A got this picture at the op shop the other day when I was looking for a frame for a print I got given. I thought it was really cute but the picture is pressed metal and didn't belong in a frame.
I didn't really like the colour of the wood either, so here's what I did.
I gave it a thin layer of acrylic paint. This is a pale yellow or cream colour. Then I attached 2 rows of lace with drawing pins. I used some of my vintage scrabble tiles and glued them along the top, and then pegged my photos to the lace. I'm happy with how it turned out. I think it would look lovely with a coloured wall behind it too. It was quick and easy to do. The part that took the longest was finding and printing out the photos since I have thousands of them on the computer.
