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You could get a similar look by buying wallpaper that you like (don't have any specific recommendations, sorry, but there's plenty of talk about them online) and then use these hangers (http://www.posterhanger.com/).

ikea has an almost identical tree graphic hanging panel for around $20

Is this a trick question?

IKEA, silly rabbit!

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40122212

they havethe hardware and various panel styles for pennies on the Inhabit dollar

I love the Inhabit Timber panels, too, but just couldn't afford $350 for the set. The IKEA tree panels (linked above) really didn't do it for me when I saw them in the store.

So, here's what I did:

Table runners! They're narrower at 14", but generally 6 feet long. I purchased three on sale from CB2 for less than $10 each. They're now discontinued, but you may be able to find them on ebay, etc. Here's a peak: http://reviews.cb2.com/7259/4388/reviews.htm

Many other cool, modern table runners are available if you look around. Try CB2, West Elm, Pier One, Target, etc.

And, I found these clear poster hangers for only $2.50 a set, and they easily cut to size with a pair of sissors: http://www.frameplace.com/xhanger.htm

Good luck!

I have a 9-foot Anno Uni panel hanging in a tall space near my front door, and everyone thinks it's an expensive textile. FYI, if you want to hang it from a rod, you need to sew a rod pocket. They are unhemmed to work with the Ikea panel system.

Buy some wallpaper:

http://www.nest-living.com/collections/wallpaper

Then get some of those Danish Poster hangers designed by Jorgen Moller:

http://www.posterhanger.com/

easy.

The panels IKEA sells weren't to my taste either, but I did buy the ceiling fixtures, I then bought some panels of curtain fabric and attached to the IKEA fixings and hey presto a cheap but creative solution!

thetroll,

Easy, yeah, but two rolls of that beautiful Cavern wallpaper (it's only 15' long) the poster hangers would actually cost *more* than the 3-panel set of Inhabit flats!

@Almost AD

Perhaps you should buy the Fermliving paper, which is 30ft long and only $115 a roll?

Ikea, or you could make your own

I saw an HGTV show once where they blew up a horizontal picture onto banner type 'fabric' at Kinko's, and then mounted them on curtain rods (top and bottom) by sewing the edges to make a track for them, or those poster hangers would work, too. Sorry, I can't find any link to it online, but it would give the same effect as the 2nd example of what you have above.

http://www.fedex.com/us/office/marketing/signsbanners/banners/indoor.html

http://www.fedex.com/us/office/marketing/signsbanners/banners/durablevinyl.html

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I'll have to do more research into the idea of using table runners or wallpaper - they look like some pretty good alternatives.

Thanks again!

Try Urban outfitters - they have a birch tree mural that might work

Try a fabric store.

I was in a slightly better local store (not a chain like JoAnn's) and they had some decorative panels for curtains that could easily be modified into "tapestries" in this way.