And what do you recommend to hang on walls, for decorative purposes, besides family photos?
Mine are blank and barren, an empty canvas for the maniacal decorator in me, after carefully negotiated with the family.
Do spider webs count as decoration?
Right now, at this time of the year, yes.
Every month is spooktober if you live in an actual haunted house
So, like mine, which is nearly 100 years old and has a sketchy past.
Yes
Here’s a piece of metal work I cut using a fiber optic laser.That looks so cool.
Do you work in something metal CAD related?Yes, I mainly operate and maintain this laser for a fabrication company.
That’s really neat!
All sorts of stuff. Books, trinkets, records, art. I like to hit up small regional galleries and local artists exhibits for original art, but I also have a lot of prints and posters as well.
Art gallery gift shops are a fantastic place for high quality prints and posters that don’t break the bank, and then you can spend as much or as little as you like on getting them mounted and on display.
Books are a must for me but I was really looking for suggestions like the ones you gave on your second paragraph. Thank you.
Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.
What are you doing with these old writing machine/PCs?
I collect old computers (mostly high-end 90s servers: Sun & SGI, but also some older things like that decwriter & tektronics graphics terminal) and I help run a computer museum, so I frequently have things on loan from the museum - either stuff I’m working on, or photographing.
I had this on loan from the museum a few years ago to get V7 Unix (circa 1979) running on it:
Plants
Once I found some nice maple leaves, so I put them in a cheap photo frame and hung them on the wall. It looked nice, do I expanded on the idea and started doing lots of these picture frames with dry leaves in them. The best one I have is an A4 paper completely covered in nettle leaves. They also form a fish scale pattern, which makes it look really cool.
Just the paint
And that is valid. I’ve seen buckets of paint with such long price tags it made me wonder if was the price for the entire pallet.
Ahh, classic!
Maps, lots and lots of maps.
Entry hallway has black light tapestries. Very large tapestry of tree and fairy lights over bed. All 3 tapestries, $40 on Amazon. 2 framed paintings of day of dead women, got for cheap in local latino hood. A small USB powered projectors covers walls, ceiling with animated aurora borealis. The first 100 digits of pi, written with colored markers.
Ooh, now I want a projector to cover my ceiling with the stars currently overhead (which I can’t see because light pollution and also there’s a ceiling in the way).
I got mine on Amazon, $15 I think. Tiny, lightweight, can even put into bag, travel with it, liven up bare wall hotels.
I have a signed photos of Patrick Stewart and William Shatner. Nothing else lol, the rest of my walls are essentially bare. But, I’ve never been one for wall decor (somewhat of a minimalist), and the few items that are up weren’t chosen by me.
It’s always a fun conversation when I’m initially dating someone as to why those are up. Unfortunately, getting people you’re dating to watch Star Trek is harder than you would think. 🤣
That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.
I’ve got oil paintings from my eccentric artist friend who sometimes disappears for a week then emerges with abstract art. Not on the walls yet but my apartment has no pipes which bothers me. So I bought a bunch of PVC and a couple random pipe features. I’m an adult, I get to nail my own damn pipes to the wall break up how sterile my place feels
I live in a relatively small 1br apartment, so I don’t have a huge amount of wall to decorate, but what I do have, I’ve decorated with a semi-random assortment of things I like.
In the living room I have a couple prints of famous paintings I like, Cafe Terrace at Night by Van Gogh and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. I got these in art gallery gift shops ages ago.
Above my turntable I have a couple framed album covers I like: ELO’s Out Of The Blue and Halestorm’s Remastered self-titled (the black and neon colourscheme of both covers look nice together IMO)
Above my desk I have my university degree framed.
In my bedroom I have a big ol’ Canadian flag hanging above my bed.
On the wall opposite the front door of my apartment I have a watercolour painting my younger brother did of the lake at our family’s cottage.
A few posters I bought from the campus poster sale at the start of the year. (Specifically, a woodblock print, a solar system map and a Cowboy Bebop poster.)
I have a huge window with a nice view (in a university owned apartment no less!) so I can afford to skimp on the other walls.
I hang puzzles. They always wake some extra curiosity and are good conversation starters.
When people look at them do they get puzzled?
Displates and 3D printed art for me.
