One of my favorite budget decorating secrets is to find frames at thrift stores and then cut the mats yourself. A one hundred dollar investment in a good mat cutter will make cutting your own mats a cinch and will save you on nightmarishly (and needlessly) expensive custom framing.
I also love the idea of framing cool note cards. You can easily find greeting cards (which are essentially a miniature high quality print) for $3 to $5 dollars. I scored a whole box of these Charlie Harper note cards on sale for $8 at Anthropologie.
Then I got really lucky and found three frames with nice clean mats at Goodwill.
I simply replaced the cheesy maid prints with these cool birds by Charlie. A little Windex and Voila- Instant office art for a total cost of $16.
I'm feeling inspired already.
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