I have had this canvas on my wall for a while now and I absolutely love the painting, but it needed a frame to look complete in the space. Frames can often times be extremely expensive and I could not find one that worked for my canvas so I decided to make one myself.

You will need

canvas
tambour
poplar wood

The canvas dimensions were measured out to be 24” x 48”.

I knew that I wanted a 1/4” gap all around for my frame, so I measured out the cuts I needed to fit my specific canvas. This will vary depending on your painting, but for reference, my final dimensions of the frame were 25¼” x 49¼”.

My cut list was as follows:

Poplar wood (for back pieces) - 90° cuts
- 25¼” (2 pieces)
- 46¼” (2 pieces)
Tambour (for edge pieces) - (45° cuts)
- 25¼” (2 pieces)
- 46¼” (2 pieces)

That being said, this is how I personally figured out my measurements so you can do the same to your canvas size!

Now to make my individual pieces of the frame, I used my poplar wood to create the laying frame that the canvas would be on top of, and the tambour wood was attached together to create the vertical pieces that will be sticking out giving the frame illusion.