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: