What decorations are on your walls?
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.
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!
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.
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.
I hope impressionism is your bag.
That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.
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.
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
Ahh, classic!
Maps, lots and lots of maps.
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 print
Picture:
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.
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.
local fire regulations say no wall coverings allowed unless they're non-flammable
Are these regulations you hung on the wall flammable?
I hang puzzles. They always wake some extra curiosity and are good conversation starters.
When people look at them do they get puzzled?
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.
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.
My mom likes to do assorted crafts, so we have a few painted adornments, even a 3D painting of sorts she made using some specialized putty and acrylic paint. It looks real nice, I should upload a picture of it later.
You should!
Some of my prized posessions are watercolor landscape paintings my grandfather painted.
If real art is an option I would highly recommend it.
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. 🤣
Nothing because im renting and don't trust anything to not rip paint off the walls
If that happens, it just tells how much paint is on the wall and how cheap it is, which is a really bad sign.
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
Mechanical drawings of rockets or planes or computer components. Psychedelic UV tapestries. Pictures of cats. Soviet style space propaganda pictures.
Paintings make by my grandkids.
I'm much the same as @Zane@aussie.zone - lots of bookcases, selection of prints and originals from artists and galleries here and there. We also have a couple of line and wash sketches of my own and several paintings by my SO, a mounted deer skull, a green man sculpture and a couple of landscape photos of mine. Neither of us do family photos.
In the past, I have had: a large mirror that I turned into a clock, a banner from a Greenpeace group that I was involved with, a tapestry that I friend made for us, a macramé owl that I inherited, a couple of film posters and a bicycle.
Absolutely nothing. Except for a small shelf that's technically nailed to the wall but it's painted in the same white as the wall so I'm not sure it counts.
I have a wall where I hang masks bought from my trips on vacation. A few other walls have landscape paintings and posters.
I didn't realize until my mid 20s that having a house without pictures and wall hanging is weird. It was also when I learned that if you don't have enough lighting it makes a home feel like a mausoleum.
The answer as to what a person should put on their walls depends on how based a person is or how much they don't care about what others think.
If you want to get non-traditional with it, hang up movie posters, collages, video game posters, etc. Whatever you like and like to look at.
If you go traditional and normal, then art is a fantastic idea. Go to your local thrift store and find old art that they have. Local estate sales are also good.
Personally, I love to commission a painting or two from the artist themselves. Etsy and fiverr painters love to make custom art of whatever you want if you have the money. You're looking at spending anywhere from $10 to a few hundred depending on the size you want.
It's always fun having a painting of your pet remade in the style of Edvard Munch
based
I'm hoping that groovy term fades into the tubular before I have to understand what virtue it's actually signaling.
'Based' means that you are very proud of what you have done and what you are doing and that you don't care what anyone else thinks.
It's like if IDGAF (I don't give a fuck) was an adjective.
I used to not like to learn these 'new' terms myself, but this one is an objectively positive to the human language.
I don't see the point of denying the growth of a language in my lifetime just because I become older. I hated it when my parents did it, and they hated when their parents did it... so I'm breaking the cycle
So for me it depends on my room.
In the office/gaming room, the walls are entirely full of gaming related and other geeky posters. Some fantasy maps, a discworld map, such stuff. Posters of the Persona 5 palaces.
For the living room, one wall has a small area with cat pictures (including of my baby cat of 12 years who died 2 months ago <3), the main wall is slowly creeping full of empty board game expansion boxes where I put the stuff into the main box and then hang the expansion box up with poster strips to decorate the wall with the board game shelf.
For the bedroom, the main wall has the images from the two Sunstone calendars with the calendar parts cut off. The whole room is red/black, so they fit really well, plus the theme fits.
Ooh sunstone calendars seem like a really nice decoration
I’ve got a Critters, Hell Comes To Frogtown, and Samurai Cop poster up. Then a few foil cover comics from the 90s, including Spider-Man 2099 and Punisher 2099.
Overall I’m pretty happy with my life choices.
The 2099 series did have good cover graphics.
Displates and 3D printed art for me.
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.
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.
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.
Three walls with just a light paint, one wall with a color or patterns. I really like the Asanoha pattern (Japanese hemp leaf).
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.
Some impasto oil paintings I particularly like, clocks, mirrors, and a few reproduction painting prints here and there :-D
Mostly posters and flags in the geeky/gamer/nerd vein, which are taken down and rotated with others every couple years for shits n grins.
Lots of things. A Kramer poster, a backwards clock, a magic eye poster, a Larry Elmore print, a haunted house painting, a chime clock, a painting of Venice.
posters (miku), my trans flag, shelves with boxes, games, figures, an pkushies on them, and 7 old motherboards thay i plug my excess cables into
i like my room its so silly
Sword rack. It looks cool and can either have mall ninja crap or genuine weaponry depending on your preference
And it tells others so much valauable information about you
A poster which reads heisenberg because I am a breaking bad fanatic
I've got art from local artists mostly, some of it is commissioned like my Sasquatch smoking a joint. I also have a fuck load of plants on shelves and I have a tremendous affinity for accent walls.
A lot of mixed paintings. Mostly morbid ones. Many by Beksinski or Pieter Bruegel and some largely unknown artists like Füssli.
On walls should be something that inspires you everytime you walk by. Or makes you happy, or pondering. Whatever that might be.
I collect paintings and other things from estate sales.
Also macrame hangings.
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.
Books are my thing.
Find a skateboard deck that you like and hang that up as art.
My mom and sister have made many amazing paintings and sketches, so i have those on walls of every room
Mostly shelves, wardrobes and stuff. Some bike wheels.
Hats
Art that we've acquired during travels. And a huge map of my city. And mirrors.
Maps are a great form of cheap wall art, also estate sale auctions usually have alot of wall art for cheap.
Mostly either photos I took or photos of relatives taken by a photographer.
If you're of drinking age, I highly recommend trying a wine & design type thing. You get to see what you'll be attempting to paint when you sign up, so the colors and vibe can be vetted to see which one you'd want on your wall before spending the time and money. But you also get the awesome activity of having some drinks, painting a thing, and maybe meeting some cool people. If you have a partner, it's also an amazing date idea, or it's dope to bring a platonic friend to. And you don't even need to be good at painting because they teach you step by step what to do, and then help you fix it if you fuck it up horribly. My wife and I have a bunch of paintings up in our apartment (3M stuff, no nails) plus some big canvas prints from our wedding. There are also some small seasonal things we swap out. If you have a craft store near you, check out small decorative projects where you do something pretty simple like paint and glue little premade bits together. Here is an example of a basic thing like I'm talking about, but I'd pick something less "live laugh love" and more whatever your personality jives with. Don't be afraid to nerd out and do Star Wars stuff or whatever you're into. The space is yours, so your comfort and interests should be welcome in your home.
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
Yes
Only if you let me raise you my Router to your web