Posters: Help, Please?

[aunt_zelda]

I've been wondering about posters that I want to take to college. I don't want to damage them, as I paid good money for some of them, but I want to take them with me because I want stuff on my dorm wall. Never mind that the posters I plan on taking are 1) one of Titania with quotes from the play 2) the album cover shot for Where the Wild Roses Grow, which is Kylie Minogue dead in the water with a phallic symbol ... I mean a snake 3) the 'You have Obtained the Vorpal Blade' from Alice: Madness Returns even though I've never played the video game and oh god my roommate is going to think I'm insane. 


I was wondering specifically about that resuable adhesive putty stuff. Anyone had experience with it? I know it won't damage the walls, but will it damage my posters? With it stain them or refuse to come off and tear the edges? Should I stick small pieces of foam or something onto the back of my posters and stick the putty to THAT instead of the paper? 


Or should I just get the postered laminated first? Should I get them framed and chance those "don't damage the walls, hoenst, but don't use them for mirrors or hang things over your bed we deny any liability" hooks I've seen in stores? 





Gah, I need to get back to sorting through eight-years worth of clothing and five years worth of dust. *dives back in*

Comments

[yersi-fanel.livejournal.com]

Most of my poster are actually Cloth Wall Scrolls but for my paper posters I use Poster Hangers, like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Resin-Poster-Hangers-EZ-hang-RichAndFramous/dp/B0048IC50I

You don't have to use anything sticky that way :D

Edit: I have not use that particular brand, mind you, but the ones I got at the story are very usefull.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Do NOT use the putty. Get these; they work beautifully.

[lit-wolf.livejournal.com]

Anything you're really in love with, I'd laminate just to be on the safe side.

Putty is safe for posters but it never seemed to hold mine up. Foam/velcro stickers never work and damage posters, don't bother with those.

If you can find them, there were these gel-like stickers I used one year that worked like a charm. Nothing fell off and no posters were damaged. To my annoyance, I could never remember where I bought the gel stickers from and couldn't find them ever again.

Good luck with your posters!

[awesome-emmy.livejournal.com]

I highly, highly suggest laminating any posters you care about. No matter how careful you are with them, they will get damaged. There's so much going on when you try to move in and out of a dorm and even if you safely get them on the walls, you don't know what could happen when you move out. You should see the edges of some of my posters, I've pretty much stopped caring, except right when an edge tears a small part of me dies.

As for what to use, I'm not sure. I've always just used normal tape. Whatever you do, don't use that double-sided foamy tape. That stuff rips the paint off walls like it was made for it XD