DIY Octopus Art

DIY | May 7, 2014

UPDATE: Please refer to the updated tutorial here.
If you follow me on instgram (@kirstenkrason) you saw that Erin (@erin.m.morgan) and I recently installed a nautical playroom. It looks so cute and I can’t wait to share all the pictures with all of you! Just like any project we had a budget to work with so we wanted to incorporate some DIY ideas.  Today I’m going to share with you how we took a shower curtain and turned it into art!
A few years ago I bought this shower curtain for Jett’s Bathroom.
I’ve always loved it. The graphic is so amazing that it always seemed to me like there must be a way to turn it into art!
When Erin and I started this nautical playroom design we decided to give it a try!
Erin is much handier than me so she figured out how to put the art together once we got out to the install. Here are her instructions!
The shower curtain was 72×72″ so I wanted to leave 2″ on every side
to have room to wrap it over the wood. I went to Home Depot and got 2
2″x1″x70″ for the top and the bottom of the frame then I got 4 2″x1″x68″
for the sides of the frame and the middle supports. Home Depot cut the wood to the desired length for free!
For the frame assembly
I laid all the wood out with the 1″ side facing up, and screwed each
end of the side pieces and the middle pieces  into the top and bottom of
the frame.
I then ironed the shower curtain and laid it over
the top of the frame.
 I nailed in the top first and then stretched it
to where I wanted it on the bottom and nailed in the bottom. Then nailed
in the sides last.
I nailed about every 6-8″. The nailing gave it a
more industrial look instead of a staple gun which could get sloppy. It
was super easy with 2 people, it took us about an hour to make it and
hang it!

 

Thanks Erin for that easy explanation!After they made the piece Erin and Lindsey just hung it up on the wall with a few nails.

It is seriously such a statement in the room!

 

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  7. We did the same thing with a marimekko fabric shower curtain (because it was so much cheaper than the tuuli trees fabric) a couple years ago and I love it. Big impact low cost and if the kids get it dirty it wipes up easily lol. Love the octopus!

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  38. Oh My Goodness!!!! This is the most amazing idea/project I've ever seen. I have a massive wall with windows on both sides. With cathedral ceilings, everything I've tried gets lost. You are a God send. I can't thank you enough.

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  42. T hanks so much. I have a piece of fabric that is 57 by 47. It’s a beautiful piece if art and I want to frame it. I knew what I wanted but could find how until I ran across your site. Again thank you so much…. Now all I have to do is convince my hubby that he wants to help me do it…….

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  44. How did you wrap the corners? Also, did you line the fabric up to the edge of the frame or did you wrap it all the way around the wood pieces and then nail?

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    1. So the corners are folded tight so there is no buldge in the corner. It almost looks envelope like on the corners. It is wrapped to the back part of the wood rods and fastened using a staple gun. We will actually be doing a more in depth tutorial soon on our blog 🙂

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  46. Have you tried using a tapestry from Society 6? They are less expensive but I am curious of the weight of the tapestry fabric vs. the weight of the shower curtain fabric.

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    2. Hey Ashley! I just did a tapestry from Society 6 and I folded the tapestry around poster board for extra support before stapling/nailing it into the frame. So the tapestry would pull on the think cardboard instead of just on the nails/staples alone. I cut the poster board to be long stripes of one inch long.

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  49. You wrote that you nailed the top of the curtain and then the bottom and then did the sides last, but the pictures shows you nailing the sides before the bottom. Which one method works better? I’m doing a tapestry that doesn’t have a top or bottom (per say it’s a design, not a picture) so the exactness doesn’t matter.

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  51. Thank you, success!! I didn’t get the canvas shower curtain so when I put it on the frame it was a bit see through. Ended up stapling a white sheet down first. Also my dimensions were smaller but it still looks fabulous!! Thank you for the great idea!!

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