PHOTOWALL: REVIEW

In my previous post, I discussed a bit about Photowall as a sustainable business model for wall decor. So finally, we’re going to dissect their claim! By the way, There is going to be discount code at the end of the post, so keep reading!

So, Could their product to be incorporated into your lifestyle? How does their business going to impact the environment?

 

            When I ordered wallpaper from Photowall, I am amazed at how extensive their collection is. They have many options for wall decor, such as wallpaper, mural, and canvas. Aside from the abundance of motif and pictures available, you can custom your canvas design, which is adorable. But, if you’re like me, I think the choice presented by Photowall is very adequate.

            I put my choice on blossom motif by Photowall (you can find it here).  As you can see, the color scheme is very similar and in excellent shape. It really looks like an oil painting. When I pitched a teaser on my Instagram, my friends agree that it looks very cute. Moreover, The wallpaper is also nonreflective to sunlight, so they look comely even in very bright lighting. It is a suitable background for any photoshoot.

I was planning to test their fire rated but I am afraid that I would rather burn my house instead. The wallpaper I choose was in premium quality, so they’re also scrape resistant. I also have tested it with my nails. In compared to other products I know, indeed, it is superior. 

If you buy wallpaper, the paste is included. I find it is pretty easy to hang. First, the wallpaper is already cut in 45-cm width and has a numbering system. This simplifies the cutting process and you can put it in sequence easier than putting puzzles.

 Second, due to its compact cut, you can hang it alone without many obstacles. Lastly, the hanging process is as easy as hanging “wanted” poster. You just need to apply the paste directly on the wall, then put the wallpaper on top of it. Unfortunately, you must ignore the instruction. I recommend using hot water is better than lukewarm water to make the paste or it will agglomerate. You should also let it sit more than 10 minutes to settle. But, most importantly, I must say that I appreciate that it’s not easily disheveled and can be smoothened easily. It makes the picture can be seen clearly when hung, without any bump even in not-so-smooth wall surface.

           Do you know that Photowall is collaborating with Vi Agroforesty  to plant 5000 trees every year in the area surrounding lake Victoria in East Africa? Yep. Aside from selling wall decor, Photowall is one of that business which has natural awareness and support sustainability. 

It also never stock any wall decor (maybe only the blank paper and ink) so you can be assured that there will be nothing goes to waste. The packaging is also very considerable as it’s packaged inside paper box, even including the paste. I see that the business is doing everything under their reach to create a more sustainable business. I believe it is a reasonable decision to promote business like Photowall.

               Ordering stuff from Photowall is very easy. The delivery is very fast! Even though they don’t stock, they print very fast. Immediately after the order is placed, you know that it gets to printing. I am shocked on how quick it was. I ordered at 16 May. The order came from Sweden (to Indonesia-That’s 10,396 km!) on Wednesday! Here is some tutorial to order.

1. choose the wallpaper

2. Choose the dimension

3. If the dimension is less than the width/length, you should choose which part of the picture to print

4. Choose your quality

5. Now proceed to the cart

From my review, you can see that Photowall has lighten up my room more. It provides more blessing to the beholders!

As promised, here is  an exclusive discount offer of 25% on Photowall complete selection which is valid until 6th July of 2020: jessillesilv25

So just proceed with it to Photowall and happy shopping!

Can Beautiful Things Be Sustainable?

We look onto forest and we feel grateful for what we see. Outdoor has been a longstanding source of inspiration for human, and now in quarantine, we’re robbed of it. Simone Beauvoir wrote in Second Sex, that nature has special position relative to woman. She wrote, ardently:

“Life is not only immanence and repetition: it is also a dazzling face of light; in flowering meadows, it is revealed as Beauty..... ; she finds it intoxicating to be alone, sovereign on the hillside; she is no longer spouse, mother, housewife, but a human being; she contemplates the passive world: and she recalls that she is a whole consciousness, an irreducible freedom. In front of the mystery of water and the mountain summit’s thrust, male supremacy is abolished; walking through the heather, dipping her hand in the river, she lives not for others but for herself.” 

We appreciate beauty and crave for it.

In our life, we adorned our living space with not only essential things but also a touch of beauty. Starting from our own home, our desk, our garden, our dress, and our face. We appreciate it so much that it become an option of preference for us. Now, in the age of industrial revolutions, our options expand numerously because the unprecendented accumulation of wealth. The choice of beauty becomes abundant, and somehow exploitative.

Photowall makes top-quality wall décor that gives rooms abrand new look and feel. All of our motifs are handpicked and printed to order.Choose from thousands of motifs from our entire range or create and orderwallpaper and prints with your own designs.

To enjoy our lavish lifestyle we have now but also minding the environment is not easy way to do. Fortunately, there are a lot of companies who are trying their best to adjust their business model and being sustainable.

Photowall is one of the most unique company out there. First of all, because what they’re selling is home decor, such as wallpaper and poster. Yet, their approach to balance the beauty of your personal space and environment is astonishing. In upcoming collaboration, I will be reviewing their product in accordance to their environmental policy.

• Their unique supply chain commitment: All production is to order, which means we only produce the quantity of products required, none are held in stock or discarded un-necessarily.
•  Their sustainable canvas material (100% cotton), adhesive (biodegradability), and wrapping. So look forward for it

Why this kind of thing important?

It is because that is the reality of our life. We love beautiful things as well as we like to be compassionate to the world God’s given to us. In another sector, we might as well rethink our choices, such as in beauty industry and our marketplace. In beauty industry, many products are arranged  and advertised in such a way, with each own benefit, which if are clustered as routine and religiously followed, will ‘grace’ women with beauty she desired.

However, it is utterly important for us, as consumer who interacts daily with this choice of purchase to practice “sustainable purchasing”. The problem with beauty industry is how it aims for profit so much that they’re dumping a lot of product, with no essential benefit to skin and create a lot of waste by manufacturing both the ingredients and the packaging. The single usage type beauty treatment such as sheet mask is one controversial products, there currently packaged in less sustainable way. What is more regrettable is there are a lot of consumers who are not “use up” beauty product and left it into expiration date because they are buying more than their skin needs.

Let’s be real, no one has skin with facial surface area, more than 1 m²  so why put a gigantic volume of products on it?

However still, we still like to use those products. Even more as creature who admires beauty, human has created a lot of art on the surface on earth and onto itself with beauty product and make up. The boom of beauty industry trend makes personal beauty a more affordable and optional thing that reach more people than in the past.

The beauty does not only stop on ourselves, but stuff around us. Several years ago, I went on a trip to promote rain forest sustainability with AEON. This Japanese brand malls have also been working on making their supply chain become more sustainable and also incorporate nature in the architecture of their mall. If you come to visit Indonesia, you can find that this company has open space type architecture.

Definitely, to obtain living as sustainable as possible needs a lot of commitment. After all, we need to be reprimanded so that we’re not indulging ourselves so much in greed, that cause damaging effect for life around us, at present and in the future. Beauty can be more simple and modest. There are a long ways to go to make sustainability as common lifestyle, but it doesn’t mean we need to let go of beauty.