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Diane
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Posted: April 18 2006 at 3:46am \| IP Logged

What is your favorite online source for wall maps? Who makes the best? I need to replace our world map, and I'm hoping to buy a few individual continent ones too.

Thanks!

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 7:49am \| IP Logged

We love our National Geographic wall map, it's been in our dining room for 2 years now and covers the whole wall almost. I think I bought it for $100, and it's worth every single penny.

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 8:04am \| IP Logged

I think we got ours at Barnes & Noble, but I can't find it on their webiste; I will say that our map is laminated and it makes all the difference in the world with how (and how much) we use it!

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 8:44am \| IP Logged

For years I've been admiring my Mom's gorgeous wall map. It is stunning. I think she got it from mapquest (it says Mapquest on it) but I will find out for sure. We have a national geographic one that we mounted on foam board to make the tacks stick in better. Got it at Barnes and Noble.

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 9:16am \| IP Logged

I have the NG big one wallpapering one hallway. it looks great, and when you open the closet door across from it, the light shines on the world!

To cover the rest of the wall, I used old NG magazine maps, torn and decoupaged. It looks very cool, and it was a quick and easy project.

I had to really reduce this photo to make it fit, but I hope you can get the idea.

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 1:45pm \| IP Logged

I second the laminated NG wall maps. I was able to wipe off mud and mold from them after the hurricane and after a bleach dip they are as good as new!!
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Posted: April 18 2006 at 2:18pm \| IP Logged

I definitely agree with laminated maps. I purchased mine at B&N a couple of weeks ago, and used the teacher discount--they ended up being very reasonable.
We have very limited wall space in our new home, and no dedicated schoolroom

, so we ended up mounting both maps on a piece of particleboard, placing 2 grommets through the maps and board, and hanging them on two hooks hung in our dining room. This way we can flip the map over as needed. I would much prefer to have both maps available at all times,but we just don't have the space. This was a good solution.

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Posted: April 18 2006 at 3:44pm \| IP Logged

another vote for the laminated wall map. we hung ours in the laundry room - so we walk past it every time we come into the house from the garage. it's out of the way and yet easily accessable.

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Posted: April 19 2006 at 2:10am \| IP Logged

Thanks for all of the advice. I was planning to get the NG ones and was just wondering if anyone had found anything better. Theresa, please let me know if you find out about your mom's---the only Mapquest I know gives me directions online.

MacBeth, I love the decoupage---very cool---but I think my Belgian landlord would not be too happy.

Maybe someday I'll have a real house...

I am seriously considering getting the enlarged size (73X49) for my dining room. (The mural is just too big. Sigh.) I have a big blank wall begging for it every time we sit down at the table. My dh thinks it might look a bit strange, and he's doesn't usually care about the decor of our home. We've got one long room that serves as both living room and dining room, with only a funky, black metal fireplace separating the two. They are the only two rooms in the house that are uncluttered and tastefully decorated. A huge wall map might look a little out of place, but I can see it getting a lot of use there. I really don't want to announce to all guests that homeschoolers with lots of kids have no taste---we have enough of a reputation around here.

Hmmm, maybe the color would make a difference. I really like the brightly-colored one (is this what you have, MacBeth?), which looks more rich than bright, but maybe the antique tones would blend better and look a bit more classy in a dining room. Theresa and Noreen, how do yours look in the dining rooms?

Thanks again! Happy trekking on your maps.

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Posted: April 19 2006 at 10:09am \| IP Logged

Diane wrote:

Hmmm, maybe the color would make a difference. I really like the brightly-colored one (is this what you have, MacBeth

I do have the brightly colored one, since
the rest of the house is fairly drab (changing soon!).

I hope it works out! Too bad you can't do the decoupage...wasn't it invented in Belgium

?

"Mais, Msr. Le Landlord...n'est-pas une technique Belge?"

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Posted: April 19 2006 at 11:21am \| IP Logged

Here is a great online resource for maps. Maps.com
They have a wide variety of styles and sizes. They don't have the exact one my mom has, but it looks alot like this one
She has it framed in black wood and it looks really classy up on the wall. Not gaudy or tacky at all.

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Posted: April 24 2006 at 1:51pm \| IP Logged

For those of you who have the NG mural map, do you wallpaper-glue it to your wall? I'd like to somehow adhere images of our piture books about life in different lands to a wall map (FIAR style) and was wondering how you'd get a mural map to stay put without glue?

Also, our map will be in a hallway adjacent to our schoolroom, and I'm worried about hallway wear and tear on a mural map that isn't laminated. Is there any way to laminate it without cutting it apart, laminating and reassembling the mural?

Thanks for the great map suggestions, everyone. I've been looking around for one for a while and never could find just the right "fit " for us!

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Posted: May 04 2006 at 6:31pm \| IP Logged

I may have located the mapquest map that Theresa's mom has??? It shows it in a black frame, but I can't tell if it comes that way or not. I may have to buy this one myself!

Is this it???

mapquest map to buy

You can see it here too:
Interarts Mapquest wall map

And there's a set of both world AND U.S by same company:
Wall map set

You can see many wall maps at www.maps.com (where I found the last two sites with the Mapquest/Interarts maps, or www.allposters.com has some nice, inexpensive ones as well.

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