Diy Creating Your Own Floating Frame For Canvas

Use a mitered 45 degree angle and cut four pieces 2 sides and 2 top bottom pieces.

Diy creating your own floating frame for canvas.

Make sure the joints align perfectly. This diy wood frame elevates the look of canvas art plus you can customize the measurements to fit your existing piece. If your canvas depth is thicker adjust the width of the frame or the depth of the cradle. Step 3 cut your frame.

It s just called a kiln dried wood board if you re searching for it at lowe s. Sand more if needed. The size and width of the diy floating frame are entirely up to you. For this project we used red oak in a 1 3 4 x 1 2 size.

1 x 2 lengths of wood in actuality. Sand the inner edge of the frame for a perfect fit. Step 5 test fit your frame. Next time you re struggling to choose a frame consider making your own.

This inexpensive painting 40 on ebay needed a frame but i didn t want to invest the money in an expensive custom job. Step 4 fine tune your angle by sanding. This particular painting was done on a masonite board but the plan can be modified for wrapped canvas as well. Here s how to make an easy diy floating frame.

My canvas is 3 4 inch thick and the 1 x 2s measure 3 4 inches thick which made the frame and canvas flush. While a regular canvas frame would hug tight against the canvas a float frame has an intentional gap all the way around to make the canvas look like it s floating inside the frame. A gap between the art and frame gives the appearance of floating artwork for a high end look. I think that the float frame or floater or floating frame as i ve heard them called is a particularly stylish way to display canvas art from paintings to canvas photo prints also check out my video on how to stretch your own canvas.

Remember measure twice cut once. After doing a little research i came up with a diy floating frame that s simple and modern and very easy to make. The thing i particularly like about float frames is that they re easy to build look great and they re pretty versatile as far as framing different. Diy 10 canvas floating frame april 16 2020 diy projects back with part 2 of my diy landscape art project make sure to check out yesterday s post first if you missed my painting tutorial.