Awesome Puzzle Wall
About a year or so ago when we were still trying to decide on a housing development and floor plan in the metro Atlanta area, we came across a house and floor plan that we fell in love with. Unfortunately, the development the house was located in wasn’t exactly what we were looking for so we ended up moving on. I had forgotten all about an awesome room just off the master that the model had turned into a kid’s play room, complete with a custom jigsaw puzzle wall. I loved the wall immediately and thought…I want to do that someday in my house.
I thought of my puzzling friend Tom in the USVI who is the most avid puzzler I have met to date. He and his wife seem to eat and breathe puzzles, and I thought they would really like this wall too. So, this morning Derek and I went back over to this development, took pictures of the room, and went through the model again…I still LOVE the floor plan of this house!!!! Here is the puzzle wall.
You can virtually frame this wall in any way you’d like based on the size of the puzzles you’re planning to display. I could see doing some bigger frames to accomodate 1,000 to 2,000 piece puzzles if the wall were big enough. It looks like the home designers simply adhered each puzzle directly to the wall with some sort of glue or contact cement type of adhesive. They look rock solid. And of course, you could change the painted frames to suit whatever colors you want to enhance from the puzzles that are displayed as well.
I am definitely going to do this idea at some point, but it will have to be with smaller pictures than the Life or World Maps puzzles for sure.
10 thoughts on “Awesome Puzzle Wall”
AWESOME! Love it. M really wants a puzzle wall! We kind of have one in our bedroom now! Have you seen that?
Yes, I saw the one you guys did in your bedroom with a bunch of different ones, but I kind of like the idea of the frames around them better. You could still mount them like you have to the foam board and then put the frames on the wall…that would give it a cool 3-d look too.
Very cool. Great way to store them once they are done. I haven't figured out my method yet. I've never left a puzzle together. I've always torn them apart and sold them. This is definitely inspirational.
I would probably only keep and mount the ones I really liked. You're going to be looking at it for years and years, you want to make sure you like the picture. LOL
Cool!!!!
Hello, I am not sure you are still around but I need help on this. I am a volunteer at Restoration Rome in Rome, Ga. We would love to do this puzzle wall but are having a hard time as all we have to go on is this picture. Did you ever do something like this? I would love to talk to you if you did. Info on Restoration Rome can be found at restorationrome.org.
Hi Lynne! Thanks for contacting me. This puzzle wall was one I saw at a model home I toured in GA. I haven’t built my own yet, but do plan to. I am an avoid puzzler and would be happy to talk with you about this. I don’t think it would be difficult to do. The first thing you want to do is determine all the puzzles you want to include in your wall. What sizes they are, etc. Then lay them out if you can on a floor somewhere to get a good feel for how you want to lay them out. Also, how much space do you want to allow between your puzzles and frames? How many bare areas do you want to have as just painted spaces without a puzzle on it.
I can’t believe you are still here! Thank you for contacting me! We have gotten someone in the graphic arts field to lay it all out based on the measurements of our walls and the measurements of the puzzles that we have so far. Do you know what type of wood they used as the borders? With RR being a nonprofit, we are finding that this is the expensive part. Lattice is about $1 a foot. From the picture, the framing looks perfect. I can’t see any gaps where the vertical and horizontal runs connect.
Every time I see this picture while searching for examples, it always leads me back to your post! 🙂
I would suggest using trim board. That is easily found at home depot, Lowes, or other type of lumber store. They usually come in long strips and can be cut to various sizes to use as frames. U will also want to make diagonal cuts so u can join them as frames.
Here is one example. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Alexandria-Moulding-Craftsman-1-2-in-x-5-1-2-in-x-96-in-Primed-MDF-Base-Moulding-121X6-96096C/302681059
Any flat trim / moulding would work. U just need to make sure you have a skill saw in border to be able to cut the angles correctly in order to make a frame and going each of the four sides together. Good luck. Please send me a pic when its done. I cannot wait to see it!