The M Monogram

I received a few questions about the M monogram on our photo wall. I'm a big believer in giving credit where credit is due and this art was inspired 100% by the P monogram in John and Sherry's living room at This Young House. I just wanted a more personal touch since this was our family photo wall. No original ideas here - just a little deviation from the art they created for their house to make it more personal to us.


I wanted the M in our monogram to represent our name - so I headed straight to the McKevitts Village Hotel website and used their description of the rooms to make our art. My goal was for this to look like a snapshot of a magazine article - rather than a paragraph printed out, so I arranged the text accordingly.


I tried to arrange the type so that the charm I imagine for this little hotel was captured in 8 lines of abbreviated text - our name, the town the McKevitts hail from, and en suite bedrooms just paint a quaint picture for me. A little McKevitt family history in the heart of our living room photo wall.

This was an easy project - a Microsoft Word document converted to a JPEG, about 7 minutes of my time and 3 wasted sheets of paper until I figured out how it should look.