After several months with nothing on the walls in the living and dining room I knew I had to get to work. We hadn’t seen anything we loved and we didn’t want to spend a fortune, so I thought, why not DIY it. I loved the idea of doing dots when I spotted this and this and I knew I wanted to do something similar. We could tackle it as a couple, it fits in with our home, and we could call it our own. If I had done this project in my office I probably would have gone with the bright colors (so fun!), but since we did it in our more neutral color living room, we used more muted tones.
Overall, we both love how it turned out. The colors work so well in our living room and the added gold (looks yellow in photos) really pops with the other gold accents in the room. Totally worth the time and money!
{from left to right- teal, brown, tan, white, gold, black}
{we cut about 3/4″ circles}
Materials (all bought at Michaels except the potatoes):
3 white canvases (we used 18X24)
Paint brushes
Acrylic paints
Potatoes
Pencil
Ruler
Plastic cups and plates (to mix paints)
I followed the directions listed here. The one thing we made a mistake on was drawing horizontal lines and not just tiny marks. We thought the tiny marks would take too long to measure out, when in fact, it probably has taken longer to erase the pencil lines. And, lets just say, pencil doesn’t erase well on canvas.
A couple of notes:
- The potato rounds do not need to be cut perfectly. We had trouble with this at first, but then realized the more imperfect they were, the better.
- All materials cost about $100.
- Have fun mixing the colors.
- Since we had two people working on it, we cut our time in half from 7-8 to 4 hours.
- Each dot is about 2 inches apart.
- The gold looks yellow in pictures but really pops in person.
LOVE the colors you chose!
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Great DIY! Painting is always so therapeutic and way cheaper than buying a bunch of wall art.
Looks so good! Very West Elm-ish! Love it!
Omigosh, I’m so impressed, this turned out so cute!! I am not very crafty so anything DIY scares me but I love what a great wall decoration this is and not crazy expensive! How fun that you’ll always look at them though and know that you did it together!
What a great DIY! Thanks for sharing! We have an empty wall in our living room and I’m still looking for the perfect thing to put on. Maybe we have to try that, too.
Painting with potatoes reminds of elementary school when we did this in our art class
what a fun diy project! i need to do this in my room, i’m thinkin gray and yellow
Chioma
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I like this. Very clean and simple…p.s., I have the sme bookshelf but just recently painted it gold.
That looks like fun, and it turned out amazing!
So cute! I love it!
I am ABSOLUTELY trying this! I love that it’s personal and relatively easy. It would be a good project to work on after work for a few nights.
I love this! I even showed my boyfriend and he thought it was cool!
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Love it!! Looks super fun and I LOVE DIY, but I’m not quite artistic enough to paint something, so this is perfect! Thanks!
I LOVE how these turned out, and it is even more special since you made it together as a couple. I think the OCD in me would have a hard time “randomizing” the colors enough! haha
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This turned out great! Love the colors you chose too. Isn’t it so satisfying to display your own art?! I was so proud of mine.
Thanks for the link back!