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Decorating Advice - Game Board Maps
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Michael "Ice" Berg
United States
Acworth
Georgia
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I've been looking a way to decorate my room and turn it into an official Gaming Den. My girlfriend had the great idea of using boards from board games to decorate the walls - specifically ones with maps.So help me out! I need an excuse to buy more games to find games with beautiful boards as maps. I'll then find a way to mount them so that the games are still playable - so gameplay is also important. Thanks!
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Posted Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:43 am
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Well, I'll go first. Not sure what kind of maps you're looking for, but Portobello Market definitely contains one of my favorite boards. Full of details (Westminster Abbey looks awesome), and great quality overall. The game itself is merely "good" in my opinion, but it's quick fun anyway and the board is just a pleasure to look at! 
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Chris Ferejohn
United States
San Francisco
California
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Sort of an example and a counter-example. This board *looks* fantastic, but there are some big empty areas on it (i.e. the ocean) that could have been used for something. Also the board art sometimes obscures the scoring track, which is kind of annoying.
But it terms of pure aesthetics (and I'll have to admit there's something indulgent about a giant board with a ton of empty space), it's pretty awesome.
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Jari Keinänen
Finland
Jyväskylä
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No need to settle for just one box, you could decorate the whole wall with these tiles.  AND you could change the layout again and again, and maybe write some subliminal messages with roads.
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LC
United States
Florissant
Colorado
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What about this?
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LC
United States
Florissant
Colorado
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...or this?
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LC
United States
Florissant
Colorado
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Board Game: Liberté
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Charles Hasegawa
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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This one is not part of the game, but a user map that you could get printed...
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Michael Hellyer
United States
Aurora
Illinois
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This is not a good photo, but I've always thought some nice clean hex wargame maps such as A-H Waterloo or A-H Stalingrad would look nice on walls, particularly behind glass in frames.
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Posted Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:55 am
Alameda
California
Wrocław
Dolny Śląsk
Although one could bolt or nail or glue pictures to a wall, there also exist certain clever techniques of hanging pictures on a wall in such a way that they may be removed (perhaps to lay them horizontally on a gaming table, hypothetically speaking) and later rehung at the same place on the wall. A consultation with an expert at a framing shop or hardware store may help.
Mesa
Arizona
Although one could bolt or nail or glue pictures to a wall, there also exist certain clever techniques of hanging pictures on a wall in such a way that they may be removed (perhaps to lay them horizontally on a gaming table, hypothetically speaking) and later rehung at the same place on the wall. A consultation with an expert at a framing shop or hardware store may help.
Acworth
Georgia
A good question, and still being debated. The first idea was to attach hooks on the top of the boards, but I don't want to damage the boards, and I also want to make sure they lie flat.
Another idea is to have a top and bottom edge on the wall with a lip, so that the gameboard could slide in and out easily.
Steubenville
Ohio