Today I show you a great wall decoration with fresh roses and baby’s breath. I’m thinking often about making a so-called “flower wall”: a wall that is completely decorated with flowers! Today’s DIY goes into the same direction and can be considered as the flower wall’s little sister: The flower frame. I guide you on how to make a flower frame with chicken wire and a brad nailer.
Chicken wire is a popular craft material. I have already used wire as an alternative plug compound for flowers and made a beautiful flower arrangement with it. For the flower frame frame I use chicken wire as a holding grid for the flowers. For this I staple it to the picture frame with a brad nailer and then put roses and baby’s breath through the grid!
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With the following step by step instructions you can easily make the “flower frame” yourself!
Tools
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Here you can see what tools I used for the flower picture frame. You need a brad nailer to staple the chicken wire to the picture frame. There are all kinds of brad nailers: electric brad nailers, cordless brad nailers, or pneumatic brad nailers. I used a pneumatic brad nailer for which I required also an air compressor (not shown in the picture). In addition, I use a bolt cutter or side cutter to cut the chicken wire and flower shears to shorten the fresh flowers.
Tool | Search on |
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Brad nailer | |
Brads | |
Bolt cutter | |
Flower shears | |
I used the Japanese flower shears Okatsune 304 |
Materials
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These are the materials I used for the picture frame with flowers: a wooden picture frame, chicken wire (rabbit wire, wire mesh,…), roses and baby’s breath.
Flower frame guide
Step 1: Prepare picture frame
In the first step, I remove the back panel and the glass from the picture frame.
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Step 2: Cut the chicken wire
Then I cut the chicken wire. To do this, I put it on the picture frame to get the right size.
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Then I clip the wire with the bolt cutter.
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Step 3: Staple chicken wire to picture frame
Now you can staple the chicken wire to the picture frame.
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With my pneumatic tacker it was super fast and easy!
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The result then looks like this:
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Step 4: Cut flowers
With the flower shears I cut the stems of the fresh flowers very short.
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I leave the stems of the baby’s breath a little longer to make it easier to push them through later.
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Step 5: Put flowers through the chicken wire
The next step is just to put the flowers through the wire mesh.
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I first put the roses through the wire.
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I press them a little harder into the wire and twist them in slightly so they hold well. This is how the frame with the roses looks from behind:
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Then I fill in the gaps with the baby’s breath.
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Step 6: Cut stems
In the last step I cut off the protruding stems.
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Tip: When the flowers dry, they lose some of their fullness. You can then simply add new fresh flowers in addition to the dried ones!
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And the flower frame is ready! You can of course also do the whole thing with a huge wooden frame that fills an entire wall. You could then use this as a photo background for weddings, etc.! And of course you can also use dried flowers, paper flowers or artificial silk flowers for the flower frame!
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I hope you enjoyed this DIY as much as I did and you like the sight of the floral wall decoration!