I have many loves in my life, two of them being matches and Chapel Hill. And I have a poster that brings them these two loves together, but it looks more like it's been in an abusive relationship. But since we're in the trust tree here, I am going to share:
I loved this poster when I bought it, but I was also a poor college student at the time, and did not bother to spend precious going out money on a frame. Once I finally did frame it, I used one that I inherited from an old roommate who was going to throw it away if I hadn't rescued it. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten in the way of natural selection like that.
Yes, by that point, my beloved poster was a hot, wrinkled mess but I hoped framing it would rescue it. Clearly it did not.
I could never bear to part with it, as it displays all of my old stomping grounds (some of them no longer with us: I'm talking about you, Treehouse and Michael Jordan's 23), so it has been hiding in the guest room these days. I've been wanting to display it more prominently, but clearly not in this state.
I still didn't want to spend a lot of money taking it somewhere to get restored, so just like how you don't want to go to the doctor if it's something that you can just diagnose on WebMD, I went to the interwebs for a solution.
I found this ehow article and figured I would try it here so you don't have to.
Will It Work? Ironing a Wrinkled Poster
1. Take poster out of POS frame
2. Lay poster on ironing board and set iron to lowest heat setting (a burnt up poster won't do you any good, wrinkles or not)
3. Lay fabric or bed sheet over poster
4. Go to town
5. Add to a new poster frame
A big improvement, right?
So what do I think of this method? It definitely did not get rid of all the wrinkles, but it looks a lot better than it did before. If I had more time, I probably would've tried laying it between a couple boards with weights on top for a few days, but this is a suitable quick solution. A better frame made a big diff as well.
So will it work? Yeah, pretty much.
And now I have a little NC love in the kitchen, plus something to draw the eye away from the kind of out of control collection of liquor bottles.
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I loved this poster when I bought it, but I was also a poor college student at the time, and did not bother to spend precious going out money on a frame. Once I finally did frame it, I used one that I inherited from an old roommate who was going to throw it away if I hadn't rescued it. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten in the way of natural selection like that.
Yes, by that point, my beloved poster was a hot, wrinkled mess but I hoped framing it would rescue it. Clearly it did not.
I could never bear to part with it, as it displays all of my old stomping grounds (some of them no longer with us: I'm talking about you, Treehouse and Michael Jordan's 23), so it has been hiding in the guest room these days. I've been wanting to display it more prominently, but clearly not in this state.
I still didn't want to spend a lot of money taking it somewhere to get restored, so just like how you don't want to go to the doctor if it's something that you can just diagnose on WebMD, I went to the interwebs for a solution.
I found this ehow article and figured I would try it here so you don't have to.
Will It Work? Ironing a Wrinkled Poster
1. Take poster out of POS frame
2. Lay poster on ironing board and set iron to lowest heat setting (a burnt up poster won't do you any good, wrinkles or not)
3. Lay fabric or bed sheet over poster
4. Go to town
5. Add to a new poster frame
So what do I think of this method? It definitely did not get rid of all the wrinkles, but it looks a lot better than it did before. If I had more time, I probably would've tried laying it between a couple boards with weights on top for a few days, but this is a suitable quick solution. A better frame made a big diff as well.
So will it work? Yeah, pretty much.
And now I have a little NC love in the kitchen, plus something to draw the eye away from the kind of out of control collection of liquor bottles.
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Huge improvement, and who knew you could iron a poster? Thanks for trying it out and sharing the results.
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Seriously! If only an iron worked for all the wrinkles in my life, haha.
Deletegreat fix! tfs!
ReplyDeleteI had this poster (or one very similar)! Brought it back to the UK with me in 1995, but I did not look after it and with all my house moves, it was eventually lost to the tides of time. Lovely to see that yours is still around though.
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