Let's see some Garage "art"....need ideas please.

[russlaferrera]

View attachment 12909 This picture was painted by my son It is a famous reproduction of what I do not remember. Need a place to hang it so the garage wall looked like a good spot.

 

[winks2]

I saw this up at a satellite office of ours that does oil hauling, this is a poster for truck drivers to abide by for hasmat face mask reasons. Anyway's i thought it was hilarious and here it is...

 

[Hiker]

Most of the framed racing posters are originals. I've been collecting them for almost 30 years.

 

[C_F]

Looks really good, especially your centerpiece!

 

[04 Navi]

Here's mine. My wife got it for me from Garage Scenes. The pictures were taken right after I hung it. It hangs better now.

 

[hrm2k]

Found this thread very interesting. My friend and I took the cheap route for art on the wall. Each of us had 15 to 20 years worth of car magazines. We went through and took all the pictures from every magazine. We put them on the wall in a giant collage. Some are 3 page foldouts...some are 2 page foldouts and the rest run from 4" X 5" down to 1" x 1". It was a lot of work but a lot of fun as well. As an extra added bonus, the girls in the welding supply calendars are cut out of the original background and end up sitting on the front of cars that are the same scale. Cheap...you bet. We call it the manic wall. When someone visits our garage, they stand and stare at the wall....a lot of fun...and not very hard to do.

 

[ol55]

Here's a couple of "art" items I want to mount on the outside of my garage.

 

[SteveL]

Those are so cool!!!!!! I am vey jealous right now of your signs and garage. Looks awsome! Out of curiousity, what did those set you back? I'm guessing $200-$400 a piece?

 

[ol55]

The signs cost me $200 each. The prices for those things varies, but I think I did OK. I'm still searching for deals. Ebay actually has some pretty good deals ocasionally, but usually they must be picked up because of their size.

 

[bthrb4u]

http://hotrod.artehouse.com/perl/home.pl
^^^lots and lots of good stuff there^^^
or inf your into cartoony type art and have a sence of humor (not work safe) then check out coopstuff.com

brody

 

[TrixR4Kids]

Man I just found an awesome website with some really great stuff, I think some of the prices are a bit outrageous but I'm cheap. All kinds of stuff, click the link for info. The links are on the left when you get inside.

http://biker-wear.biker-crossroads.com/Novelty-Signs.html

 

[pirate]

There was a message here that gave a website and also a phone number for the The Sign Guy who produced street signs and such. His website is no longer up nor does his telephone number work. Is he out of business completely or still around? Where was he located? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[utah997]

Trix, Lots of great stuff. Thanks for posting!

 

[Homebody]

There was a message here that gave a website and also a phone number for the The Sign Guy who produced street signs and such. His website is no longer up nor does his telephone number work. Is he out of business completely or still around? Where was he located? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

Not sure, I do know I seen the guy (or someone that uses the name) at a show in Jefferson, WI last fall. Had some really cool stuff and also did custom work so I'm guessing it's the same guy.

 

[hoopty388]

I plan on covering the parts of my garage that don't have peg board on them with the collage idea. One thing I didn't see mentioned that is my favorite garage art is hubcaps! You can buy singles for next to nothing since they aren't in a set, every junk yard in the world has a but load of 'em, and since alot people chase billet rims anymore, the prices have fallen even more. plus I think some of the old ones are as classy as the cars the were designed to go on.

 

[cb804]

Just stumbled across this forum... great ideas. I did one wall in the garage with old signs (some are real, some reproductions).

 

[thetastelingers]

http://hotrod.artehouse.com/perl/home.pl
^^^lots and lots of good stuff there^^^
or inf your into cartoony type art and have a sence of humor (not work safe) then check out coopstuff.com

brody

Thanks for the link. Just ordered a pinup.

 

[PASSMORE]

cb804 - beautiful Z8! One of my all time favorites along with the M1.

 

[camarojoe]

Added a few things this past weekend...All original New Old Stock 60's Chevy Showroom stuff.

 

[kobuzz]

I prefer car parts for my wall art.

 

[Mayor]

I picked up a few posters on ebay of BMW's for around $20.00 a pop. Not bad till I took them to the frame shop and had them mounted. After getting three done I came up with a better plan and made a few my self out of sales catalogs.

 

[Scottz5]

your fan is sick!

 

[Kevin54]

picked up a few posters on ebay of BMW's for around $20.00 a pop. Not bad till I took them to the frame shop and had them mounted. After getting three done I came up with a better plan and made a few my self out of sales catalogs.

Shop around at WallyWorld etc. for frames. Quite a few times they will have sales on them. Or hit garage sales that have kids that used to have posters. Yopu can get frames real reasonable with glass included. A lot of times department stores will change out their stuff and get rid of pics with frames. Pick them up cheap. A frame shop will make you leave a limb or two.

 

[v8garage]

I prefer car parts for my wall art.

Yeah, serves two functions that way. Storage and art.