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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.

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[–] plistig@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do spider webs count as decoration?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, at this time of the year, yes.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every month is spooktober if you live in an actual haunted house

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

So, like mine, which is nearly 100 years old and has a sketchy past.

[–] davefischer 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you doing with these old writing machine/PCs?

[–] davefischer 6 points 1 year ago

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:

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[–] dafungusamongus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here’s a piece of metal work I cut using a fiber optic laser.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks so cool.
Do you work in something metal CAD related?

Yes, I mainly operate and maintain this laser for a fabrication company.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.

[–] Zane@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Books are a must for me but I was really looking for suggestions like the ones you gave on your second paragraph. Thank you.

[–] Zane@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Books!

Also books!

I hope impressionism is your bag.

Maps, lots and lots of maps.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh, classic!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

local fire regulations say no wall coverings allowed unless they're non-flammable

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Are these regulations you hung on the wall flammable?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Some of my prized posessions are watercolor landscape paintings my grandfather painted.

If real art is an option I would highly recommend it.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hang puzzles. They always wake some extra curiosity and are good conversation starters.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When people look at them do they get puzzled?

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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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[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 31415926535@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] 31415926535@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I got mine on Amazon, $15 I think. Tiny, lightweight, can even put into bag, travel with it, liven up bare wall hotels.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paintings made by my grandkids.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] atoro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Displates and 3D printed art for me.

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

based

I'm hoping that groovy term fades into the tubular before I have to understand what virtue it's actually signaling.

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 2 points 1 year ago

Some bookcases downstairs, a mirror and then a selection of displates (art printed on metal, basically flush to wall and no horrible picture frames)

Art is a mixture of abstract, negative animal landscapes and abstract landscapes + one LotR Moria door above the staircase...

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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 macramΓ© owl that I inherited, a couple of film posters and a bicycle.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Mechanical drawings of rockets or planes or computer components. Psychedelic UV tapestries. Pictures of cats. Soviet style space propaganda pictures.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check your local library to see if they have a large format photo printer, it's often cheaper than you'd pay elsewhere. Then, print a poster sized portrait of Alfonso Ribeiro to hang up.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The local library is lucky if there's enough money to pay the light and internet.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oof, sorry to hear that! 😭

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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