DIY Art "Makeunder" for Our Front Sitting Room

Sources: Leather chairs | Curtains | Bookcases —> diy template | Photography, Ali Williamson

Let's talk about the art in our front sitting room. It's the first time in too many years to count that I pulled out my set of art school paint brushes and channeled my inner creative side in this way. The best part? These paintings were simple to make thanks to a helpful tip I tried that not only saved us a ton of money but changed the way I think about making art...

Corner Gallery Wall: How To Hang Art on a Curved Wall

We recently introduced the addition of a small gallery wall to our office decor. While our home decor is in a state of continual evolution, we're loving how this newly-filled wall of personal art makes this front room of ours feel complete (don't mind the missing turtle — you'll see him make an appearance further down in the post).

How To: Bird Nest Shadow Box Art

Over Thanksgiving, I brought back a treasured find my Aunt had given me from the land on their horse farm — this small bird's nest made almost entirely from horse hair. It made for the perfect little weekend art project!

Innovative Printing Ideas With Signazon

Image sources: tobacco sign | espresso sign | burger sign | closed sign 

Today we've partnered up with the fine folks behind Signazon to bring you a roundup of innovative and creative use ideas for their signage products. We sourced all of the images for today's roundup from the Signazon Pinterest page, where they are always pinning new ideas for product inspiration and examples of real signs their customers have made and use.

Print Instagrams on Wood & Acrylic with InstaThis

We've got some new art in the house we love and in true-to-us fashion, it involves photos we've snapped on our phones and our favorite Weimaraner!

How To: Make Giant Art Prints From Your Photos

Have you guys heard about the phenomemon of turning your own photos into giant black and white works of art for only a few bucks? We came across this concept on Pinterest one afternoon and couldn't pass up trying it out — and we're so happy we did since we now have giant and personal pieces of art hanging around the house. Today we wanted to share exactly how we did it, so you can do it too!

V is for...

Back in October as I was scrolling through all my favorite blogs in my reader, I came to a screeching halt when another Richmond blogger (shout out to Richmond Thrifter!) was talking about a huge collection of metal industrial marquee letters she'd come across at an antique shop just outside the city lines. When she said they were selling for $39 a pop, I practically got in the car that same moment.

We're Seeing Stars: Our Constellation Pumpkin

Happy Halloween guys! This day always holds special meaning for Tim and I since it's actually our anniversary — this year makes 8 years!

How to Print Instagrams & A Prinstagram Giveaway

***Update: This giveaway has ended, find the lucky winner at the bottom of the post. Stay tuned for future giveaways right here at 17 Apart! *** 

Here's the story of how we created a little wall nook gallery from some of our favorite Instagram prints. We've also got a giveaway from the fine folks at Printstagram, the awesome printing site we used to print our own Instagram photos — find all the details at the bottom of this post after we show you what we did with our prints!

How To: DIY Stump Table

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You guys, we made a table from a slice of tree stump, no joke! We mentioned tackling a DIY project we were pretty excited about weekend before last — well we finally got it finished and this is it. Here's the whole (very long) story of how this all came about and step by step instructions of exactly how it went down in the event you want to tackle making one of your own!

17 Apart Portrait by Katie Noonan

While in the city, we received a custom portrait of Tim, myself and Basil all hand drawn by one of my Etsy coworkers, Katie Noonan.