I was at Home Depot the other day and grabbed an embarrassing number of paint chips. I don’t know why, but every time I get paint chips I feel like I’m like I’m the paint chip version of the Hamburgular, fiendishly stuffing paint chips into my purse like a crazy person and running out of the store like I stole something.
Anyway, I started thinking about what we were going to go with all those samples once we picked out a color. The answer: use them for wall art! You’ll need to make a few trips to the store to collect all the chips you’ll need (or ask for discontinued samples), but it’ll be worth it.
Pimped out wall gallery
from L to R:
- Paint strip wallpaper (via Design*Sponge)
- Paint chip collage (via Greenwala)
- Paint chip pop art [includes tutorial!] (via Re-Nest)
- Paint chip garland [Can you imagine having a whole wall of these? Awesome.] (via CraftGossip)
- Framed paint chips (via Apartment Therapy)
- I shouldn’t have mentioned this because it’s not really accessible, but it’s cool. Paint chip art by Tim Fraser Brown (via Funky Downtown)
- Paint chip entryway art [by Stacey Ann Longenecker] (via Flickr)
- Paint chip accent wall (via Sara Says Awesome)
- No picture, but check out this wall art by Jamie Murphey on Flickr
It’ll take some time to gather your paint chips and to lay out your design, but with patience and some removable tape, anything is possible! Best of all this is free and you can attached the chips with tape or poster tack, so this is a real option for college students and renters.
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holy cow that’s an awesome idea
Such a great idea!