Baget with own hands

Decorate the house with pictures, especially your work - incredibly stylish, especially if you correctly draw the plot and choose the appropriate baguette. But often products are dusted because of the high cost of their design. Do not wait, because make a baguette with your own hands - not difficult. How exactly does such a process look like that you need to realize your artistic idea, and other equally important useful tips for making a frame for landscapes, still lifes and other variations of the art canvas, we have prepared for you in this article.

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We select the material

The first step is to find out which workshops you can buy baguette with, by visiting there and picking a suitable option.

Before starting the design work, you should choose a baguette, and accordingly - understand how it happens. Most often in stores, a ready-made baguette can be found in three versions.

Polyurethane This is a very light and cheap material that can be easily changed. In addition, it tolerates the effects of moisture, it is flexible, it will last a long time. An additional plus - it can be given any shade.

Plastic

Plastic products can imitate wood, have high protection against moisture and are much cheaper than wood. But this material looks good only from afar.

Plastic is noticeable, and definitely makes the product in such a frame cheaper. Also to the minuses, many include the non-naturalness of the material.

Wooden baguette

The frame made of wood is an ageless classic. Let's try to figure out what it can be done with our own hands:

1. Skirting board is an inexpensive and convenient option for creating simple compositions. Of course, the skirting board is not suitable for chic items or the style of an expensive interior, but for small sketches, cartoons, it is quite convenient. In addition, the application of it in such an unusual form will transform the product, and it is very difficult to recognize it even without additional decor.
2. You can also use a casing with a width of 50-70 mm.
3. Of course, you can use a ready-made baguette made of wood - this is a more expensive option, but also more beautiful.

Important! Of course, frames from a tree look much more elegant than previous versions. They are quite resistant to various kinds of mechanical damage, are environmentally friendly, but their cost in comparison with plastic and foam products is much greater. Also, such products are afraid of water.

Metal frames

Modern design of premises assumes the presence of unusual materials in it. Therefore today, metal frames are also popular. More often such frameworks use for presentations, exhibitions or registration of offices, but also at home such product can look quite organically, if the design of a premise and a picture do not contradict style of a framework.

Important! For your first frame, it's best to choose an inexpensive polystyrene, because even if you spoil the first product, it will not hit hard on your budget.

After selecting the material, you can proceed to the design.

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Drawing a picture of

Before you start making a baget with your own hands, you need to prepare all the tools. We will need the following:

• hacksaw to cut the parts;
• stool - to control the cutting of the exact angle of 45 degrees;
• pencil, ruler or tape measure for marking;
• sandpaper for stripping;
• adhesive for product angles;
• brushes and paint if the frame is painted;
• dense cardboard, plywood - for the design of the back wall;
• the glass to fit the frame.

Important! Depending on the material from which the baguette is made by hand, it is necessary to select the appropriate glue and paint. So, for wood products a good option will be the use of carpentry glue and acrylic paints.

Size

How the picture will be perceived depends on the size of the baguette. Small pictures are usually placed in wide frames, large - depending on the room in which the interior will be located.

Important! To correctly determine the required footage, you can use the following formula: measure the side, add 6 cm to all the bevels and one more centimeter to the grooves. Accordingly - a length of 15 cm will take 22 cm baguette.

Next, you can start creating a framework.

Steps

To skip anything in the question of how to make a baguette for a picture with your own hands, we will describe the step-by-step creation process:

1. Remove the dimensions from the product to determine what size we need a frame.
2. Determine whether we need glass. The relevance of the glass is due to how fragile the product is and how long it should be kept without damage. Remember that when using glass, the grooves in the frame should be deeper.
3. If you have blanks, you can begin to cut them to the dimensions that we shot in the first paragraph. For these purposes, a cutting tool - a stool - is perfect. It makes smooth joints, thanks to cutting parts at an angle of exactly 45 degrees.
4. If there is no header on the frame, first cut them out.
5. When the elements are ready, you can connect them together by glue and fixing the corners with a clamp.

Important! The picture frame for the picture with your own hands is simple, but the beginner will have to try to make all the details perfectly even and fit together.

And if there are gaps between the joints, you need to remove them. Next, we will analyze how this can be done.

Remove the clearances

To remove the gap:

1. You need to make small wood shavings( for this purpose you can use a wooden skewer) and mix the shavings with the glue to get a consistency of the paste.
2. The paste should be gently rubbed into the slot and allowed to dry.
3. If necessary, add more.
4. After the whole procedure, dried up sawdust with glue should be tinted with acrylic in the color of the whole frame.

Next, you can begin to mount the picture in a frame.

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Install the picture

If the picture is written on a flat solid surface( cardboard, Whatman), then there will be no special difficulties how to arrange a picture in a baguette with your own hands. But with a soft surface of the product, for example embroidery on canvas, you must first pull the work.

How to draw a picture?

To get started, we need a ruler, thick cardboard, scissors and double-sided scotch:

1. We measure the dimensions of the product, leaving half a centimeter for the part that goes into the baguette.
2. Cut the cardboard of the required area and gently bend the fabric, controlling the tension.
3. From the side of the canvas we glue the adhesive tape, and the second part of the adhesive layer is opened at the very last moment, when all the tension has already been checked.
4. After the work done, the product is left to "rest" for 1-2 days to check how tight it is stretched.

Important! When deformations appear, the edges are pulled over.

That the product looked beautiful and did not deteriorate over time - it is hidden under the glass. Consider how to do this.

Finishing stage

To cut glass yourself, you will need a measuring tool, a glass cutter and gloves. The required dimensions can be determined very simply: measure the frame with internal grooves, and you will get a clear contour of the future glass.

In order to assemble the whole picture, it is necessary to put the product on the cut glass, fix it in small nails, and close the inside with thick cardboard or plywood, and install the fasteners.

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We choose the right: advice

Do not forget that the choice of baguette is very important, because it will depend not only on how the product looks in it, but also the overall interior of the room.

Design

Baguette by your own hands must necessarily be combined with the design of the room where you plan to place the picture. Pay attention to the color, structure of the material, as well as its decorative elements.

Agree that a soft pink frame with stucco will look ridiculous in a modern interior in the style of Hi-tech, and a simple monochrome frame will be stranger in luxurious rooms with elements of mahogany and gold.

Please note that the frame connects the interior and the picture.

Important! Some of the products need an additional decor - passport, with which the product looks much more interesting.

Color

The color of your frame depends on how much the product looks good in it.

There is one rule that most framing companies use:

1. The frame should be one-half light or darker than the main color of the picture.
2. Or be the same shade with the color that is present on the product in small quantities.

Important! Take into account the color temperature of the product. To warm tones you need to select warm shades of the frame, and vice versa.

Construction

Profiles come in different designs, which need to be considered when choosing along with color, material and design.

Classic baguette

Frame made of classic baguette, visually makes the image deeper, similar to the view through the window. This is due to the fact that the top of the baguette is thicker, and the narrowest part of it adheres to the picture.

Reverse baguette

This option is the opposite, narrow to the outer edge and wide to the image. Thanks to such a design, the image in the frame seems to be pushed forward.

Important! This technique is often used by decorators, when framed in the mirror.

Flat baguette

This is a profile that has almost no difference in thickness, respectively - does not at all distract attention from the image. In such a baguette collages, posters, bright and contrast images look good.

Restoration

If you already have a frame, but eventually it lost its appearance, you can restore it:

• clean up the details;
• plaster all cracks;
• paint the surface again.

The dried out frame is decorated according to your wishes: varnish, impregnations, paints and other elements.

Important! The paint should be chosen on the basis of safety and covering ability. Pay attention to acrylic paints - they do not emit fumes and are good for any room.

Choose a frame for the picture is easy, if you know the basic rules for combining colors and decor in the interior. Harder to make a baguette with your own hands. Master class, decorator tips and our article will certainly help you in creating it. If you work carefully and follow all the recommendations, then with a square or rectangular frame you will surely cope. Creative success!