Blueprint Decor

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This year has seen map, globe, and biology chart decor run wild, and while I'm still digging these trends, I'm becoming a bit more smitten with a close relative: the blueprint. Here are a few favorite sources for these chic beasts.

• Seajunk's Maritime Blueprint Locker sells detailed reproduction blueprints of some of the most famous ships in recent history.
• Etsy seller, echoart, has a huge selection of vintage blueprints from neighborhoods around New Jersey.
• Etsy seller, Glean Creative Ruse, is selling original blueprints from a 1950s Seattle home.
• Zazzle sells a large host of reproduction blueprints in a variety of sizes (up to 52"x35") at very reasonable prices.

Are you digging the trend as much as I am?

Image: House to Home

Comments (12)

I love it! I recently saw a gorgeous map hand painted onto a wall in "blueprint" style in House Beautiful:
http://tinyurl.com/ygb5hrq

i did this about 15 years ago in my father's office. He is a builder and i was interested in redoing his space. i used modge podge (lots of it, i was 15 and didn't know better) to stick it onto the wall above a chair rail. it looked fresh then and i still like it now when i see it here.

I use road maps and nautical charts in my mixed media art work. I think it's time to move on to blueprints---thanks for the inspiration, AT.

I just did a quick search on Etsy and found a store that sells blue prints a few animals. Neat idea!
My favorite is the grasshopper:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10361500

This is all over recent Pottery Barn catalog shoots.

Ha! That's great! I love being an Architecture student of the old school: not allowed to use computer assisted design for one more year and I'm already overflowing with original, hand-drafted floor plans and a few blueprints. I knew all that money had to be good for something. Lol.

bepsf - haha, I hadn't noticed, but you kind of just stole the wind from my sails. Still, I think paired with the right accents: les indiennes textiles (currently obsessed with), thin gilt gold frame, and high gloss walls ala cover of Elle Decor last month they can read as very classy, not just trendy

I love the desk in the first picture, does anyone know where that is from? thanks!

actual blue prints, diazo prints, are pure nostalgia these days. the chemicals used to make them [amonia mostly] are now classified as hazardous and most print shops don't even have diazo machines anymore. large format copiers have replaced these, and though they don't look as cool, they are a lot healthier for the people making them. if you do this with real diazo prints, they do fade, yellow and get "dusty" over time, so you might want to seal them some how.

As someone who has played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons (as a kid 20 years ago, I promise I don't anymore), I definitely have an affinity toward this look of the blueprints (i.e. dungeon maps).

These are definitely something I could see on the wall of a home office.

Alright, time to put the geek card back in the pocket.