If you’re trying to figure out how to frame a poster cheap without a frame, I get it. The poster sat rolled up in its cardboard tube for four months. I wasn’t dropping $60 on a frame for a $12 print, so I kept looking for a way to frame a poster cheaply without a frame … Read more
The frame fell off at 2 a.m. A loud slap against the hardwood, then silence, then me standing in the hallway in the dark trying to figure out what just broke. One frame, face-down, three feet from where I’d hung it about twenty hours earlier. It only held a $6 print. It still stung, and … Read more
The tapestry hit the floor at 1 a.m. Three months into my lease, right after I’d finally gotten the fold marks to relax. A single thumbtack gave out, and I stood there at midnight with a roll of painter’s tape, doing the math on whether a strip of fabric that cost less than dinner was … Read more
The panel fell off at 2 a.m. A loud slap against the hardwood floor woke me up three hours of Saturday work, undone in one second. That was attempt number two at figuring out how to style a blank wall behind a TV in an apartment where drilling isn’t an option. And it taught me … Read more
The mirror was 38 pounds. My stud finder found nothing but hollow wall for four feet in either direction. And my lease had a very clear “patch every hole before you move out” clause, which meant I needed to figure out how to hang a heavy mirror without studs, and without leaving a hole I … Read more