Sweet new addition to my living room wall. Walked past this for months at the local pet store. Today I caved.

Got canoe country (related) decor? Let’s see it.

JW

My kitchen wall is a large framed map with stuff drawn all over the glass in dry erase. Old routes, dream routes, etc. Plus one of the bwca signs.

My basement will have the even larger true north wall map once I hang it up finally. To the OP...I see your chair and rolled up map too haha

Out taste in books seems to be similar.

This was a canvas print we had made from a picture we took on Ella Hall

deepdish71: "


This was a canvas print we had made from a picture we took on Ella Hall"

My wife and I were discussing this option with pictures that I have or will take in the future.

Is that an expensive thing to do?

JWilder: "

deepdish71: "



This was a canvas print we had made from a picture we took on Ella Hall"

My wife and I were discussing this option with pictures that I have or will take in the future.


Is that an expensive thing to do?"

I believe it was about $100 or so. I think it was worth it.

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Outstanding!

I've done the canvas route too (but not canoe country themed) and I like it for the price/quality. It's no HD print but it's a very easy way to get cool stuff on the wall for not a ton of money.

cyclones30: "My kitchen wall is a large framed map with stuff drawn all over the glass in dry erase. Old routes, dream routes, etc. Plus one of the bwca signs.


My basement will have the even larger true north wall map once I hang it up finally. To the OP...I see your chair and rolled up map too haha






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Maps. Who doesn't like a good map on the wall? In the kitchen even!

I forgot about these....living room and office.

When a small framing shop was in business a few years ago in town I had them do a lot.

A couple shots from an EP 16 trip in the frame and raised off the background. Curtain falls, a tiger bay site, etc.


Then a large print framed of a really foggy morning from the same trip. Last morning, stayed on Nina Moose to have a short paddle out since it's a 9 hour drive back or so. That's our camp with tents on the point, had just caught a bunch of fish and it was super calm. Hard to get a picture here to show what it really looks like even when I took it off the wall. Same with the upper one, looks far better in person without glare and trying to take a picture of a framed picture

No telling if I posted right. I have everything in one room. Here’s some of it.

Big map:







Van is from a fundraiser on here:







Random things:

Nice map duckman, same guy as me just different color palette!

cyclones30: "Nice map duckman, same guy as me just different color palette! "

Took me a while to figure out how to frame it. Because of its size, a real deal frame would be too expensive and heavy.

Ended up going to Home Depot and getting some cheap baseboard and nailing them together for a frame on the wall.

I don't have any pics but I doubt many could best housty9's lay out. His entire upstairs 3 rooms? is wall to wall and (some ceilings) canoe stuff. Mostly the B-Dub.

Not trying to beat out anyone, but I can also say that our home is a place where anyone would know that we go to the canoe country.

When we were in Ely at the Kess Gallery many years ago I fell in love with a moose watercolor by Keith Thompson. After agonizing over it for a while, going to get lunch and talking about nothing else, my dear husband encouraged me to buy it. We did go back and purchase it and I also got some information about the artist.






A few years later I contacted Keith and asked him to do a commission for me from one of my photographs. To make a long story short, he made a large painting of Spartan1 standing on the shore of Loon Lake, and it has a place of honor in our front hallway, so that it is the first thing someone sees when they come in the front door.





As I look around our home, I realize that most of the decor is canoe country-related. There is a canvas above our mantel that I had made from one of Spartan1's favorites of my photos.





And it goes on and on. Except for the kitchen, every room has something on the walls that is either a Keith Thompson watercolor (we have five now) or some sort of reproduction of one of my photographs. Several items of Mitch Anderson's wonderful leather work, too.

To make it worse--we have a lake cottage. The walls there are covered with large poster-size photos of our canoes, of loons, eagles, and herons. I sometimes joke that I have made the cottage into my "gallery", but it isn't far from the truth.

A couple canvas prints we have on our wall.

This is a website photo. In the basement family room at our old house, I had this wall mural on the main wall. It's called "Lake in the Woods" and I thought of Quetico every time I looked at it. It measured about 13' wide by 8'6" tall. Fit the northwoods theme for my man cave.

My wife painted this pictograph canvas before we were married. She loved the canoe country too.

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We have a winner!

But seriously, there are some nice wilderness reminders posted.
Really like Spartan’s watercolors and I like the frozen Lake Agnes region Quetico map.

Absolutely beautiful stuff everyone! A lot of personalized pictures, which really elevates the worth of them.

Yes, the water colors look great Spartan2. 3ball, you have boats hanging from your ceiling, outstanding. Jackfish, I like the wall mural. Take out all the furniture, throw in a couple helinox chairs and you are sitting on a campsite, albeit climate controlled...

Here are a couple more that I have, but certainly not as great as what you all have shared on this thread.

Some of the lakes I’ve base camped on.

I gotta lotta. The magazines look much better in person than photographed. That glass reflects like crazy.



That first magazine belongs to someone else at this site, but I can't remember who. I acquired a pristine copy of that issue and so sent that mag to a fellow bwca.com-er.

Linda, I love that watercolor of Neil.

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Gorgeous boats. I'd love to sit in that room to gaze and smile.

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Outstanding!"

The black and white canvas is 36" x 48" and was about $70. Someone had a satellite image of The Quetico and Saganaga, pre-ice out. Some of that may not be water. It goes really well with our black and grey them in our 4-season porch. I've been to the west end of Sag about 4 dozen times, so it resonated with me.

Jackfish: "
This is a website photo. In the basement family room at our old house, I had this wall mural on the main wall. It's called "Lake in the Woods" and I thought of Quetico every time I looked at it. It measured about 13' wide by 8'6" tall. Fit the northwoods theme for my man cave. "

OMG, I LOVE THAT!! I would love to have a wall like that in my basement. It would help me get through the winters.

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Jackfish: ""

OMG, I LOVE THAT!! I would love to have a wall like that in my basement. It would help me get through the winters."

Just Google "Lake in the Woods wall mural" and you'll find options of where to buy. I really loved having that on the wall in our family room.

Three of the wood canvas we restored. Birchbarks taken by Ferde Goode, a Philip Goodwin, and a Frances Hopkins.

Canoe Country Decor - NW Ontario.

Another

Oil painting by the great Dave Gilsvik of Two Harbors. This is a perfect image of a very special place. With that said, I'm guessing the artist would say its a different lake than the one I see, or even just a scene from his imagination. No matter. I'm just happy to be its keeper until a kid or grandkid gets it.

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cyclones30: "Nice map duckman, same guy as me just different color palette! "

Took me a while to figure out how to frame it. Because of its size, a real deal frame would be too expensive and heavy.


Ended up going to Home Depot and getting some cheap baseboard and nailing them together for a frame on the wall."

Duckman & cyclones30, I have the same excellent 63" wide map and have been wracking my brain on how to hanging it right. Are yours the adhesive backed version? Did you laminated it or glass the front and then frame it to the wall? I was thinking of tacking it to the wall and framing it in molding but wondered about protecting the map surface. What are your thoughts? Thanks martian

martian: "

Duckman: "

cyclones30: "Nice map duckman, same guy as me just different color palette! "

Took me a while to figure out how to frame it. Because of its size, a real deal frame would be too expensive and heavy.



Ended up going to Home Depot and getting some cheap baseboard and nailing them together for a frame on the wall."

Duckman & cyclones30, I have the same excellent 63" wide map and have been wracking my brain on how to hanging it right. Are yours the adhesive backed version? Did you laminated it or glass the front and then frame it to the wall? I was thinking of tacking it to the wall and framing it in molding but wondered about protecting the map surface. What are your thoughts? Thanks martian"

Mine is the thicker material, not just normal map paper. So it’s pretty durable.

My big concern was being able to move it without having a permanent five and half foot wide framed map. So I used a few small tacs and painters tape to put in on the wall and framed it in molding. Then when I’ve moved I just take the framing down and roll up the map.

I’m happy with it. And I don’t have any kids or anything running around so no risk of the map ever getting damaged.

Surprised no Brandenburg yet.OK I'll take care of that.

Ya, that's right. Thats a autographed picture of Gale Sayer

Replica sign my brother made for our wedding present with his CNC router.

My entire house is.. lol Even parts of my kids names.

Great thread and I've enjoyed everyone's canoe country decor! I've got a few items up as well.

Yogi59weedr- I see we have the same taste in prints!

martian - mine is the regular map (heavy paper) but no adhesive or laminate or anything extra from the map maker. I eventually took it to a frame shop and had it done so it's in its own frame behind glass ready to hang anywhere now. A little spendy yes...but it's THE feature thing on my wall and I write on the glass all the time and erase and whatnot. (other than my past routes that stay written on for now)

Thanks again Duckman and cyclones30 - I finally got up the gumption to get my canoe/BWCA motif going in my dungeon. I'm no finish carpenter or interior decorator but it's at least on the wall finally. Still have additional pictures & maps to hang and the paddles will likely hang horizontally eventually. Just getting started I guess. Thanks all for the inspiration.

martian: "
Thanks again Duckman and cyclones30 - I finally got up the gumption to get my canoe/BWCA motif going in my dungeon. I'm no finish carpenter or interior decorator but it's at least on the wall finally. Still have additional pictures & maps to hang and the paddles will likely hang horizontally eventually. Just getting started I guess. Thanks all for the inspiration.
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Nice! I like it. I also like the Tank 7 up on the shelf

I took my ex wife on a canoe trip .
When we got home she gave this to me....She got the house. I got the picture...

martian: "
Thanks again Duckman and cyclones30 - I finally got up the gumption to get my canoe/BWCA motif going in my dungeon. I'm no finish carpenter or interior decorator but it's at least on the wall finally. Still have additional pictures & maps to hang and the paddles will likely hang horizontally eventually. Just getting started I guess. Thanks all for the inspiration.
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In my opinion, there's no debate. Greatest player to ever play the game!

cyclones30-Yes, Tank7 is one tasty brew. Boulevard has so many now I can't keep up. If you're ever in KC check out their Brewery tour. It's top notch. Comes with drinks of course. Currently limited or suspended due to Covid unfortunately.
Speckled-He's one of my most admired players. He exemplified how the game should be played on so many levels. A complete package all around back. It was fitting he got a Super Bowl win after all those years of effort. Definitely high on a short list of the all time greats of any era. Sadly gone before his time.

Sorry back to decor.

Man, I need to have a canoe country photo of mine converted to canvas. Every one that I have seen looks amazing.

I used to be able to get Boulevard Brewing in my area. Haven't seen it in awhile. I enjoyed their unfiltered wheat beer on a hot day.

I have the map from Etsy hanging in the basement, but the top canoe country decor at our house is the paddles in the living room. I have a soft spot for Sanborn paddles, but my favorite is the Glorud Wave, which also paddles really nicely with the double bend. Actually they all paddle well. My wife doesn’t think the Glorud “fits” as well with the others, so it usually hangs in my office.

All of these have been to BWCA this except the newest one that I didn’t get until last fall and the beavertail, which is my river paddle (mostly upper Mississippi).

Outdoor decor all over the house. Canoe stuff, deer, ducks.....its everywhere. Just a few shots of a few things. (I made the board for the outfitter decals....calendar pic in middle....hangs above my desk in map room)

cowdoc: "Outdoor decor all over the house. Canoe stuff, deer, ducks.....its everywhere. Just a few shots of a few things. (I made the board for the outfitter decals....calender pic in middle....hangs above my desk in map room) "

Love those decals!

I've been considering piecing all the mckenzie maps together for a wall like they have a Piragis in Ely. Has anyone else done this?

dudz3636: "Replica sign my brother made for our wedding present with his CNC router.
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Hey Dudz... do you think your brother would be interested in making another one of those BWCA signs? I certainly would compensate him nicely.

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dudz3636: "Replica sign my brother made for our wedding present with his CNC router.
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Hey Dudz... do you think your brother would be interested in making another one of those BWCA signs? I certainly would compensate him nicely."

I’m also very interested in purchasing one of these.

I've got one more piece for all of you fisherman out there. A Cast Iron Walleye Anchor that was given to me as a Christmas gift.

Unique if nothing else.

Nice pancake flipper

Mocha: "Nice pancake flipper"

A wasp and/or hornet has no mach for that thing...