Using a Photo Canvas to Document and Decorate Your Renovation

All around the world, the dream is to own your own home, a slice of property that’s all yours and can be passed down to future generations. While new construction homes offer a blank slate on which to place your photo canvas creations and other interior design ideas, an older home often comes with a lot of history, and it’s sometimes difficult to just hit the ‘delete’ button on other people’s lives. Yet older homes often require renovations before you can truly call them yours.

Those same pieces of photo canvas, however, can also be your salvation – because you can incorporate them into your wall art and design plan, simultaneously saving the beautiful history of the home while you renovate and modernise. All it takes is a camera, a reliable and affordable source of cheap canvas prints, and respect for the past.

Documenting a Reno with Photo Canvas Prints

Older homes are often snapshots of past times. When you buy a house that hasn’t been significantly renovated in thirty, forty, or even fifty years, you’re getting a glimpse into a lifestyle that has gone away. The small, tidy kitchens with their shallow counters and small cabinets, the formal dining room that cuts up the main floor – we don’t want to live that way in the modern world, but we can admire the simple beauty of these older rooms.

Before you renovate, pause and take some ‘glamour’ shots of each room. Get some good angles in bright sun that really capture the room’s original charm and intent. When the renovation’s finished and you’ve made the place into your own, you can decorate in a really surprising and charming way by hanging stunning photo canvas pieces on the walls that show what your guests would be looking at if they could travel back in time. In this way you get the best of both worlds: Honouring what has gone before while enjoying a modern design and layout in your home.

Preserving Personal Touches

People who renovate older homes often face a heartbreaking dilemma when they discover the traces of families that lived there before them. When you find the growth chart of several children on a play room wall, or a mural obviously created by expecting parents decades ago, or things hidden in the walls or under floorboards that were once cherished keepsakes – it’s often emotional to think about just tossing them into the garbage.

Incorporating these artefacts into your decor is a wonderful idea – but some things can’t be preserved easily – unless you turn to canvas prints. That charming height chart from previous residents? A good-quality photo and it can remain in the room even as you tear out the wall or paint over it. Any artefact or other piece of history you want to preserve can be turned into stunning wall art that not only makes your rooms more interesting, but also keeps the thread going back to the past unbroken.

Renovation isn’t a giant eraser that seeks to pretend the past never happened. When you’re modernising a great old house, keep your camera handy and your eyes open for details that will make great wall art. When you’ve documented the past we’d love to be part of your future – click here and we’ll turn those picture of the past into awesome photo canvas art.