Decorating Your Room With Taylor

Acquired a new Taylor poster that just has to go on the wall? Or multiple posters that came out of your favourite magazine? Or framed a special photo, CD single or autograph? Moved house and need to start decorating? Have a posters/photos to wall space ratio problem? 

Everyone has these issues and this is what I'm going to write about today after facing all of this at some point.

That moment when you invite your friends around to watch a movie cause you have your house to yourself with the parents away and they bring a poster book that has a massive A2 sized poster of Taylor inside that is just perfect and you have to find somewhere to hang it. I'm sure everyone has faced this or will have this issue at some point. An excellent example of this is The RED Tour poster that came in the tour book, I had it up within 2 days of going to The RED Tour and had to take down 2 other smaller posters just to get it on the wall.

Do you take all your posters down, put the big one up and then arrange the smaller ones around it? Or just take down the posters needed to fit your big one in? I personally think its going to be easier for you to take everything down and start again. Sometimes other posters don't look good next to other ones and then you just have to take them down anyway. 

I recommend with any poster bigger than A3 or double sided gets laminated. This stops the posters sagging and bending on the wall and you having to constantly fix them, while also prevents your method of sticking the poster to the wall from ruining the other side of the poster to the wall. Every poster/photo of mine that I have printed off myself or got from a poster book has been laminated. 

I met Taylor in Club RED and of course you have to display your photo with Taylor somewhere. A computer print out of your photo is just not going to cut it for your wall. You need the full professional print out and framing of the sacred photo. My parents agreed to buy me to nice black frames for Christmas so I could display some of my photos from the concerts in frames that are displayed in a 'T' shape. Along with my framed photo with Taylor, I framed the Club RED pass. Other things perfect for framing are the 8x10 photos off Taylor's online store or a numbered CD single.

You need somewhere to hang these frames and often involves taking down multiple posters or other photos to get them on the wall. Hanging the frames is well worth it though as it makes your room look very smart when its not just all posters covering the walls.

Moving house can be a good thing. In my case I have gained the biggest room in the house and now have more wall space than I know what to do with right now. I think the best idea for decorating and new room is to start with the posters you can't live without them being on your wall and go from there as to what space you have left and what would look best where.

Limited wall space allows you to constantly rotate posters around so every once in a while your room has a completely different look and feel to it. Even with the massive amount of wall space I now have, I am not going to fill the walls up completely with Taylor so I have no wall space left. There is a difference between displaying your love for Taylor with class and having so many posters up that it just looks messy. Everyone will have there own opinion on this and I think you don't need a huge amount of posters spread across your walls to show your true colours. 

The Joy Of Moving House

Don't you just hate that time when your moving house and you have to take down every single picture and poster of Taylor?

I do and I have just has to do just that. I have put it off for as long as I can and now with just 2 days before my family and I move house everything is gone apart from my photo frames which contains my photo with Taylor. Blank walls are so boring and just very sad when you don't have Taylor's smiling face looking back at you all day.

If I wasn't working for the next 2 days and on the day of the move, Taylor would still have the perfect presence in my room. Alas I am so everything is ready to be rolled up to put in the poster tube for the move.

Of course the upside to moving house this time is I get a bigger room and that means more wall space for more Taylor posters/pictures. The hard task of getting the display on your walls just right begins as soon as you move in. Designing your new room takes you hours to get right all while spending more time dancing and singing along to Taylor instead of actually putting up your large collection of posters/pictures.

Looking Back At One Year Of The RED Tour

So as you know on Thursday it was one year since the RED Tour kicked off in Omaha, Nebraska for the start of Taylor's 66 date stadium and arena tour of North America which has been followed by 3 New Zealand arena and 4 Australian stadium dates, 5 London arena dates and 1 Germany arena date. The RED Tour continues in June 2014 in Asia.

Taylor started The RED Tour on Wednesday 13 March 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska with 2 sold out arena shows and has continued to sell out every show on her tour. March 13 got of to a great start with the first look preview of Taylor's new music video for her song "22" on Good Morning America. The full video was released at 11am Eastern time and has been played every night on tour while Taylor has been performing 22.

Taylor brought someone special on the road around North America with her to open up her shows. Ed Sheeran. Taylor has a song on RED called Everything Has Changed Feat. Ed Sheeran and the duet was performed each night of the North American tour. Ed Sheeran was amazing opening up each night of The RED Tour playing mostly an acoustic set with the help of a loop pedal. Other opening acts for the North American The RED Tour included Casey James, Austin Mahone, Florida Georgia Line, Brett Eldredge and Joel Crouse.

Taylor started making her way around America with The RED Tour first heading towards the eastern cities with the first stadium on May 4th in Detroit, Michigan with a crowd of 50k screaming fans hanging off her every word and movement. While in Detroit, Taylor also recorded interviews which would see The RED Tour continue past the currently announced 66 dates, by announcing the New Zealand and Australia dates. Additional New Zealand arena dates were later announced due to demand.

Taylor continued her tour of North America heading north into Canada for 4 stadium and 2 arena shows across Canada which marked the first concert to played at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg on June 22. Post Canada, Taylor started a month long run of stadium concerts through July in Pittsburgh, East Rutherford, Philadelphia and Foxborough. One concert was held on a Saturday night in both Pittsburgh and East Rutherford with both Friday and Saturday night concerts in Philadelphia and Foxborough.

August brought the final stadium concert at Solider Field in Chicago and The RED Tour hit America's west coast. Taylor had a 4 night stay at LA's Staples Center bringing her total of sold out shows at the venue to a record breaking 11 shows. LA means special guests and Taylor did not disappoint. Cher Lloyd, Sara Bareilles, Tegan & Sara, Ellie Goulding and Jennifer Lopez all joined Taylor on stage much to the delight of the 13,000 strong crowds each night.

Taylor wrapped up the North American leg of The RED Tour with a 3 night run at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. The poor girl had developed a cold but went ahead with her performances as not one to let the fans down. Nashville also called for special guests in the form of Luke Bryan, Rascal Flats and Hunter Hayes. Being the last concert on September 21st, Ed Sheeran pulled a prank on Taylor by dressing up as a clown to fit in with her final performance of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and surprising her on stage to which Taylor had to have a double take look to confirm what she was seeing. Ed was loving it clearly so did Taylor. It was the perfect ending to a 66 show tour.

Just a week later Taylor announced The RED Tour dates for London and when tickets went on sale the demand was huge with Taylor announcing a further 2 shows in London scheduled for a week after the first dates. A show in Germany was also added about a month later. Taylor now had some well deserved time off from touring.

After flying 30 hours from LA via London for the Winter Whites Gala with Prince Edward and Singapore, Taylor arrived in New Zealand just 20 hours before the next leg of The RED Tour started. Taylor performed a run of 3 arena shows before heading to Australia to become the first female solo artist in 20 years to headline a national stadium tour performing 4 massive stadium shows across the country over 2 weeks. Taylor spent her birthday on the road for the first time, turning 24 while in Melbourne, Australia.

February 2014 arrived and London was ready to turn Red when Taylor started the European leg of The RED Tour. Taylor performed 3 shows at Londons O2 Arena before heading to Berlin, Germany for a 1 off show and then returned to the O2 Arena for another 2 shows. All shows had special guests (in order of appearance) which were Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Danny O'Donoghue, Ed Sheeran (again in Berlin), Emeli Sande and Ellie Goulding.

About a week after Taylor finished her latest leg of The RED Tour, concert dates for Asia were announced with dates in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Ticket sales were fast with all concerts selling out within hours of going on sale. No further dates have been announced yet.
Edit (April 7th): Taylor announced her first ever show in China on March 26th 2014 for a performance date of May 30th in Shanghai. When tickets when on sale on April 2, the arena was sold out in under one minute, making it the fastest selling concert in Chinese history.

All 66 North American concerts had a surprise acoustic performance and videos of those performances and other videos from The RED Tour so far can be found at the links below:
Acoustic Performances
RED Moments
RED NZ/AUS
RED UK/Germany

One year of The RED Tour is over and now RED Asia approaches.

About Me

Hey Swifties,

Sam, 21, Massive Swiftie who was lucky enough to meet Taylor on her RED World Tour in Auckland, New Zealand on Dec 1st 2013.

I first heard Taylor in 2009 with Love Story, however I never acted on the amazing voice I had just heard. Then I started to get more into Taylor in 2012 when I remember my sister turning down a ticket to her Speak Now Tour in Auckland. Fast forward to August 2012 and I remember when We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together came out and my sister bugging my mum for an entire month after RED came out to get her to buy the album for us. RED sent me head over heals for Taylor and I have never looked  back since.

I went to all 3 Auckland RED Tour concerts and am so ready for this new album and tour as I want to see Taylor in America

You can find me on Twitter: @Gypsy_Ella
And on Taylor Connect via my Club Red Story here