How to Decorate with Maps to Personalize Your Home
Sometimes it can be challenging to choose pleasing artwork for your home. Original art is expensive, and mass produced prints can feel impersonal. See how to decorate with maps – which can be fun and inexpensive all at once!
Photo by Entrance Fastighetsmäkleri
Add a quick and easy pop of color to any room with a large map poster. You can find these in home décor stores and online, too.
Use a map to indicate where you live. A colorful map of Maine brightens a cheery breakfast nook.
Photo by Tyler Karu Design + Interiors
Personalize your interior spaces by displaying maps of favorite places that you’ve visited. Or if you’ve moved, add a map of your birthplace to remind you of home.
A map of Paris recalls memories of a favorite café or a walk along the Seine river.
Photo by hoo Interior Design & Styling
Wall maps can be a great way to enhance a color scheme in your home.
Photo by Jenn Hannotte / Hannotte Interiors
If you’re lucky enough to find several maps in a consistent color scheme, frame them all and forget having to paint the wall!
Global maps can be painted on walls as a large mural. No other wall adornment is needed.
If you like DIY projects, consider using colorful maps as wallpaper.
A collection of framed maps can be used to identify all the places you’ve lived. What better way to personalize a living space?
Photo by Priority 1 Project Management
Do you have any maps in your home that you use for decoration? I hope today’s feature inspired you to try decorating with maps in the future.
Love maps! I have a rather large framed map of Chicago from the 1800s hanging in my living room. Now, I think I need another. Thank you for this!
Thank you for this post. A good reminder of how to make your home’s artwork unique.
Never thought about using maps, nice idea.
I love maps. i have a map of the USA on my wall and a map of Yosemite,too. I would love to get a map of Paris.