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Kirsten
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As I have written about before, as far as hobbies go, my love of interior decorating and art is second only to my love of travel (and everything that goes along with travel). Over the years, we have often combined both, using things that we have found during our travels to decorate our home. One of our favorite travel souvenirs is a cool travel poster from a favorite location. We have other types of artwork from different places as well, but I will save that for another post.
The first travel poster we bought was on a street in Paris in 2001. I fell in love with it immediately, and had the perfect place for it in our (old) house. When we moved, it came along with us, of course. And we have been able to find places for all of our older posters & have added to our collection over the years.
Poster from Paris purchased in 2011
I have found that the key to a cohesive interior is to stick to one frame color. We chose black for all of our travel poster frames, although the style of frames varies throughout the house. I also gravitate toward a specific style of art, and I think that all of the posters mesh because of that.
Our London posters purchased on a trip in 2002
Before we had kids (meaning, we had more time), we actually cut the mats ourselves. My husband even made some of the frames himself as well. Now I usually buy my frames from either Michaels or Ikea. You can even buy a bunch of random frames at yard sales or thrift shops and spray paint them all the same color.
My favorite posters are the ones from the National Parks. We generally purchase them at the Visitor Center gift shops in each National Park that we visit. Some can also be ordered online (I have used AllPosters when some of ours got ruined & we had to order new ones – don’t forget to use a shopping portal). I framed them all using floating frames from Michaels, that I purchase with a coupon or when they are buy one get one free.
Some of our National Park travel posters
I have some new ones that I haven’t gotten a chance to frame yet (Nashville, Volcanoes National Park, and Acadia National Park), so the collection is growing! Finding wall space is going to be the challenge!
Here are some other ways that we have brought the memories home with us:
Our Sand Collection
Our Shell Collection
The Kids’ Travel Magnets
How to Decorate with your Travel Photos
How do you bring your travel memories home?
I love seeing new ideas!
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