Inexpensive Botanical Wall Art

Isn’t it so nice to have a long weekend?  The extra time with my hubby and baby around all together at home was so nice.  And James has started becoming such a ham (loves to laugh and make you laugh too) that it’s great to be able to share these moments with Jimmy, instead of just soaking them in by myself when I’m alone with James.  It’s that glance we give each other like, “How could this baby be so impossibly cute?” and happy!

Aside from marveling at that cuteness, I did manage to complete a project that I’d been wanting to do for a while- add some art to our pitifully empty bedroom walls!

I love botanical prints and decided to do a grouping of 4 on the wall adjacent to our bed.  I found a book of botanical art (The Botanical Palette) for $22 (after my discount card and coupon) at Barnes & Noble and bought 4 frames (16×20 with 8×10 mat) from Aaron Brothers (again with a coupon- never shop there without one!)  They even scanned the coupon from my phone:)

To save even more money, you can print botanical art at home from your computer like my friend Courtney {A Thoughtful Place} did.  I wasn’t as patient with the website she used and I think my printer is out of colored ink!  Also, she found great frames at WalMart.  Gotta love that!

For our botanicals, I kept the color palette in the purple family, but there were so many gorgeous photographs to choose from in the book.

I liked them so much, I added two smaller versions to our master bathroom!

Now we have a nice reflection from Jimmy’s mirror and something pretty for me to look at when I leave my closet!
How pretty!

 

Adding art to the walls is really making a difference in how our home looks.  I love the fruit botanical art too and was considering adding some to the dining room or mudroom, but thought it might be overkill!

Want to share your sources for art?  It’s such a personal preference thing, but I’d love to hear what you think.

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Hi! I’m Megan, mom to a thoughtful teenager and spunky young girl. We call Houston home and recently moved into our dream home. I traded my lawyer hat to become a full-time blogger in 2010. I love sharing my passion for affordable fashion, home decor, organization, & fitness to help inspire you to take care of you!

39 Comments

  1. These are beeeeee-utiful! I have yet to meet a botanical I didn't like. Well done!
    😉
    Abby

  2. They look great! I love your bedroom wall color as well. I am loving our new botanicals and had to stop myself from putting them all over the house, too!

  3. I think it looks great! Most of our "art" is made up of family photos…whether they are very, very old heirloom portraits or new shots of the girls. 🙂 I need to incorporate more "real" art into our home. 🙂

  4. oh my gosh your kid is so cute!! and those botanical prints looks great- I have been meaning to do the same in my bedroom for a while now – thanks for sharing the printable link!

  5. Your prints look fabulous! I recently did the same thing in my bedroom. My prints came from a book as well…an OLD book that I found online for like 2 bucks!

    Don't you just love inexpensive art?!

  6. The art looks great! In my daughter's bedroom I framed some cute wrapping paper that I bought at Papyrus for $6! I love it and it was super affordable!

  7. those are beautiful and LOVE LOVE your wall color!! I sooo wanted gray in the bedroom but hubby nixed the idea. 🙁 so I painted the LR gray instead! LOL I was gonna get gray in this house one way or another!

  8. Cute picture of James in the tub! He's one happy little man. Love the artowrk. It's very pretty in your bedroom on that lovely wall color. The botanicals have a very calming feel to them.

  9. I love those…looks great, especially in the silver frames with large mattes.

    Most of my walls are photos, but that is slowly changing. I, too, frame book pages.

  10. What lovely prints. They look so pretty on your wall with the framing. Your little boy is so cute, and that smile is just darling. I know the feeling of looking at each other with a smile. I'm so glad you had a wonderful weekend.

  11. Those look great. I really love the botanicals you chose. I have a stack of animal prints I need to frame for Sterling's nursery, might just have to check out Walmart for some frames. That picture of James at the top is adorable love his white straight teeth!

  12. Your botanicals look great! I have framed book pages too! I used a coffee table book that we had for years from a well known Kentucky photographer.

  13. James is so cute! And I love those prints — so perfect for those spaces! The frames are gorgeous! And we have that clock too!

  14. While a lot of my art is original, I have some botanical prints that were made from a Smith and Hawkins calendar from several years ago!

    Great job!

    Be sure to enter my awesome $250 Giveaway from Tracy Porter!!

    xoxo
    Karena
    Art by Karena

  15. Fabulous post! I was asked to partake in Jen's ""Great Reads" too and I'm just making my way through everyone's favorite posts. Lovely blog!!

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