When we moved into our apartment, we had more furniture than could fit in most of our rooms. The only exception was our dinning room, which seems to be designed for a family of eight living in our two bedroom apartment. Seriously, it's bigger than both of our bedroom and has nothing but one tiny little eat-in kitchen table sitting in it. The dinning room in our last apartment was probably a fourth the size of our current one and was off-set by a large bay window area. Basically, it was a giant window with a table next to it. Not only do we have a big empty room, but we had a huge space of chalk-white walls with no decoration. It made me sad.
So, I got on Amazon and ordered a $10 "vintage-style" map to Modge-Podge onto a cork board to take up some of the space in our unnecessarily large dining room.
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| I could have done without the National Geographic logo. |
I picked up a framed cork board on-post. Living overseas, you have to work with what you can get. There were cheaper boards on Amazon, but none of them would ship here on Prime and it wasn't worth it to pay the shipping. There was a grand total of one type and size of cork board at the store. If I was in the States, I probably would have just gone to Home Depot or a craft store and had the exact size cut and the map would have probably turned out better. Also, I could not get regular modge-podge, so I had to make it myself.
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| I also cannot write properly on chalkboard |
Since my cork board was just slightly too small, I had to trim the map down. This didn't turn out too great at first, but after modge-podge-ing it onto the board, you couldn't notice my lines were slightly uneven. I may go back and paint the edges of the board and make it even less noticeable.
After gluing the map on, I ended up with a few creases. Most of them are over ocean area, so they aren't very obvious. I wasn't thrilled with how it turned out, but for less than $25 for the whole project, I can't complain too much. Since this will most likely end up ruined in our move back to the States anyway, I'll probably end up redoing it a little more accurately in the future.
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| Yes, I did add Greg's deployments |
The map is 2 ft by 3 ft and is still dwarfed on this giant, empty wall, but it's getting somewhere. Eventually, I plan to surround it with pictures to help fill up a little more of the void. Now, all we need to do is actually travel some places so I can use up some of these extra pins!
