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million wall free plans: how to make a
Million Wall
Basic Description

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 We hear about a 'million' all of the time: a million people, a million dollars, a million years etc. It's difficult, though, to get a handle on the concept of a million. This fun project addresses the issue and simultaneously transforms your wall into a conversation piece. You simply paste 100 sheets of paper in a grid pattern over a large painted square area of your wall. Each of the sheets contains 10,000 dots (from the file included below) and the whole wall yields the million dots right in front of you to ponder. Read on for all the details; the plan itself is free!
 
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Design Considerations


size and shape

  • Instead of painting a large square background, you can paint an entire wall with that color.
  • Arrange the sheets in a different orientation than 10 x 10; for example 4 x 25, 5 x 20, 2 x 50, 1 x 100. With some calculation, you may be able to arrange a 2 x 50 stripe around the perimeter of a room.
  • You can orient the pages as a diamond instead of as a square; simply follow the directions in the plan above but rotate everything by 45 degrees. Note that you will need a taller wall to accommodate for a diamond orientation, specifically 10' 8" (3172mm).
 the completed million wall

color

  • In the plan we used black paint, but of course you can use any color you want.
  • An interesting alternative is to paint the square by swirling paint on with a sponge using a faux technique: much of this will be covered by the sheets but the small gutters and borders that remain become very interesting.
  • You can use alternative color papers and you can use more than one color paper making a checkerboard pattern, for example.
you can use more than one paper color to create a pattern

 
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