Frequently Asked Questions

A GPS Pillow is a custom-printed pillow featuring the geographic coordinates of a place that matters to you — your first home, where you got married, where you met your best friend, a family cabin, or any spot your heart holds. You type in an address or place name, we convert it to latitude and longitude, and those coordinates become the centerpiece of a beautiful coordinate-style print on a high-quality pillow.

Our pillows are square and available in three versatile sizes:

18″ × 18″ — our classic accent size, beautifully proportioned for chairs, benches, beds, and smaller sofas.

20″ × 20″ — a fuller, more generous size that adds comfortable scale to sofas, sectionals, and layered pillow arrangements.

26″ × 26″ — our statement size, designed to make a striking centerpiece on a deep sofa, daybed, or generously sized bed.

Our 18″ and 20″ indoor and outdoor pillows may be ordered as a complete pillow with an insert or as a cover only. Both 26″ indoor and outdoor pillows are offered as covers only; pair one with a standard 28″–30″ insert for a beautifully full, designer look. Choose the scale that best suits your room and the impression you want to make.

Our indoor pillows come in your choice of three premium fabrics — Cotton Twill (crisp, classic canvas weave), Faux Suede (soft brushed hand), or Faux Linen (relaxed natural texture). The 18″ and 20″ sizes are available as a complete pillow with a soft polyfill insert or as a cover only; the 26″ indoor pillow is cover-only. Beautiful for sofas, beds, reading chairs, and shelves.

Our outdoor pillows use one purpose-built all-weather fabric: a spun-poly cover treated for UV, water, fade, and mildew resistance. The 18″ and 20″ sizes are available with a 100% polyester insert or as a cover only; the 26″ outdoor pillow is cover-only. Made for patios, porches, boats, lake houses, and outdoor furniture.

Indoor or outdoor, your chosen artwork is printed beautifully on both sides.

You choose. Our 18″ and 20″ indoor and outdoor pillows may be ordered as a complete pillow with the insert included, ready to display as soon as it arrives, or as a cover only if you already have a favorite insert at home. The cover-only option is also easier to store, refresh seasonally, and give as a gift.

Our 26″ × 26″ indoor and outdoor statement pillows are offered as covers only. Shipping a large insert adds considerable bulk, so this keeps the package more manageable and helps us continue offering free U.S. shipping. Add a standard 28″–30″ insert for the plush, generously filled look shown by interior designers.

We offer sixteen colorways: Natural Canvas, Classic Navy, Garden Evergreen, Lake Blue, Pool Blue, Coral Rose, Marigold, Berry Rose, Soft Sage, Soft Charcoal, Butter Yellow, Dove Gray, Lavender, Sage Mist, Sandbar, and Dusty Blush. Each colorway pairs a carefully chosen background with coordinating ink — designed to complement the coordinate-style typography and look beautiful in your home.

To keep the print and fabric looking their best, we recommend spot cleaning with a soft cloth and a little mild detergent, or dry cleaning. Please avoid machine washing indoor pillows. Outdoor pillows use an all-weather fabric treated for UV, water & mildew resistance, and can also be gently machine washed and air-dried.

When you type an address or place name into our designer, we look it up using OpenStreetMap — a free, open-source mapping service used by millions of apps worldwide. The latitude and longitude are converted into degree-minute format (like 38° 33′ N · 121° 28′ W) and placed into your design automatically. No Google account, no API key, no charge.

OpenStreetMap has excellent coverage of addresses, cities, landmarks, parks, and neighborhoods across the United States and worldwide. It is the same map data behind Wikipedia, Apple Maps (in part), and many other well-known services.

No. The coordinates field in our designer converts what you type into latitude and longitude — those coordinates are what appears on the pillow, not the address itself.

That coordinates field works best with real, locatable addresses or well-known landmarks (like "Empire State Building" or "Madison Square Garden"). It cannot look up private nicknames like "Grandma's Farm" — those don't exist on a map.

But don't worry: once your coordinates are set, you can type "Grandma's Farm" or any personal name you like into the Location Line or Memory Line text fields — those are free-form fields where you write exactly what you want printed on the pillow.

No street address needed. You can type any recognizable location into the coordinates field — a city name, a park, a beach, a neighborhood, a well-known landmark. As long as it appears on a public map, we can find its coordinates.

For a truly private location (like a family farm with no public listing), the best approach is to find the nearest named road, town, or intersection on Google Maps first, then copy that address into our designer. The coordinates will be very close — usually within a few feet.

Anything that matters to you. There is no rule about what your words must say — they can be tender, funny, reverent, romantic, nostalgic, wonderfully specific, or meaningful only to the people receiving the pillow. The only limits are the character counts that keep your finished design balanced and beautifully readable. Spaces and punctuation count as characters, and every field is optional.

Primary Pillow Text — up to 20 printed characters
This is the large headline: a name, house nickname, family saying, declaration, or private joke. Try WHERE LOVE LANDED, THE PORCH SAID YES, or NANA RAN THIS PLACE. Want the headline on two lines? Type a / where you want the line to break; the slash is an instruction and is not printed or counted among the 20 printed characters.

Location Line — up to 30 characters
This can be a traditional city and state, but it does not have to be. Use a venue, neighborhood, room, landmark, family place, or whatever makes the story unmistakably yours. Examples include BISBEE, ARIZONA, THE TINY KITCHEN, UPSTAIRS, and FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA.

Optional Memory Line — up to 22 characters
Think of this as the finishing whisper: a date, dedication, punch line, promise, or tiny piece of the story. Try LOVE HAD FOUR PAWS, BEST DECISION EVER, or BRUNCH IS SERVED.

Your coordinates are handled separately, so they do not use any of these character allowances. Use all three text fields, only one, or none at all. Within the limits above, the sentiment is entirely yours — if it belongs to your story, it belongs on your pillow.

Shipping is free on every order — to all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. No minimum order, no code needed.

Your pillow is made fresh for your order. Production takes 3–5 business days, and shipping transit takes an additional 3–7 business days for most contiguous U.S. addresses. Total estimated time from order to doorstep: 7–12 business days.

Yes! We ship to all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and shipping is always free. Orders to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico ship free too — they simply take a little longer to arrive. We do not currently ship to other U.S. territories, APO/FPO military addresses, or internationally.

Because every pillow is made to order with your unique design, we cannot accept returns for buyer's remorse. However, if your pillow arrives damaged, defective, or with a printing error on our part, we will reprint or refund it — no questions asked. See our full returns policy for details.