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.