Over-the-Fireplace Art

~ Laura

We have a big brown fireplace in our livingroom. I’m not complaining. We love our fireplace, even if it is big and brown. But its bigness and brown-ness is a challenge.

Last week, I took an old map of Paris from 1550 and cropped it, so it didn’t immediately look like a map. I took out all the color, added some new colors, and sharpened the lines in Photoshop. Then I had it printed on canvas at Canvaspop. Here’s how it came out:

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8 thoughts on “Over-the-Fireplace Art”

  2. I love map art! That looks really nice.

    That said, I kind of want to spin it 90 degrees. All my Paris maps have the Seine running horizontally.

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  4. That is fabulous! Do they do a referral shop? I bet you could get some other people to glom onto your good taste in improving their own homes.

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  6. I’ll probably sell the .jpg elsewhere, but if anybody here wants it, just ask. If you want to make your own, the link above takes you to the original image.

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    1. I would love the jpg.–I probably won’t print it on canvas, but my husband and I went there for our tenth anniversary (generous in-laws), and I’d love to have this as a reminder to hang at home.

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  7. E-mail me, Jackie and I’ll send it to you. It’s a big file and WordPress is giving me a hard time about putting it on the website. Lmckenna11 at gmail.com.

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