Budget Decorator: A Most Affordable Gallery Wall

Wall art has a big impact on the design of your home. Whether it’s a picture, print, photograph, quilt — you name it — it can reveal your taste, your point of view, your color preferences, your family history and even your sense of humor.

But one of the things that can be a shock when you’re finding art for your home is how expensive it can be. I’ve had the experience, for example, of discovering a fantastic print at a garage sale for a very reasonable price, then needing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when I got the estimate from the do-it-yourself frame shop.

But I’ve found a solution to this problem, and I’m going to share it with you: calendar art.

The high cost of art is driven home whenever I get an itch to do one of my favorite types of displays: a collection of six, eight or a dozen prints, all grouped in identical frames, like the ones in this living room.

They might be botanicals …

… or Audubon prints …

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