You’ve finally bought a home and don’t have to worry about a landlord or property manager complaining about the photo frame holes in the wall or threatening to take your security deposit.

In fact, you can hammer away all day without worrying about mediocre adhesive yanking the paint out of your walls. Now, every wall can look like your college days of family collages and pin board pics. After you’ve unpacked, you dread having to flip through all of those photo albums (if you have them) to find the perfect pictures to hang. What’s worse, you don’t really feel like fussing with the flimsy cardboard on the back of your landscape and portrait frames.

Plus, if you took a trip to a nearby department store, it’s not an accident that the photo albums and printer paper are buried in a corner clearance rack.

Social Media Has Changed Our Home Decorating Game

With the popularity of social media, everybody from well-known influencers to everyday homeowners are more likely to post their favorite family photos on Instagram and Twitter versus framing them on walls where way fewer people can see them.

And retail photo technicians are more likely to be double-dipping as cashiers because of the lack of people getting photos developed. Social media and smartphones have made traditional camera owners wave goodbye to the old days of 35 mm and 110 film.

In our tech-dominant world, chances are you’re more likely to find digital photo frames instead of adhesive-page refills and frames anyway.

So homeowners are left wondering, “What should I do with all this extra wall space?” For do-it-yourselfers, this is your chance to really make your home your own without it looking like one big photo album.

Best of all, for novice and expert DIYers, you don’t have to dig around the bottom shelves at craft stores to do any of these five.

Collage of Favorite Pinterest or Instagram Quotes

This is your time to find the funniest (and family friendly for older relatives who visit) quotes from your favorite authors, musicians or athletes. Use a free site like Collage Maker or PhotoJoiner to print and compile them. Buy a collage picture frame online (or use a bunch of your old frames from your apartment days) and organize them however you see fit.

Kid-Art-Free Fridge

All those paintings and crayon drawings that your child made in art class or in an after-school program can finally get their proper shine — without crowding your refrigerator. Use the collage idea above, and let your daughter or son pick their favorites to go in the frame. (Or, scan all the pictures so you can strategically place them in one giant frame.)

Dollar Discount, Thrift Store and Flea Market Shopping

You’d be surprised how much cool art you can find at discount stores, and they don’t cost a mortgage payment to purchase. Set a budget for how many you’ll buy (because $1.25 will tempt you to buy the whole row) at once, along with which room they’ll go in. Consider the color scheme of the walls and the furniture so they match up well.

If you don’t find wall art you like, thrift stores usually have plenty of records. Find your favorite record cover art and use that. (Honestly, unless you’re competing with D-Nice, did you really have a record player to play the records anyway? Stick those in blank cover sleeves, and let your family deejay prove his skills at the next cookout.)

Reuse Cool Calendars

Have you ever bought a calendar that you really didn’t want to let go of? Maybe you don’t want all 12 pictures, but there were at least two or three visuals that made you not want to flip to the next month. For those pieces, find self-adhesive laminating sheets or clear sheet protectors in the office section of popular grocery stores. If the calendar art is larger than an 8×12, visit your local FedEx Office for larger laminate paper.

Bookworm Dare Devils

Teachers may not be happy about this next suggestion. But if you have a full-color book (or even someone’s memoir) that’s just collecting dust in the background of your Zoom calls, open that book and take all those beautiful photos out.

Then, frame them on your “virtual meeting wall.” Not only will this be a conversation starter for your next Zoom or DialPad call, but it’s also an even better background than stock images or the blurred features online.

These five wall art ideas not only show off your personality in every room, but they’re also convenient and don’t require adding another payment plan in home upgrades to your list. Save those funds for your cheap furniture scavenger hunt instead.