Any decorator types out there? I need advice...

I have a vintage restaurant menu from New Orleans that I want to somehow frame and add to the decor in my bedroom. It's a regular paper menu with several pages. How do you think it should be displayed?

The menu is cool. A fillet mignon is $3.00

having several pages. seems that you'd have to take it apart in order to frame it, and even then, you'd miss the stuff on the back.

I mean REALLY GOOD copies of the backs of pages so you can display all?

at Pottery Barn - you can set up the menu in there - throw in a nice fork or napkin and instant art.

http://ww1.potterybarn.com/cat/pip.cfm?src=shpcaccfrafrm%7Crshop%2Fshpcaccfrafrm%7Crshop%2Fshpcacc%7Crshop&pkey=caccfrafrm&gids=p4425

Things like this are always a tough call, but if it was my menu, I'd put it in a metal frame sandwiched between two pieces of glass. That way you could see the front of the menu and also the back just by taking it off the wall. Also, many (if not most) metal frames just screw together with corner brackets. They're easy to take apart and put back together, so you could change the section of menu displayed "out front" on occasion.

But my real advice to you is to find a frameshop and ask them. A small, locally owned frameshop would probably give you the most creative options, but if money is an issue, get an idea from a small frameshop and then hit a Michael's Arts and Crafts during one of its sales. If you can't afford a custom frame, get a sectional metal frame and glass (also available at most frame shops, including Michaels).

This is the kind of project I would have loved to have comethrough my frame shop. Wish I could see the menu--it sounds very cool! :hi:

*On edit, I want to note that the two panes of glass option is real only a good option with metal frames because of how the frames go together, but also because of the weight of two pieces of glass. You'd have to have a REALLY thick, sturdy wood frame to do this, and then it would be a pain in the arse to change the display.

If you copied all the pages, as suggested by someone else, above, it would be huge and very, very expensive if all in one frame. It could be kind of cool with many single frames, but again, potentially expensive and would take up a lot of wall space.

As you can see, the menu is really beautiful inside and out. I really like what it's gonna do for the room, which is an early 1900s New Orleans theme. Well, 1949 isn't exactly "early" but I thought it was a nice addition anyway.

and display it. Then photocopy or scan the other pages and reduce them and display under or around main page. I like the shadow box idea. Be nice if you could find utensils or something from the same restaurant.

I have some framed menus, but they are just one piece, rather than a series of pages: