White on White = Washout

This will be a simple post. The problem I have with being a renter is always WHITE WALLS! I hate them, but I am forced to live with them. So what happens when you have white decor to hang on the walls? If you put white on white it washes it out and you might miss a lot of the detail and it might take away from your decor.

I found a way to not only make the white stand out, but made it look gorgeous too!

My guest bathroom upstairs is somewhat beach themed. So I have these two white-framed pictures with a shell and a sand dollar. I took the same idea as I showed in the video I posted a while ago with staining a few small boards of wood and gluing them together.

The difference in this project was that I wanted to add the aged sanded look without doing all the sanding. This was supposed to be a quick project, I really didn't want to put too much into a simple background for a wall hanging. So I took a paint brush and barely dipped the brush in the paint so it was pretty dry and just lightly swept it over the stained boards. This gave it the look I was going for with half the effort.

TIP OF THE DAY: The paint I used was purchased as a Pint from Lowes. Near their paint desk they actually sell paint that people mixed and then didn't want for a discount. I only paid $2.50!

Here was the result:

Lastly, I just screwed in a couple hangers and connected a wire between them to hang on the wall and measured and put two nails in the board to hand these two pictures. See...imagine what these would look like directly on the wall! Totally washed out.