Letters are an always present topic in Alex’ and my life. Without even noticing, we have gathered a quite big amount of different letters: wooden letters, electric letters, lego letters, cardboard letters…
As Sofia keeps on growing, her reach is also wider and we needed to find a solution to our picture wall in the entrée as she started grabbing the pictures and throwing them around.
I think the idea came during our holidays in London this summer. Alex discovered a really nice shop called Glyphics Shop. He was so keen to see this shop that he even said he was going to divorce if we were not going!
It is a letter lovers paradise!
You can find letters from all over the world. Brian, the owner, can tell you a story to almost every single letter. He stores the letters in drawers and all over the place. And by the way: what an incredibly pleasant and enthusiastic man he is! If you are travelling to London, make sure you are visiting Brian.
An idea of what the shop looked like when we visited (as the decoration changes):
We decided that we needed to find a word or a phrase we wanted to create with the letters and then come back to find the suitable ones for us.
After some days we knew what we wanted and we spend 2 hours in the shop, on the floor, opening the drawers, taking out letters, combining, changing again until we finally had the chosen ones.
And this is the result in the shop:
And this is how it looks on the wall:
It means ‘welcome home’ in swiss german and is like a welcoming greeting when you enter the door.
We had a helping hand from my father, who painted the wall and put all the letters in place. Most of them are not really heavy, so a simple velcro was enough.
The E is from an old pub, it is a simple wooden letter painted in gold. I wanted to include this one as soon as I discovered it. It almost falls into pieces, but it has a story to tell.
The M was another story. It weights 3 kilos, so you want to make sure it does not come off the wall when going to the bathroom! It has some old nails on the back, so we have used a wire around them and then hung it up on two nails with L shape.
The space below the letters will be a magnetic chalkboard, but this will be done later on this year.
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