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.
I have a lot of abstract paintings in my room. They’re not mine though. They’re a collection of my parents who have nowhere else to hang them.
I hang puzzles. They always wake some extra curiosity and are good conversation starters.
When people look at them do they get puzzled?
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LOL. I guess. They always ask how much time did we invest in it and where it comes from. People often wonder which one was harder to complete, etc.
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.
Large abstract stencils. They’re available at art stores, but if you can find them at a hardware store they’re super cheap. Something like this from Amazon . I didn’t use them, I just put them on the wall hanging. Eventually I also got LED bulbs to cast cool shadows.
Fruit of stupidity. The town once had two libraries, overflowing with really old books. From what I’ve heard I’d risk many would be more than a century old or even older.
Then this hotshot librarian came to direct the librarian. Being an “author” he expunged the library of anything he deemed unworthy to be read or occupying shelf space, with a rage boner, as the two library buildings were condensed into one, with less than one tenth of the available area for book storage and display.
What was once a treasure chest for readers became a poor excuse for a reading room for newspapers.
I once tried to suggest moving towards ebooks, considering almost every person carries a decent ereader in their pocket nowadays and it was almost like uttering heresy.
So…
It won’t happen here, as the library is funded by the city, but I have lived where one of the biggest libraries in the country sits and you could take a book for free and read it in three or five days (can’t recall the exact time) or choose to pay a few cents to request the book for a little longer, never exceeding two weeks.
That money was enough to get new works, replace overused copies, etc.
A library for profit already exists: we call it a book store.
Just the paint
Ahh, classic!
Haha I have a tote of art in frames that I want to put up somewhere but never satisfied with how to arrange it so it just sits in the tote, plus the blank walls makes it feel bigger haha
Flags of states that my family lives in, paintings my father did, bamboo cutting boards of the states we have family in, family photos, vases with grasses, trinkets passed down from family, movie posters, etc. Basically anything that has meaning to us.
Here’s a piece of metal work I cut using a fiber optic laser.That’s really neat!
That looks so cool.
Do you work in something metal CAD related?Yes, I mainly operate and maintain this laser for a fabrication company.
Displates and 3D printed art for me.
I have a poster from here with the text of one of my favourite books arranged as a picture. It’s quite the conversation piece. If books aren’t your thing, you could always go with the first million digits of Tau, the Streets of Portland, the Constitution of Dalaware or the Kama Sutra.
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:
I have 2 foil art pictures. Afaik it’s a toner print on cardstock and then a foil is baked on the paper and peeled leaving only the foil on the parts where the toner was earlier.
One is a moon in silver holographic and another is an entry ticket to “space” with a gold foil printPicture:
Ordered on Etsy. If requested I will try to find the page of the seller.
Why are you just ignoring whatever that text panel is next to it. We just what?
Excuse the mess
We just wanted to you to feel at home.Felt very fitting for my room.
