Lucite Framed Vintage Scarf

One of my favorite projects of our TN bedroom, was also the easiest! I’ve seen a few DIY lucite frames around, like Honey & Fitz and The Hunted Interior!

We referred mainly to Honey & Fitz tutorial, so please refer to that for the full how to. I’ll be sharing a few details here, that we found helpful as we worked.

Like Dina, we got our acrylic cut at Lowes (just be sure that it is cut properly before leaving .. they had to re cut mine) I think this is the size we got, it was simply cut in half, so we had two 24×24 pieces.

Our scarf is a vintage Vera scarf – ebay and etsy have tons, so have fun browsing! Just be mindful that the size will work with the acrylic sizes at Lowes/Home Depot, etc. I liked at least a 2″ border.

Our frame is attached on all 4 corners. To create the holes through the acrylic for the hardware, we gently drilled in REVERSE into a scrap wood block. This slowly melts the fragile acrylic versus drilling forward which is a lot rougher.  It helps prevent the acrylic from breaking. Sorry no pic! Let me know if you have any questions!

Acrylic mounts are very pricey, so we came up with with a few parts that would give a similar look. All were found at Home Depot. I originally wanted all brass parts (and spent a lot of time looking in store in and online :/) but I couldn’t find anything that would give the same look for less. So I ended up just spraying the coupling nuts gold.

We placed the a washer on the bolt, threaded it through the hole, another washer and then the coupling nut.

We did cut the bolt (with the Dremel tool) so there was about 1/4″ of the coupling nut open.

I love love love how it turned out!

Campaign dresser here

Stay tuned for more DIYs from this space soon!