My lease said no wallpaper. And I didn’t want to bother with painting. So natrually my solution was to order yards of handprint fabric, and stretch them over wall-sized canvases, and then hang those from the walls like paintings. Final dimensions were 8x4’, but you could size these any way you like, so long as the width of the fabric streches over the wooden support enough to be stapled at the back.
Things you will need:
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A drill
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Kreg pocket hole jig - with appopriately sized pocket hole screws
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1x3 Lumber (select peices if you can afford it, I used framing/KD lumber and regretted it because boards were not totally straight)
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Wood glue
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A stapler (I got an electronic arrow model. You’re going to be doing a lot of stapling.)
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A means of hanging these on the wall. I experimented with a few things. Metal French cleats seem most sensible. But I wanted flush, and once you stretch the fabric taut over woods already prone to warp, you’re going to have to anchor it at the bottom as well. Flushmount magnets were good enough for this. but there are also interlocking clips that work ok.
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Many yards of fabric - I chose to put a layer of muslin over the frames first to help with opacity.
