Vintage Posters

Since saving money has become such a priority in my household, most of the shopping that I’ve been doing recently has been of one of two categories: grocery shopping and window shopping.  I prefer virtual window shopping to the real variety since there is a smaller chance of me actually buying something on an impulse.  I search the interwebs high and low to figure out how I’ll spend money once I actually have it to spend.  I think that this gives me at least some sense of satisfaction at the moment, since it’s quite difficult for me to derive any actual satisfaction from saving money.  You see the amount in the bank account go up, that’s much less satisfying than actually having something in your hand.  So I plan how I’ll spend the money and it gives me a feeling of what we’re actually working towards.  Anyhow.

I love vintage posters.  I find that I see them the most often in restaurants, showing old ads to food and booze.  I love the artwork of them, but I don’t think that food and booze is really my thing (or at least, not enough to put pictures of it on my walls!).  Then I discovered vintage travel posters.  They make my heart sing.  Travelling is another one of the luxuries that has been cut out of my life for the time being, but it’s one of the things that I truly love.  Here’s a few of the posters from this website that I particularly enjoy.  There are tons of vintage posters on that website though, so it’s worth a look around.  You can also order them in pretty much any size, so it’s very convenient.  I tried to choose a selection of posters that include a variety of colours to make a more interesting gallery wall.

I think that these would look really nice in a living room as a gallery wall (so maybe 2 rows of 3 frames) or in a bedroom.  I felt inspired by this bedroom (source unknown) where they used the full length of the room to put up a row of frames. 

This would make a small bedroom feel bigger, I think, since it elongates the width of the room.  This might be something to consider for our future bedroom, although I think it would do better in a living room or hallway since it’s kind of busy with all of the colours.  I also tend to like simple black frames the best, although I can also see the appeal of white or silver frames.  I think that I have more idea for wall art than I have actual wall space in the future condo!  I guess that means that I’ll have refined my idea and isolated the best ones by the time we’re actually ready to move in.

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