Wall murals and canvas prints: how to add personal touches to the home with Photowall

Wall murals and canvas prints are a great way to add personal touches to a home, in addition to painting rooms to your own colour palette, adding wallpaper, accessorising with cushions and other home furnishings.

I seem to be on an endless quest to find that balance with having objects like books to add interest and talking points to a space, while looking organised and somewhat minimalist. It’s a real skill to achieve the balance and one I am still learning.

I also absolutely love prints so when Photowall –a Swedish company with a passion for design and quality- contacted me and asked if I would like to create my own canvas print, I jumped at the opportunity.

Packaging & Delivery

It took a while for me to select the right photo from my collection that I thought would look nice blown up and made into a canvas print, but I went for this photo that I took at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show back in July.

All Rights ClaireySweetie

Before placing my order, I needed some help from the customer service team at Photowall and the person that I dealt with online was super helpful. I was able to place an order for a 60x50cm canvas print* with a DIY frame.

When the canvas turned up before I opened the box I was a little worried I had ordered something ginormous by accident, but as you can see from the photo, everything arrived tightly compacted with no damage. The canvas itself arrived rolled up ready to attach to the frame once assembled.

Canvas print DIY frame Photowall

Canvas print DIY frame Photowall

Assembly of the canvas print DIY frame

As instructions go, assembling the canvas could not have been simpler. It was a case of un-rolling the canvas onto a clean, flat surface; positioning each of the four wooden frame sections on top; removing the protective paper to reveal the tape, and folding the canvas upwards onto each edge to firmly attach.

You then fold the frame sections in towards one another, attach the corner brackets, and then screw into place.

Assembly instructions Photowall

DIY frame assembly Photowall

As I assembled the frame by myself (which was totally doable), I had a small amount of difficulty that resulted in the frame not screwing together quite as succinct as desired. However, I do acknowledge this as my error and not that of the product or instructions.

Looking at the completed canvas all set up, you would not notice the errors I made.

DIY canvas print frame assembly

DIY canvas print frame assembly Photowall

DIY canvas print frame Photowall

Photowall: Quality and Appearance

Photowall’s wall murals and canvas prints are environmentally friendly, fire-retardant in accordance with Swedish standards and do not fade in sunlight.

Overall, I am very impressed with the quality of the canvas print and the level of service I have received from the Photowall team.

Photowall canvas print

The canvas print is very large and makes a real statement in my home, which I love. I would definitely consider creating more canvas prints using my own photography going forward, particularly as gifts for friends and family.

Until next time x

*I received the canvas from Photowall in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

5 Comments

    • Claire
      Author
      5th February 2018 / 12:50 pm

      Thank you for taking the time to read my content 🙂

  1. Jon Wood 13th October 2017 / 7:49 am

    What an amazing article I enjoyed it reading and watching the beautiful pictures.I will surely try to make one of those and I totally agree with the personal touch. Thanks sharing this with us 🙂

  2. Akshay 9th October 2017 / 6:41 am

    Self made things will always be more precious than that of ready made expensive stuffs, that’s mainly because we add a personal touch and emotion that I have made it, It’s different from that of ready made products. Nice article with a pretty photo wall.

    • Claire
      Author
      9th October 2017 / 2:18 pm

      Thank you and I completely agree 🙂

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