Snapfish estimated a delivery time of about 11 days if you didn’t want to pay extra for expedited handling. Mixtiles delivered our order in roughly a week. The CanvasDiscount tiles arrived bubble-wrapped in a plastic envelope. Snapfish packed their tiles effectively with bubble wrap in a box. Mixtiles had the most protective packaging, arriving in a perfectly-sized box with layered trays to prevent corner-mushing in transit. Maybe a nail through the pre-drilled hole on the wall-side disk would solve that problem, but then that’s a hole in the wall… While it’s a little unfair to compare the two because of the different wall surfaces they were applied to, we’re going to do it anyway. Unfortunately Cass’s son’s bumpy painted dry wall does not mix well with the disks – they keep falling down. Stick one disk to the wall, the other to the tile, and adjust as needed. (He did pull one off and stick it back on – so far so good.) In contrast, each Snapfish tile comes with two self-adhesive magnetic disks to use for adjustable hanging. On Tina’s son’s painted cement block dorm room walls, they stay up great. Mixtiles have an adhesive strip pre-installed along the top edge – just peel off the protective plastic and press to the wall. Our first order from CanvasDiscount didn’t arrive with any adhesives at all, so they got disqualified for this category. In our opinion, the darker sides of the Mixtiles and Snapfish pieces look more finished than those of CanvasDiscount. CanvasDiscount uses a thinner white foam board with light gray edges. Snapfish prints on a thin black beveled board. Mixtiles mounts their photos on inch-thick dark grey foam board. It looks fine on the wall, and is probably the reason the tiles can be repeatedly repositioned. Print resolution was not noticeably different between the three companies.Īll three products were mounted on foam board, which is super light weight and feels a bit chintzy. ![]() A cheaper alternative? Sure, let’s try it! (Image? Let’s just say it was part of a joke series… Guess you had to be there!) Evaluation Criteria… (Image courtesy of Cass’s youngest son, gifted to her oldest son.)Īfter Tina placed the Mixtiles order, ads for CanvasDiscountstarted popping up, featuring a competing product called “MixPix”. Snapfish has traditionally been our go-to website for photo gifts, so they got the second slot out of sheer brand loyalty. (Image courtesy of Tina’s Galapagos Getaway: a zoom-in on a land iguana’s spiked head!) I’m guessing you’ve seen their ads, too – with happy people sticking and resticking the same tiles on a wall until they get the look they want. Our price analysis is therefore based on a hypothetical order of nine tiles. Odd numbers are aesthetically pleasing, and nine seems like a good starting point for an impactful arrangement. (No, we don’t get any kickbacks!) If you’ve ever been in the market for some inexpensive wall art, and wondered how different manufacturers measure up, read on for our review! For the purpose of our informal comparison, we ordered 8”x8” unframed tiles with adhesive hanging mechanisms from all three companies. With those in mind, we tried out three different photo tile companies to see which we liked the best. Key selling points for us were ease of hanging and the minimization of wall damage. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess all the advertising worked – we were curious! So for Christmas, we decided to give our kids some personalized photo art for their dorm rooms and apartments. Cass and I have been bombarded with ads for Mixtiles for a while now on our various feeds.
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