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Do spider webs count as decoration?

Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.

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

Plants

That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.

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.

Maps, lots and lots of maps.

Just the paint

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Paintings made by my grandkids.

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

Displates and 3D printed art for me.

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

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...

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.