Vintage Clothes Hanger/Frame Photo Display

January 21, 2022

Photo of a picture frame attached to a vintage wooden hanger.

One of my favorite older projects started out with a vintage wooden clothes hanger and an 8" x 10" picture frame.

I still like the project, but I decided to give it a small facelift.

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Photo of a frame painted in Heirloom White.

This is the 8" x 10" project frame painted with Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Latex Paint in Heirloom White. Long before chalk paint, this was my go to paint. (I even painted my old bedroom set with it, after priming it with a shellac based white Zinsser primer.)

One of my children's grad photos was in this heirloom white frame.

For the original project, I painted the frame with Painter's Touch Latex Paint in Flat Black.

Photo of a distressed black photo frame.

I then distressed the frame with 100 grit sandpaper, leaving a very light wood stain (along with a little Heirloom White paint) in the distressed areas.

I then used a Varathane Wood Stain Touch-Up Marker For Dark Walnut to darken the distressed areas of the frame.

Photo of a distressed black frame with walnut stain marker.

At the time, I liked this look.

I added a black and white photo of a little girl riding a pony at a carnival (circa 1960) to my frame.

Photo of a metal label frame with 1960 tag.

I added a metal tag holder to a vintage wooden hanger with nails. "1960" was printed in Special Elite font from Picmonkey onto card stock, cut out, and slid into the metal holder.