A wall montage is guaranteed to up the ‘cool factor’ of your bedroom, as it’s totally unique to your personality. A montage is a collage of photographs, pictures, souvenirs, and anything else you can think of, that grows over time until it covers a whole wall of your bedroom.
If you want to give your room a montage makeover, here are some top tips.
MONTAGE MAGIC
• Select an area of the wall for your montage. Cover it with brown paper or wrapping paper, so that if there are any gaps in your montage you won’t see the wall underneath.
• Choose a theme. Your montage could be based on a hobby or interest of yours, or you could use it as a journal, adding things that remind you of special moments in your life.
• Decide on where you want your montage to start. It could begin in the middle of the wall and grow outwards, or it could start at the bottom and grow upwards.
WHAT TO USE?
Try to use as many different things in your montage as you can, and stick them onto the backing paper with sticky tack. Here are a few ideas:
• You could use photographs. Add to them by having captions coming out of people’s mouths, or by cutting and mixing the photos.
• Collect pictures from newspapers, magazines and comics. Just cut out the parts you want.
• Use real objects to give a 3-D effect. For example, you could add old CDs to a music montage. For a sport montage, why not add a rosette in your team’s colours?
There’s absolutely no limit to what you can use: flattened cola cans, old football shirts, birthday cards, food labels, stickers, graffiti ... the only limits are your own imagination.
