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I am tired of white walls and rooms that look like they are sterile and uninviting! I can't paint and they do not want us to hang anything that cannot be supported with thumb tacks (no nails or staples allowed) So... I have thought of covering squares of cardboard and tacking them, ceiling to floor to one wall to create a focal wall. I could use fabric in one or more colors, prints or maybe faux suede.
I also thought about embossing thin copper craft foil with a forest or garden scene and making each section of the scene on a seperate cardboard that could be attached with copper headed tacks. Or maybe using silver foil and distressing it I could to a punched tin pattern...
These are just ideas hatching at the moment. Does anyone out there have any other ideas? Have you tried any of these?
when i moved into my old house, one bedroom was covered floor to ceiling with bedsheets, geometric-ish design, held with staples. looked pretty cool, for a while. and when i took them down, the holes were fairly unnoticeable.
I guess I am pretty lucky as we can hang anything we want. If we wish (I don't) we can paint as long as we paint it back when we move. I am pleased with the walls as they are.
I haven't hung a lot YET. I am still looking for things I want. I believe it makes the room look smaller when the walls are covered with pictures & other things.
Dar
I am not sure where the idea originated that thumb tacks had to be poked through something to hang it up. For years everything in my apartments have been hung with thumb tacks. Virtually everything that is supposed to hang from walls have one of three things on the back. A key hole slot or a loop or the metal strip with the jagged teeth. I hang clocks, pictures and plaques with them. I use the ones with the plastic heads for the loops and the slots and the all metal flat head thumb tacks left out a little bit for the metal strips. Push the thumb tack in on a slight angle up. Straight in it is to easy for it to tip down a bit and down it comes. I just weighed the heaviest thing I have on the wall. It is a 19x23 inch barn wood framed picture and weighs five pounds and is held up with one loop on the back and one plastic headed thumb tack. I wouldn't recommend hang grandfather clocks this way though.
When I move I take a tiny bit of spackle on the tip of my finger and dab the hole then a damp cloth on my finger to dab the spackle with. Don't wipe it or it will show up like a sore thumb.
I have started using 3m's prroducts the have double face tape type stickems. When you are down just pull the stickem and down it comes...no hole in the walls and no stickiness left on the wall. Just like nothing was ever hung.
