As most of you know, I pride myself on being a geek! I love comic books, video games, playing HeroClix, and Magic: The Gathering – I am a total Fangirl. So I have created “FanGirl Fridays” where I will try my best to bring you reviews and rambling of a geeky, nerdy nature! I am really excited about this. If there is anything specific you would like me to talk about, please feel free to leave it in the comments or email me, I will try my best to get to it.
For my first FanGirl Friday I am going to bring you step by step instructions on how to make a “Comic Book Room”. This can actually be applied to making your own wallpaper out of pretty much anything, but I used it to make a comic book room. This room was in our Florida house and I miss it so much. I loved curling up on the chaise and catching up on my comics, putting together models, or playing Magic: The Gathering. It was a lot of work but it was a whole ton of fun!
Simple Steps
Step 1: Buy duplicate comics! Don’t cut up your comics. Please, please, please buy duplicates of the ones you want to destroy! Make sure to purchase some posters too for size variety.
Step 2: Go through them and find your favorite photos and scenes. Some of our favorite things that we put on the wall were Spider-man’s witty banter with a criminal or Iron Man’s drunken ramblings.
Step 3: Get yourself some wallpaper paste. Plain old wallpaper paste. It took us about 4 gallons of it to do this room.
Step 4: Get to gluin’. Cover the backs of the pages and posters in wallpaper paste and place them where you want them to go. Feel free to put them in a corner – having them go from one wall to the next. This creates a really cool effect and helps pull the room together. Use a scraper to even them out and get rid of any wrinkles.
Step 5: Decorate! After the walls are dry, go ahead and add shelves to display any cool models or figures you have.
Step 6: Enjoy your geeky space!
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34 Comments
That is a super cool idea for anyone that loves comics. I don’t even know where to buy a comic book lol.
At a comic book store 😉
Wow that is amazing! My boys would absolutely adore this. Spider man and Iron man are their favorites. I can sense a new room theme coming.
Those are my favorites! You can even just do one wall as an accent wall. It wasn’t that bad coming off either. When we had to sell the house and I was taking it down, I almost cried, haha!
This is soooo awesome! I love it. I love my gamer geek friend ^_^ I love all of your DIY ideas and I love your Fan Girl Friday idea!! Awesome job!
Thank you hun! 🙂 Love you too!
Awesome! I like comic books also.. and am a computer geek.. I used to have a spiderman toy that climbed up the walls when i was younger.
That sounds awesome!!! I wish I had that toy! Haha
It looks awesome! I will try this for my boy! 🙂
WOW! my son would love a room like this- thanks for sharing!
oh my goodness I love those walls! So creative!
I want this room! It’s so cool! I know that hubby would LOVE if those walls were in our home!
Woah! That’s incredible! I wasn’t never into comics but man do I have a few friends that would die over this! Thanks for sharing!
I let my kids put anything they wanted on their walls, but I never thought about doing something like this. Neat idea!
Oh my goodness, do I LOVE this room!!! Is this on Pinterest?
Thank you! I worked hard on it but it came out amazing! Yes it is right here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/9570217934495099/
VERY cool room! Could be done with any magazines and posters obviously – great inspired idea! Love it!
OMG! I hope my fiance doesn’t see this article. He will want this so bad.
I love this!! This is really cool! I know my boys would have a fit over this
This is awesome. What a super cool room. Looks like it took a lot of work but sounds like fun. It would make a great family project.
WOAH!!! You are a genius!! This. Is. Amazing.
But seriously, what?! I am speechless. Looks fantastic. Adding to my stumbles!
Thank you so much!! I am so glad you like it! It was a lot of hard work, but turned out awesome!
Wow! The comic book room is very creative and fun. What a great idea for a unique decoration.
You did a stunning job. I would love a room like that with all my favorite magazines creating a beautiful collage for wallpaper. I love this! 🙂
I just love this idea. What a great way to personalize a room! Great work!
Very cute. My little boys nursery is superheroes
WOW!
OMG that room is amazing!
I am not a comic book fan, but WOW that room is AMAZING!! If I had a kid that was into comics I would totally try to decorate their room like that!!
My son would flip if I could do this in his room… too bad I’m in a rental 🙁 Such a amazing Idea though very creative!!
My son would love to have this done to his room. He is such a fanboy
My husband must wish to have this kind of room full of Star Wars wall papers.
This is just amazing!!!
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