I buy mine at the "One Dollar" shop. There's about 60 or 70 to choose from, there's non-glare pasticky stuff and real glass, all the frames are wooden or real metal - There's a few plastic frames but they're the tiny on-you-desk types. Many of the frames come with 45 degree beveled matting, but there's a shelf of standard matting sizes if you want to mix and match. And sizes range from the tiny-desk-top type all the way up to A3. Prices are not $1 dollar though as the store name would imply. They range from $1 to $6. I think there's one ornate B3 frame with gold gilding and beveled matt there for $8.
They have this same design for an A4 print with matt or a (slightly trimmed??) B4 print if you remove the matting, for $5. That includes glass, a hanging cord, 4 square flat eyelets for hanging it in portrait or landscape, and it has a large prop-foot so you could set it on a table if you wanted.
Maybe I should go into business exporting picture frames to the USA. They want $70 for it at that other site.
I use Michaels for frames also this week in my area Trendsetter Poster Frames are 1/2 off.
Sterdy Black plastic frame with glass and nice partical board back. 20x28 about $10. I print a 16x24 make a 2 inch mat all around. Looks great. Print, frame and mat less than $20.00 Makes for great x-mass gifts.
Dan Bellyk wrote:
I went to Ikea in Burlington last week and I found the frames to be very poor quality, not sure if it's different in the states but I did not want to sell my artwork with that quality.
Dan
It's true, many of their frames are very poor quality. If I buy from Ikea, I look for frames that are more sturdy in design. ...any fragile/thin-style frame at Ikea is likely to be bad.
I have already checked my local Aaron Brothers and Michael's and nothing is on sale right now. I'm looking at both framedestination.com and pictureframes.com, the latter only offers acrylic which I've never used for framing and I'm unsure about it.
If I go with framedestination.com should I expect that some of the glass will arrive broken? If I go with pictureframes.com will I regret the acrylic?
I make my own from locally available hardwoods. As simple as 1x2s---cut out the space for image and glass on the saw, mitre (usually(, perhaps deep set the image with spacers, get out the nail gun and done.
Cherry oiled and waxed with light staining works well for me.....
Jacob D wrote:
If I go with framedestination.com should I expect that some of the glass will arrive broken? If I go with pictureframes.com will I regret the acrylic?
Makes for great x-mass gifts.