Follow Up on Displaying an Original Trolley Scroll Intact

Remember when Catherine sought the advice of Apartment Therapy readers about how best to display a 4m long original trolley bus scroll? After your great advice, Catherine and her husband put their thinking caps on and came up with a great solution using a pair of Ikea TUPPLUR blinds. See the result after the jump...

We used Ikea TUPPLUR roller blinds attached to both the top and bottom of the blind so that we can 'scroll' through the destinations. This meant that we didn't have to cut the blind and it can be displayed in one piece - in fact we can even change the display if we want to. We hung it in our study where the roof is highest and we're both really pleased with the results!

I know that destination blinds/scrolls/signs etc are getting a bit of a bad rap on AT lately and have been likened to 'Keep Calm and Carry On' images because of their apparent popularity in home tours but regardless of that, this is an idea that can definitely be applied to other situations where something long has to be displayed preferably in one piece e.g. art works, fabric, banners etc.

Thanks for sharing your solution with us Catherine. Be sure to stop by Little Green Haus, where Catherine shares all about her home- including her step by step progress with the AT Spring Cure.

[images via Little Green Haus and IKEA]

Comments (16)

clever solution & it looks great!

Ditto. Keep calm and carry on....

This looks excellent and as a ex-Brissie girl, living with an ex-Brissie boy I am insanely jealous.

i disagree about the relationship with 'keep calm' posters. i think that if you have a replica roll or even those screened canvases then, yes it's definitely old hat, but an original scroll is still a great addition to an industrial aesthetic.

This is a really smart solution! Yes, they are popular, but not quite as ubiquitous as the "Keep Calm" posters, and yours is an original to boot.

I don't think roll signs are as horrible as Keep Calm, even as reproductions. We have several authentic ones from Boston and don't consider ourselves trendy simply because we're both transit employees and have a LOT of railroad, subway, and bus signs and other miscellaneous things.

also as an ex-brisbane girl - so jealous!!

It looks great... very clever way to display them!

wikkid solution! love that you can change it up and made it an organic, custom artpiece.

hey AT folks: why is it so bad to enjoy something that others enjoy? is nothing in your house mass-produced?

just askin'.

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Great solution! Also, great point foog! It's strange that people get so much much flak for liking train scrolls, deer heads, Keep Calm posters, Ikea anything, etc. b/c "everyone" has/likes these things, when no one says anything about the hundreds of Knoll lounge chairs, Saarinen tables and Knoll chairs that pop up on house tours. Seems like the same thing to me.

love it. when these start appearing in target like the keep calm posters, pillows, trays, etc then the comparison between the two is apt. foog is right though--we're all influenced significantly by mass production. it's design for the masses, which influences everyone, including the uberrich & the socially exclusive.

foog, bkrafi, gooshwa, et al--

I'm counting on the support of all you NON-Transit-trend haters in the next week or so... I *think* there is a House Tour coming up that you'll find interesting... (with a deer head, too!!)

I saw one of these with destinations from my home town I'd love it as @ ankarli mentions. You've diplayed it well.

What a fantastic solution! I've actually wondered what the homeowners ended up doing. Great follow-up! Thanks!

Good solution, you've been doing some good thinking about your problem, can you cut the roller to any lenght or was it just by chance the width of the scroll matched the ikea barrel? It's not clear from the ikea website?

Hi spacedesign911, my husband cut the metal barrel with a hack saw to make it fit. I am fairly sure it's designed to be cut to whatever width you need. Either way it can be done :)

Thanks everyone for your kind words!

Catherine :)

Cleverness and talent at it's best