Occupy Wall Space

This is one of the walls in our apartment, specifically: the one we eat beside. (Apologies for the blurry pictures here and there.)

This is one panel from an enormous cardboard box that once held a mattress. I found it next to a dumpster at my apartment complex. What a treat. I chopped it up and made use of it.

This is an old book with a lot of browned pages. I picked it up at Half-Price Books for two dollars.

I removed the cover...

...and trimmed the pages off the spine.

I picked up some paper glue at HobLobs and used it to stick these bad boys, one by one, to the cardboard.

Then I did that like a million times.

Now we can read our wall instead of talk to one another as we eat dinner. Big improvement.

P.S. - I had seen a couple DIY book page wallpapers floating around the internet. Since we can't just wallpaper our apartment walls, I thought panels would do. Plus, they added some depth to a big, bland wall. The book cover itself is actually covering our alarm control box...it's a bit gaudy.

Comments

[Anthony Dina]

Wonderful. Inspiring. Comforting. Thanks for reminding us that if we wrap ourselves with literature we go places. Even in the cozy nook of a breakfast table. Well done.

[Michael Gray]

This gives an entirely new way of looking at "posting to your wall".