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If you are in love with the theater, be it musicals or plays, why not create unique home decor that would show off your passion? There are quite a number of ways you can easily achieve the desired look.

Use Posters and CD Covers as Wallpaper

Perhaps you have a particular room in your home that you have devoted to your theater memorabilia collection. This is the ideal place to use theater posters and CD covers as wallpaper, be it just on one wall, or, for the particularly avid theatre fan, all the walls.

Broadway - Theater Poster

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Features:
• State-of-the art DIGITAL Print
• Printed on an acid free, heavy weight paper
• Includes crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger

Title: Broadway Size and Orientation: 11″ x 17″ Portrait State-of-the art DIGITAL presses print eye popping quality! Stains and tears on the original posters have been removed so the posters look as sharp and true as the originals seen in theaters. Posters are printed on an acid free, heavy weight paper and arrive in a crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger. This Is an 11 inch x 17 inch Movie Poster Replica, Not A Jigsaw Puzzle

This idea for unique home decor is also good since it is inexpensive and you should enjoy the process of making such “wallpaper”. You just need to take all the theater posters that you have (unframed), as well as scans of album covers, and use poster putty to anchor them to the wall. To achieve the effect of wallpaper, all of the items should be places closely together in collage form.

Mirror Decorations

All theater fans have a favorite group of actors or actresses. To incorporate this into your unique home decor, you can use the Internet - visit various websites and get a bunch of solo pictures of your favorite theater stars. These pictures can be professional, candid, or a mixture of both.

Next, find a mirror that you use on a daily basis (it should be a wall or bathroom mirror). Then resize each photo that you have found so that they are about 1 inch by 1 inch. Print and cut out all of the pictures, and arrange them around the mirror for a nice theatrical frame.

Build a Library

Theater fans often have a large amount of theater books, DVDs, and albums in their collection. Such an impressive collection should be shown off in unique home decor - simply arrange them on typical linear shelving units attached to the wall. Alternatively, you can position the units like steps going up and down your wall. One more idea is to make the shelves slightly diagonal, but just be sure to have some good bookends!

More Ideas for Unique Home Decor

There are quite a lot of other interesting ideas to help you decorate your home in a theatrical fashion. Stage design books can provide some valuable tips; web search can bring good results as well. Or, being a theater lover you must have plenty of your own creative ideas to use in unique home decor. For more information on Unique Home Decor check out http://www.homedecordiscussion.com. You’ll find loads of tips and techniques plus you’ll find answers to questions many others in your situation have asked before. But Hurry! For a limited time you can get your very own copy of our award winning Home Decor Software at absolutely no cost.

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(ARA) – When juggling the demands of work and family, busy homeowners often reach for the ease and convenience of mass-produced decor to create an atmosphere that reflects their own personal style. However, this “one-size-fits-all” approach to home decorating can often lead to lifeless rooms that weren’t created so much to be lived in as they were to be looked at. Experts agree that avoiding a cookie cutter motif is easier than you may think.

During his recent turn on Bravo’s “Top Design” reality television series, Chicago interior designer, Erik Kolacz repeatedly demonstrated the importance of infusing personal tastes into the design of your home. “Regardless of whether you’re reworking a family heirloom to fit your decor or browsing the aisles at Target, in the end you have to live in your home,” says Kolacz. “Be patient, and stick to what appeals to you, and you can’t go wrong.”

Kolacz suggested that one of the easiest ways to work personal style into home decor is through thoughtful choices in unframed artwork. “Utilizing the skill and expertise of a custom framer makes a huge difference in how well a piece will fit into your space,” says Kolacz. “When choosing a custom framing professional to assist you, look for a framer that asks questions about where the piece will be and not just the piece itself.”

As the owner of The Designer’s Wall Gallery in Birmingham, Mich., Bonnie Palizzi concurs. “There are so many things a professional custom framer can offer to enhance your art as well as complement your interior design,” says Palizzi. “A custom framer should be thinking about several things before they even suggest a design, including the art, the space where it will hang and the personality of the room.” Palizzi even goes so far as to offer home visits to her customers, but acknowledges that this is not always a possibility. She suggested that one good way to ensure that the framing size will fit is to request a paper template that can be used to “test-out” the space. “There’s no better way to make sure that what you and your framer have designed will really work than to have a visual to hang on the wall that you can step back and take a look at,” says Palizzi.

Consider a few of these additional tips from Palizzi for creating a unique home environment that matches your distinctive style:

1. Remember that the frame and mat should complement the art, not compete with it for attention. “You want to pull the eye to the art, not the framing,” says Palizzi. “The frame and the matting should never be the focus.”
2. Size your piece to balance with the architecture in the room. “In a room with high ceilings, a solitary piece should be large enough not to get lost in the extra space,” says Palizzi. You can create a larger look by using a larger mat design. “Crescent offers matboards in a variety of textures and colors that make it very easy to achieve this without sacrificing the integrity of the art,” says Palizzi.
3. When framing, consider the room color and the particular space where the piece will be hung. “The eye will naturally go to the darkest spot if the room is light, and vice versa,” says Palizzi. “Your framing should create a balance with the room’s decor.”
4. Don’t make the mistake of limiting framing to canvas or paper artwork only. Palizzi has framed everything from silverware to fishing lures to musical instruments. “You might be surprised at how many things a custom framer can work with,” says Palizzi. “And, often, these kinds of pieces make the most beautiful statements.”

Finally, Palizzi recommends choosing a custom framing professional that guarantees your satisfaction with the finished piece. “If for some reason you find that the piece doesn’t fit with your space, the advantage of working with a custom framer is that most are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure you’re happy,” says Palizzi. “They’ve also got the advantage of having high quality materials that come with their own guarantee available to them. For example, Crescent’s 100 percent cotton RagMat matboards are guaranteed safe next to any artwork for life. You can’t beat that!”

For more information about custom framing, visit www.crescentcardboard.com or contact a professional framer in your area.

(ARA) - The written form of language has always had a primal power to move us. From carvings in caves to alphabets on hand-stitched samplers to the word “welcome” on a doormat, we’ve historically surrounded ourselves with a certain amount of typography in our homes. Now leaders in the home decorating industry say that interest in “interior typography” is soaring to new heights.

Mary McPhail, cofounder and creative director of WonderfulGraffiti.com, built her entire company around the art of lettering for home interiors. “I think personalization of anything is an important trend right now, and in a nation of 277 million households, everyone’s looking for ways to make their homes one of a kind.”

The centerpiece of McPhail’s Web site is a virtual wall that lets you customize your own typography in the form of Wonderful Graffiti. The ultra-thin, matte vinyl text mimics the look of printing on walls. It transfers easily to hard, smooth surfaces yet peels away completely without harming the underlying finish. Your lettered design is delivered to you, exactly as you designed it on your virtual wall, pre-positioned on a single sheet of transfer paper. Tape the sheet of transfer paper into position, rub down the text and peel away the transfer paper. Only the individual letters remain.

Wonderful Graffiti expanded their concept of interior typography this year with three new media: BlankCanvas is a collection of semi-customizable artists’ canvases featuring unconventional monograms and type designs in black and white. The Graffiti 3D collection offers a variety of three-dimensional letters in enamel, Lucite or metal. Graffiti Ghost is a semi-transparent vinyl transfer material for more subtle lettering effects.

“All of our wall decor is fun to work with,” says McPhail, “but if you want to integrate typography into your home, you can do it just as effectively with stencils, paint, paper, ink, markers, chalk, embroidery — whatever tools you’re most comfortable using.”

Are you brave enough to write on your walls?

We’ve all been taught since toddler-hood that writing on anything besides paper is “bad.” If it’s done at all, it’s only by artsy-craftsy types. What will the neighbors think? And what about resale value?

McPhail says to take a deep breath and open your mind. “Once you give yourself permission to let go, you’ll discover that the possibilities for ‘writing’ on your surroundings become exhilaratingly endless. And while you could begin by stenciling an inspirational quote on a wall or a child’s name on a bedroom door, why stop your thinking there? Imagining beyond what first comes to mind is the really fun part of decorating with typography.”

Think favorite recipes. Borders that tell stories. Poetry. Inside jokes. Motherly advice. Political statements. Even holiday greetings.

McPhail points to endless examples of how beautifully designed text can be integrated into a room’s design. You can put it to work welcoming guests, showing the way, organizing chaos or inspiring the kids. Or use typography to add an element of emotion anywhere in the house, whether it’s an upbeat phrase on your bathroom mirror to kick-start your day, a definition of family, a spiritual message that wraps around you and your guests at the dinner table, or a few sweet nothings to create a romantic mood in the bedroom. McPhail says that what her clients really gravitate to, though, are ways to personalize their spaces, say with a family monogram, or a sentiment that ties into a special interest like travel or fine wines.

For more information, log on to www.WonderfulGraffiti.com or call (877) 557-5675.

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5 out of 5 stars map of middle earth poster shines! November 10, 2006
I love how this looks in a frame on my wall! I bought it as a side gift along with the boxed-set of books for my husband’s birthday. I highly recommend putting a little money into a 24″ x 36″ frame. This print is worthy of a nice frame but looks great in a regular poster frame. I highly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of The Lord of the Rings books and/or movies.

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