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Decorating my living room using personalised posters

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In my living room there is wall which hasn’t been wallpapered and that doesn’t have a piece or art or mirror hanging on it, and every time I sit on the sofa my eye is drawn to the big blank empty space. I knew that I wanted to include some photos of my friends and family in my home (there are no photos of my favourite people anywhere, rubbish I know) and I liked the idea of hanging a photo collage. I’ve seen plenty of examples online – I am addicted to Pinterest, after all – and I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while but until last week I had no idea about how I could go about doing it.

I had loads of printed photos that have I haven’t yet got round to adding to an album or framing, but I remember making a ‘physical’ photo collage with my sister for her living about 10 years ago and it took days, maybe weeks, to add all the photos and frame it. I guess that if I don’t have time to frame one photo, I certainly didn’t have weeks to dedicate to the project!

I thought about making a digital collage but I didn’t want to spend hours editing photos and using a program on the computer to create a photo collage, nor did I know how I would get it printed; I won’t be able to use my home printer as it will be too big; and I don’t want to spend a fortune on art printing or canvas wraps etc. I was contacted by PosterFriend, who has kindly gifted me some posts so I hopped onto their website and set to work creating my artwork.

posterfriend wall art photography

This website connected to my Facebook and Instagram feeds and allowed me to choose any of the photos that I’d ever uploaded. This made creating the artwork super-simple: it was just a case of opening an album on Facebook and dragging-and-dropping the photos that I wanted.

Of course, I looked in the “Photos of Cassie” album first and made sure that all my favourite snaps of myself and hubby were included before adding loads of photos of our friends and family throughout the year. I shifted some of the photos around within the standard layout so that my photos were roughly laid out as Spring photos at the top moving down to Winter and Christmas photos at the bottom of the poster. A couple of clicks later and the poster was ordered – I couldn’t believe how quickly I’d managed to achieve exactly what I’d wanted, without having to faff around with uploading individual photos or formatting the layout myself.decorating-with-wall-art-posters-by-posterfriendDuring the following week the poster arrived and it was even better thank I’d expected – and bigger! Even though I’d ordered an A1 poster, I didn’t really realise how big it would be and how many photos would be on it, but it was just what I wanted and it does look excellent! I’m toying with the idea of buying a big frame to hang it in, but in the meantime I’ve tacked it up and it is proudly displayed in my living room. I no longer have to look at that blank wall and now I smile when I glance at the poster and see loads of photos of my family and friends all neatly displayed on one gorgeous poster!

Some items in this blog post have been gifted to me and the pink links indicate a gifted product, affiliate link or information source. All thoughts and opinions in this post are based on my own experience and I am not responsible for your experience 🙂

8 Responses

  1. Thanks so much 🙂 it’s so nice to have fun photos of family and friends around us – I so rarely print out photos these days! 🙂

  2. Awesome, that’s a pretty cool idea I like it 🙂

    My friend came up with a similar idea, we wanted a collage in our room of all our life events. I came across this company called unique posters, they offer personalised posters which also looks pretty cool, not to sure what I want to do yet.

    Looks good!:)

  3. It was so easy to do and I was pretty amazed by the result considering it took no time at all to make! 🙂

  4. I’ve seen all these companies offering to turn Instagram pics into wall art and i’ve always been a little cautious to use them… it looks like a great idea though… If I was back at Uni I think i’d be getting some.

  5. Yes, do it! It’s really made a difference to that bare wall in my living room 🙂

  6. Thanks Jenn 🙂 I really like how it looks but i keep getting distracted by looking at all the photos!! X

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Cassie is a freelance writer with a Masters degree in Lifestyle Promotion Studies and is trained in Personal Money Management. She loves to ‘get the look for less’ so regularly shares thrifty-living advice, DIY interior design ideas and low-cost recipes on her blog.

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