Fortunately, this past Valentines Day Sylvia tried to surprise me with a Threadless edition Blik surface graphic – Stone Jungle. I say tried because when I pick up a package in the mail room with Blik stickers covering the shipping tube, it’s a sure giveaway of what lies within. Thanks Syl, the wall art is definitely what the apartment was missing! It sure would have been funny if you had followed through with your plans to try and install it yourself before I woke up.

You can’t go wrong with temporary surface graphics

The beauty of vinyl wall graphics is that they are only as permanent as you want them to be. If you ever grow tiresome of looking at the same graphic, or it comes time to move, the graphic can be peeled off without leaving any type of residue or trace. Perfect for your leased apartment, townhouse, or dorm room.

Blik ships the surface graphics in a sturdy cardboard shipping tube with a sticker affixed to the outside reading "paint with stickers". Fitting tagline. Stone Jungle arrived as two large pieces on transfer paper – each half measuring 72" by 20".

Smooth and easy installation, if your wall is perfectly smooth

Judging by the included install tips and short videos found online, the installation should have been a breeze. It wasn’t. There were two reasons which contributed to a difficult install: 1) each graphic was 72" wide, and 2) the walls in the apartment were not perfectly smooth. As hard as we tried, getting the 72" surface graphic to transfer smoothly without one side falling off the wall proved to be a tricky process.

How to simplify the process? Syl recommended I cut the 72" graphic into much more manageable ~12" portions. Installation now involved a high degree of patience and determination that a chopstick wielding master attempting to capture flies would have.

An unconventional installation not documented by Blik but definitely makes the process easier for walls that are not smooth. Check out Blik for some great surface graphics. Some of my favorites are all of the Threadless specials, 8-BIT, and Bamboo.