How to Save Your Family's Height Chart
The short version
We turn photos of your doorframe into a life-size canvas print of the marks — their pencil lines, their handwriting, at the heights they were made — that you hang in the new house and keep measuring on. $79, shipping included.
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Moving Out? How to Save the Height Marks on Your Doorframe (Every Method, Compared)
Can't bear to leave the kids' height marks behind? Every way families save them — tracing, photos, taking the trim, a life-size print — and what each one gives you.
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Painting Over the Height Marks? Three Things to Do First
Once paint covers pencil, the marks are gone for good. Before the roller comes out, three quick things to do so your family's growth chart isn't lost with the old color.
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How to Photograph the Height Marks So Every Height Stays True
A nice photo of the doorframe isn't enough to keep the heights. How to photograph your growth chart with your phone so every mark keeps its real height, plus the two numbers to jot down.
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Thinking of Taking the Doorframe With the Height Marks? Read This First
Lots of families think about taking the trim when they move. What to weigh before anyone picks up a tool — the sale, the new owners, the patch it leaves — and gentler ways to bring the marks along.
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Starting a Doorframe Growth Chart? How to Make One That Lasts
Starting your family's growth chart? Where to put it, what to write with, and how to measure so the marks stay accurate and survive the next paint job and the next move.
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Your Questions About the Height Marks on the Doorframe, Answered
Moving, selling, painting or renovating with the kids' height marks on the doorframe? Friendly, straight answers, and how a life-size canvas print of the marks works.