NakedArt
What comes in the kit — five pine stretcher bars and a staple gun
An assembled stretcher corner, the staple gun and the edge of a painted canvas ready to stretch
Close-up of the stretcher's side — canvas folded over and stapled, the still-loose part of the painting beside it
The finished stretched painting on the wall, seen from the side

An add-on for your painting

Frame kit for your painting

€39.00

You painted it together. Now hang it where it'll remind you every day of the night you made it. Everything you need is in the box.

Choose a size

In the box:

Frame 120 × 90 cmFour pine bars you press together with your hands. No glue, no screws, no swearing.

Crossbar for the middleSo the painting doesn't go wavy a month from now.

Staple gun and staplesYes, in the box — nothing to borrow and nothing to buy on the side.

Wedges and hangersThe wedges pull the canvas tight again if it ever goes slack. Tap the hangers into the top bar.

InstructionsWritten in plain language, step by step. No technical drawings.

“So where do we hang it?”

The large one goes above the sofa, the smaller ones in the bedroom or hallway.

A person on a green sofa holds up a pink and black painting on a 120 × 90 cm frame
The same pink and black painting being hung on a wall above a metal trolley with a lamp
120 × 90 cm
A person on a navy sofa holds a blue and black painting on a 50 × 40 cm frame in front of her face
The same blue and black painting being hung on a wall by a window, next to wooden shelves
50 × 40 cm2 frames in the kit

Three steps and it's on the wall

One afternoon, no test holes drilled in your wall

1

Put the frame together

The four bars press into each other on a tongue-and-groove joint — no glue, no tools.

2

Stretch the canvas

Lay the canvas painted side down, then place the frame on top with the crossbar facing up. Staple from the middle of each side outwards, alternating between opposite sides.

3

Hang it

Two hangers, tapped into the top bar.

How it looks on the wall

A pink and black painting on its frame, hung in a home work corner
A purple and mint painting stretched on its frame, hung above the bed in a bedroom
An orange and mint painting lettered UMAZANI MIŁOŚCIĄ (Polish for “smeared with love”), stretched on its frame and hung on a light wall

Questions about the frame

Didn't find your answer? Write to us at kontakt@nakedartkit.com — we're happy to help, that's exactly what we're here for!

Leave extra canvas to wrap around the edges and onto the back of the frame, where the staples go. That is about 5 cm on every side. On the short side, 100 cm covers the 90 cm frame with exactly that much to spare. On the long side there is more left over, so you trim the painting down to 130 cm — and the two of you decide which crop ends up on the wall.
No, and that's deliberate. The frame has to stay adjustable: the wedges in the corners push it apart by a fraction of a millimeter once the canvas slackens over time. Glue would lock the corner and take that away for good. The frame is held together by the tension of the canvas and by the tongue-and-groove joint.
They're tension held in reserve. They ship loose, in a bag, and you don't tap them in on day one — only if the canvas becomes slack after a few months. Then gently, a millimeter at a time, evenly across all eight. Tap them in on day one and the reserve is gone before you ever need it.
Everything is in the kit — the staple gun with staples, the wedges and the hangers. Nothing to buy on the side and nothing to borrow.
A stretched canvas pulls the longer bars inwards. Over 120 cm a thin profile bows by roughly a centimeter — you see it as a waist in the middle of the painting and as slack corners. One crossbar brings that down to a fraction of a millimeter.
By courier — the bars are 120 cm and no parcel locker takes them. They travel in a telescopic box, where the wood lies straight and doesn't bend on the way.