Personalised WiFi Print Designs: Which One Suits Your Room

There are twenty four WiFi print designs in our range and they all do the same job. Your network name, your password, and a line asking people to join. What changes is how the thing looks on the wall, which matters more than you would think, because a WiFi print ends up in the room everyone walks into.

We make each one to order here in Hessle and send a proof before anything gets printed. What follows is a way of getting twenty four options down to one, grouped by the sort of room they suit rather than listed alphabetically. If you would rather just scroll, the full WiFi prints collection is here.

Start with the room, not the design

Most people pick a WiFi print the way they pick a birthday card, by looking at all of them and choosing the prettiest. It works better in reverse. Decide where it is going first: a hallway shelf, the kitchen wall next to the kettle, a guest bedroom, the end of a bookcase. Then pick the design that will sit quietly with whatever is already on that wall.

Decide how far away people will be standing, too. A hallway shelf gets read from two feet away and can be A5. A kitchen wall that people squint at from the sink wants A4 or A3, or the password becomes a guessing game. There is a longer piece on choosing between A5, A4 and A3 if you want the measurements.

Soft and botanical, for a room you have not seen

Three designs in the range are green and leafy rather than graphic: Eucalyptus Leaves, Green Floral and Pastel. These are the safe picks when you are buying one as a gift and have no real idea what the room looks like, which is the usual situation.

Sage green and soft pink sit next to almost any wall colour, and none of the three shouts. If the kitchen or hallway already has a lot going on, start here.

Bold, for a plain wall that needs something

The opposite problem is a magnolia box room with nothing on the walls at all. Neon is the loudest thing we make in this range. Sunset is warmer, Animal Print is the one people either love on sight or skip past entirely, and Pink is the straightforward one.

One warning on the loud ones. They need space around them. Put Neon on a gallery wall between six other frames and it just adds to the noise.

Black and white, when the wall is already busy

If the room already has colour in it, take the colour out of the print. Family Home Heart in black and white is the one we reach for here. It reads as a piece of typography rather than a piece of decor, which is what you want in a kitchen with patterned tiles or a hallway with a bold runner.

The family-home designs

Four of them lean on the house-and-family idea rather than a pattern: House and Heart, Welcome Home, Welcome Home House and Family Home Heart in colour.

These work best as a housewarming present, because they read as a welcome first and a password second. If that is the occasion, the rest of the housewarming prints and gifts collection is worth a look alongside them.

The ones with a joke in them

Some people want the print to be funny. Four designs carry the line as part of the artwork:

• Pretty Fly For WiFi, the pun most people already know.

• But First WiFi, which suits a kitchen or a home office.

• What's The WiFi Code, for the household that answers that question four times a week.

• WiFi On The House, which also comes in a red version and a red and black version.

Worth thinking about how long the joke has to last. A card gets read once. This is on a wall for years.

Guest rooms, holiday lets and spare rooms

If the print is for somewhere guests sleep rather than somewhere the family lives, the tone shifts. Be Our Guest is written for exactly that. Lock and Key works in a holiday let where you want the thing to look deliberate rather than homely. Playful suits a family let where children are part of the booking.

For a let, go A4 framed rather than A5. Guests arriving in the dark with a suitcase should not have to hunt for it.

What we need from you

Whichever design you pick, the personalisation is the same two things. Send us the network name and the password, exactly as they are typed, because both are case sensitive and we copy them character for character. If you would like a line such as "Please join the Smith House WiFi", tell us the name you want in it.

That goes in the personalisation box on the product page, and we send a proof back before we print. Check the password on the proof rather than skimming it, because that is the whole point of the proof stage. There is more on how that works in our guide to personalising an order.

One thing to be straight about: personalised items cannot be returned because you changed your mind, which is why we would rather you took an extra day over the proof.

Sizes, frames and what they cost

Every design in the range carries the same options and the same prices, so choosing a design does not change what you pay:

• Email PDF, £7, to print yourself.

• A5 print only £10, or framed at £14 in black or white and £15 in grey. A5 does not come with a mount.

• A4 print only £13, framed from £18, or £20 with a mount.

• A3 print only £15, framed from £27, or £29 with a mount. Grey frames are a pound more at every size.

The frames are solid wood, made in the UK, in black, white or grey. The front is 1.2mm acrylic rather than glass, which is worth knowing if the print is going in a kitchen with a tiled floor or anywhere a child might pull it off a shelf. There is more detail on our frames.

If you are still torn

Pick the quieter one. It is the choice that stays easy to live with once the novelty of the design has worn off and the print is just the thing on the wall that tells people the password. If you want the case for giving a WiFi print at all, rather than which design to pick, that is in our piece on WiFi prints as a new-home gift.

Otherwise, the whole range is on the WiFi prints collection, and everything else that goes on a wall is in home decor. Any questions before you order, message us. It is Lee and Sam reading them.