Our walls are pretty bare. Shy of a few of my old college paintings and a couple prints, we don’t have much hanging around. We don’t like cluttered, busy walls anyway, but you have to have something on the walls otherwise it looks too…well, too migrant. Bare walls work if you have some sort of Zen theme going with minimalist furniture and bamboo floors, but we don’t. We’re pretty average folks with an average house. So in an attempt to find something meaningful for our walls without having to go the large poster/print route, I looked at what we have to work with.

And we have a lot of CDs. Our generation has seen a lot of technology change when it comes to music and we’re not even halfway through life. I know you all still have a box somewhere with cassettes in it and needless to say there’s a few shelves of CDs somewhere too. It’s safe to say we have way more MP3s these days than we do CDs, and we do most of our music listening on the computer, so the CDs have just become clutter. Recently though I thought about hanging up CD covers as art. We both love our music and the CDs weren’t doing anything else.

I think album covers as wall art (CD or otherwise) is a good solution to get use out of something that otherwise has no purpose anymore. It’s easy, clean, and shows off your love and tastes for music. Not to mention some album covers are considered art in their own right, so it’s not that far fetched. The trick, it turned out, was finding frames for the little buggers.

Compact disc album covers are square. Most small frames are designed for standard photos, which are rectangles. Going to a craft store or even Target didn’t find us the frames we needed. No, we found just the right size frames at the Dollar Store…but of course! We didn’t go to the Dollar Store looking for frames, but while there noticed some that were just the right size. They’re glass front frames so there’s no “frame” around the album, and it looks pretty nice.

This is still a work in progress, but even with only four covers up the staircase it looks pretty good. About two to four more covers to complete the journey should be enough. Now the hard part is picking which albums to feature. But then again, it’s convenient enough that we can change them whenever we like.

So if you have some bare spots on your walls and need something small to fill the void, consider your favorite (or best looking) album covers. An easy afternoon project.

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