Seems so affected.

i love this idea in theory, but i think in reality i would grow tired of reading the same quote over and over. though, if they're affordable enough (i didn't check pricing) maybe you could swap 'em out on a regular basis.

When I first saw this I was intrigued, but something was rubbing me the wrong way. Then I decided that quotes belong on coffee cups and fridge magnets, if that.

The WG people were very helpful when I wanted to design something for my entrance hallway - I have a simpel "Bienvenue" in script with a scroll-y thing underneath, and am very happy with it.

Wonderful Graffiti quoted outrageous prices for a simple foot tall request of iine of two characters in white. And that wasn't even including the shipping....

$30 for two characters is insane.....

First off. I'm in the vinyl letter trade.
i have made this stuff up for some decorator clients.
Frosted vinyl text in bathrooms is the most popular.
Personally, I agree with the comment that it makes a space look forced or scripted.
Thanks for verbalising my thoughts about this.

If you really want to do it.
make it as innocuous as you can with the text you choose and the font.
In the end it's easier and cheaper to get a sign shop to make up the text, exactly the way you want it.

...price guidelines: $1.oo/letter, based on 1 inch letters. Increase, or decrease the price depending on the size you want.
Go smaller than you think you want.
The shop deserves to charge a minimum.

reminds me of those cheesy motivational posters you seen hanging in the human resources dept. or advertised in sky mall.

I think that if I were to have writing on my walls, I would want it to be something at least as complex as a Shakespeare sonnet.

Ahhhh vinyl graphics vinyl graphics... they are on every blog, for every age, for every room!

Truth of the matter is, all you have to do is take a design made in a vector program to a store with a vinyl plotter and have them make it.
Any car detailing place or sign making place should have them now.

A picture paints a thousand words; but if you caption it with 21 words, all of a sudden it only paints 21 words.

I think the wall words are extremely cheesy.

As both a writer and a designer, this is a perfect marriage of my two great loves. Brava!

Cute now, silly in about 6 months.

Jim and Chris,

Agree with you that something is "off" about having these in a private home (agree with others that it's perfectly cool for libraries and other public places).

In the first photo, that room, and wall color, and little wooden bench are warm and welcoming, and the Emerson quote offers a great message, but I don't think it's necessary to beat your guests over the head with "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it" by displaying the message in big letters on the wall. Why not just concentrate on providing the type of hospitality that would make your guests FEEL that message.

Then there's the expletive with double exclamation marks on the staircase. Why in the world would anyone want to see that day in and day out? Just seeing it in the photo gets me in a negative mood.

Josh, your idea of running a long quote, (or a favorite passage from a novel, may I suggest) along all 24 feet from your front door, up the stairs, and down to the MBR sounds like a creative and intriguing idea. I'd just like to suggest that you keep the lettering (a nice script font would be good) small enough so that at a distance, the quote on the wall simply looks likes a decorative border. That way visitors will be pleasantly surprised when they walk up to the decorative border and realize there's a message waiting for them. (please do not make the font size too big so that the words and lettering overpower the room, as in photos #1 and #2 above.)

Chris, I think the word is "twee."

The Mary Englebreit magazine, Home Companion, had a spread on McPhail's home. She loves words and uses them in multiple ways from different sizes and materials throughout her home. It is charming, eclectic and very self-expressive. Her home, as a form of self-expression, made me wish I knew her.

Some of us have words woven throughout our daily lives. Spoken, the world is a constant, potential canvas. Written, it transports us to other worlds. To take words into the expression of self in our home is a natural that she just made easier.

For those of you who are snobs regarding country, shabby chic, flea market style etc... Home Companion is showcasing an increasing number of spaces that are an interesting mix of modern with other eras and places. There is some really fun stuff in there for those of us who like things mixed.

I have never particularly liked the concept of paint/stenciling/etc quotes on a wall in one's home. But I think the ideas captured in the other photos are interesting. The one of the stairs made me laugh, I would do that if I could.

Violetsrose, it's just the light. Beautiful stairs, though.

I was also familiar with wallwords.com for years before I ever heard of Wonderful Graffiti. And the reason I've never done it is that I could never settle on one quote. It's one thing to write stuff on walls in pencil as a teenager, or offer paint brushes to friends when they come over when you're that age, but I don't know that I'd commit to any of this as an adult. Except maybe something not in English. (Somehow a Latin quote seems like it would be OK, but I'm pretentious like that.)

What I remember about the article in Home Companion was that much was made of McPhail's move to a "small house" in Bexley when she left the advertising industry. Bexley is actually one of the most upscale suburbs in Columbus, near the Franklin Park Conservatory and several of our snootiest private schools. The OH Governor's Mansion is in Bexley. It's not really very "downscale" - in contrast to the way the article made it seem - a downscaler from Bexley would normally move to Clintonville (mostly Craftsman bungalows) or something like that! But maybe they wanted to stay in the neighborhood. Nothing wrong with living in Bexley per se, but the tone of the magazine article - that the move had been a big step down - irritated me.

... also, before the photos loaded, I was going to say that anyone interested in having words on the wall but worried that they'd get tired of the same quotes every day could use chalkboard paint in some area and change the quote every so often.

Then I looked at the photos... and, well, there's chalkboard paint. But the way it's used here looks too static and installed to me. You might as well just use regular paint and a paint marker to fill in or circle the letters.

I see nothing cheesy about the vinyl wall words. I love them! I found a place (Right On The Walls) that uses matte vinyl and does a wonderful job for a reasonable rate. Their designs are nice and they add new ones all the time. Not all of their designs are phrases either. If you get tired of your lettering, take it off and put a new one up. That's what I do!

I bought mine from www.RightOnTheWalls.com

I found another great website, you can design your own canvas vinyl banners and vinyl decals at www.esigns.com right from your computer. They ship next day and their Window Vinyl Decals can be applied on any wall or window inside or out. Hope it helps!

mmmmm ... vinyl graphics vinyl graphics.

http://www.wall-print.com