I designed this map of Vancouver for our new apartment to add a touch of 'home,' but wasn't sure how to put it on the wall. Just using thumb tacks seemed, well, tacky.
Having just spent $35 ordering it in the largest size available from Vistaprint it seemed stupid to spend just as much, if not more, on a frame.
I liked the idea of it looking a bit like a school map, so I figured there had to be a cheap way to accomplish the aesthetic.
So off to Lowe's I went!
I grabbed two 8 foot furring strips for $1.19 each. (We had a second poster printed for my husband, but it's something sciencey and complicated, so I shan't bore you with it.)
Then I had the nice guy in the lumber department cut each of them into three pieces- two about 37" long, and one is just the leftover.
I used a good ol' fashioned stapler (I bought the wrong size staples for my staple gun, so I had to make do) to attach the furring strips to the front of my poster at the top and bottom.
Then I cut a piece of string the same length as the wood (keep in mind that it will stretch) and tied a few knots at the end, stretched it as taught as I could, and stapled it on as well.
A couple of nails later and I have a cute poster that is more grown up than the Spice Girls one I had behind my bedroom door as a child, and the hanging mechanism cost me less than $2!
I'll definitely be repeating this one in the future.
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