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.
Only if you let me raise you my Router to your web
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.
That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.
Maps, lots and lots of maps.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Displates and 3D printed art for me.
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.
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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. 🤣
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 have a wall where I hang masks bought from my trips on vacation. A few other walls have landscape paintings and posters.
