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Ugly Frame and Canvas Painting Transformed into Vintage Bike Advertising

I had this ugly painting hanging in my storage room not because I thought it looked good there, but because I’ve been holding onto it to make something of it… sometime… well I’m glad to say that after, oh about 5 or 6 years, that time has come! 

I have been working on transforming the family room in the lower level of ‘Our House’ lately, and needed some art, so I took that framed canvas and re-made it into something.

1 1 before and after collage

Isn’t the painting in the ‘before’ so ugly? It looks like a big tree in the background crossed with a mushroom cloud and exploded on the canvas… I have no idea where the artist was going with that, but as you can see on the right, I drastically changed the way it looked. 

Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…

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Our House… Coast to Coast Goodness on the Sunporch

Probably about 12 years ago, while traveling in Northern Minnesota, I stopped at a little antique shop and found this Coast-to-Coast store display shelf:

It sits behind the chaise, in front of one of the East facing windows on the sunporch, at ‘Our House’. READ ON…

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