Weed Posters for a Room: How to Hang and Arrange Strain Prints

People ask me how to hang these, usually after the poster shows up and they realize a flower that big needs a plan. Here is how we do it at our house, and what I would tell a friend who just bought a stack of prints and has one blank wall.

Start with one anchor

Pick the biggest piece first and build around it. For us that is a 36x24. The STRainbow poster is six strains in rainbow order on one sheet, so it reads from across the room, and it is the one that hangs in our living room. Put it over the couch or the bed, center it on the furniture under it, and put the middle of the print about at eye level. Everything else on the wall takes its cue from that one piece. If you want the rundown on the big composite prints, I wrote a whole post on the 36x24s.

STRainbow, 36x24, black frame.

Then a grid of 12x18 collectibles

The collectible posters are 12x18, with the strain name printed under the flower and the Canna Queens Project mark. They are all the same size on purpose. Same size means same frame, and same frame means a grid lines up without any math. Two across and two down makes a block that holds its own next to a 36x24. Three in a row works over a dresser or a long low shelf. Keep the gap between frames the same all the way around, about two inches, and keep the top edges level. Pick the set by strain name: the purple ones, or one for every queen if you have the wall for it. There are 26 strains to choose from, and if you buy three the discount shows up at checkout on its own.

A 12x18 is a standard size, so a frame from any big box store fits it. Ours are in black frames, because black makes every background color in the paintings look like it belongs with the others. White is the pick if the wall is dark.

18x24 for the spot that needs one piece

An 18x24 from the poster prints collection is the in-between size. One of these fills the wall at the end of a hallway or the space over a nightstand. Pick black, red oak or white on the product page and it arrives in the frame, so it hangs the minute the box is open. Sour Diesel on its navy background and Purple Haze in purple and green are the two I would start with. Framed or unframed is its own question, and I answered it in this post. The framed prints collection shows every strain in every frame color.

Purple Haze, 18x24, black frame.

8x10 sets for shelves

Not every print needs a nail. The Rainbow Set of six 8x10 prints is the STRainbow split into six separate prints: Gorilla Zkittlez, Wedding Glue, Super Lemon Haze, Girl Scout Cookie, Berry Diesel and Purple Haze. Lean them on a bookshelf, a mantel or the top of a dresser, in rainbow order, and you have the big poster broken into pieces you can move around. Any 8x10 frame fits them. I like them on a shelf because you can swap the order when you get bored, and nobody has to patch a hole.

The Rainbow Set, six 8x10 prints, one strain per color.

How to actually get it on the wall

A few things I learned the hard way. Hang the big one first. Then lay the small ones out on the floor in front of the wall before you put a single nail in, and take a photo of the layout so you can copy it. Measure up from the floor, not down from the ceiling. Use two hooks on anything 36x24 so it does not tilt every time a door closes. And keep prints out of direct sun. The matte paper is thick, 10.3 mil, but the sun wins over time.

STRainbow, 36x24, held up for scale.

Before you order

Three checks. Measure the wall and the furniture under it, because a 36x24 wants a couch or a bed under it and an 18x24 is happier on its own. Decide on frames before you order, because the framed option arrives ready to hang and the unframed one needs a trip to the store. And give it time. Everything is printed when you order it. Production takes 3 to 7 days and US delivery is another 3 to 7 business days, so give it about two weeks. If you are cutting it close, email us at cannaqueensproject@gmail.com and we will tell you straight.

💚 ☁️ 🌱Kristy