The World Map is up! It is a 111 inch x 76 inch National Geographic Political World map that came in three panels. We struggled with how to mount it on the wall. We thought about mounting it to rolled cork board and hanging the cork board on the wall and then framing it. The rolled cork board would have cost a fortune and still did not resolve the major dilemma of matching the three panels together. There is a one and half inch overlap on the panels, but we knew deep down we would absolutely have problems matching everything up.
After many weeks of contemplation we called a wallpaper guy. He had the map installed in less than an hour - believe me, this is the way to go! Erich and I purchased some molding with a coffee stain to match the floor and built a frame. Since we already have a compound miter saw, from when we put up crown molding in the Suisun house, the frame went up pretty easy. Ok, so we will be putting the “where we have been” pins directly into the wall. Oh, well, if we do sell the house we will have to most likely remove the map, frame and retexture the wall anyway. We bought some map tacks online in various colors, they were pretty small and the color was somewhat muted, blending into the map. They were hard to force into the wall and I kept dropping them, many of them went right into the heater vent. A trip to Staples and we found some cool push pins in brighter colors, much easier to put in the wall, and they were too big to fall into the heater vent.
After many weeks of contemplation we called a wallpaper guy. He had the map installed in less than an hour - believe me, this is the way to go! Erich and I purchased some molding with a coffee stain to match the floor and built a frame. Since we already have a compound miter saw, from when we put up crown molding in the Suisun house, the frame went up pretty easy. Ok, so we will be putting the “where we have been” pins directly into the wall. Oh, well, if we do sell the house we will have to most likely remove the map, frame and retexture the wall anyway. We bought some map tacks online in various colors, they were pretty small and the color was somewhat muted, blending into the map. They were hard to force into the wall and I kept dropping them, many of them went right into the heater vent. A trip to Staples and we found some cool push pins in brighter colors, much easier to put in the wall, and they were too big to fall into the heater vent.
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