Want to make your paintings look more professional? I'm gonna show you a cheap and easy way to build a floating frame for all the canvases that you paint right now So my wife has asked me to frame this painting. Do you see it back there? The whale? Yes I painted that a long time ago at a paint party for one of our friends birthdays I love this painting It's probably my favorite thing I've ever painted in my entire life So let's measure it figure out how big it is and get to building this frame So let's say that this represents our painting We know that our painting is 20 inches tall by 16 inches wide But that doesn't actually tell us everything we need in order to get this frame built because those measurements are only for the inside of the frame Because that's where the painting is going to sit So what we need to know in order to measure is the outside of the frame because You can't measure from the inside of a frame. There's nothing to grab onto it can't be exact and we want it to be Totally exact so what you need to do is actually really easy You take this inside measurement which is 16 inches in this case and you add the thickness of the frame on both sides So this frame is three quarters of an inch wide on both sides three quarters of an inch times two is an inch and a half So we're gonna add an inch and a half to this 16 inch measurement making the outside of the frame 17 and a half inches And adding that inch and a half onto the 20 inch sides gives you 21 and a half inch on the other Now that we have the dimensions for the outside of the frame It's just a matter of marking them onto the wood and using our miter box to cut them by hand Now if you don't know how to or don't remember how to use a miter box in a miter saw There's a wonderful step-by-step explanation of the entire process in another DIY video of mine that shows you how to build a wooden Organizer tray. I'll make sure to link that at the end of this video At this point we just want to do a dry layout to make sure that everything fits the way it's supposed to and all the angles are correct Now because we use the miter box. I know the 45s are right and It looks like they are perfect Very nice, okay now The thing that's going to make this look like it's floating is it's not going to be down all the way in the frame It's going to be elevated and the way we're going to do that This first we're going to place this in the frame And you'll see there's a little bit of extra room around it That's absolutely meant to be there. This is a floating frame So we want it to look like not only it's floating up, but it's floating inside of the frame So we're going to do is find out How much room is left in the frame? It's simply measuring this way that is Just over three quarters of an inch that's actually perfect and the reason it's perfect is because our frame material is three quarters of an inch wide So by cutting out 12 inch strips of that we can mount them inside the frame and that will push the canvas up That three quarters of an inch we need to make it look like it's floating So being that the scrap pieces we just cut are going to be the things that are underneath the canvas itself holding them in place They're going to be in shadow because they're inside and behind that canvas So we're just going to hit them with some black spray paint to make sure they're completely invisible Sometimes gone by now and the black spray paint has all dried so what we're going to do next is a bit of a glue up We're going to put each of the sides of the frame with one of the black pieces against it Glue them together and stack them all together and Vice those all together like this I also added a giant weight on top of these just to make sure that everything was nice and flat Okay, the glue is all completely dry and ready to move on now that's the end of phase one of the glue up Now we need to take those apart and get them put together as the frame itself Which I'll show you just next now we're only using wood glue for this if you worry about that go on to any one of the millions of people on YouTube Who've already done the test the glue and the wood bond together stronger than the wood does to itself so the wood fibers That are grown together in nature are actually less strong together than the bond that's created by wood glue Which I think is crazy, but absolutely true and this isn't gonna be something that we're gonna be using all the time It's going to hang on a wall. So wood glue is plenty strong for this Let's get to it shall we after checking to make sure that everything is nice and square I'm gonna take a second just to lay the canvas inside Check the spacing and then drill out the four holes for the mounting screws that will attach our frame to our canvas Then we're just gonna give this whole thing a little while to dry Phase two of our glue up is now done so it's time to remove the clamps hit the whole frame with a little bit of sandpaper Just to make sure all of the sharp edges are broken and everything looks nice Then I'm gonna take it outside and spray it with a clear coat just to add a little bit of protection So in full disclosure, I busted out this block plane also to try on rounding the corners I've never used one before and it actually was awesome I'll definitely be coming back to this and using it in future videos Now that the three coats of enamel are all dry It's time to attach the frame to the canvas and add mounting hardware so that we can hang it In order to make sure that the canvas was centered when I added the mounting hardware I just cut out some really simple cardboard spacers and added them around the sides then flipped it over Add the screws and it looks like it's coming along really well So the canvas has been framed and hung in the corner of our dining room It looks absolutely amazing if you like this project and you want to do some of your own go check out Burke makes stuff We have lots of simple inexpensive easy projects that you can absolutely do if you need some advice for one I would watch that one right there and if you don't like that one so much definitely watch this one and if you haven't Subscribe to this channel yet, which would be absolutely insane make sure to click this right here I'll see you next time Wednesday four o'clock