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.
- plistig ( @plistig@feddit.de ) 16•8 months ago
Do spider webs count as decoration?
Right now, at this time of the year, yes.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
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.
- Staden_ スタデン ( @Staden_@pawb.social ) 4•8 months ago
Yes
- dafungusamongus ( @dafungusamongus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English12•8 months ago
Here’s a piece of metal work I cut using a fiber optic laser.
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•8 months ago
That looks so cool.
Do you work in something metal CAD related?- dafungusamongus ( @dafungusamongus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•8 months ago
Yes, I mainly operate and maintain this laser for a fabrication company.
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English12•8 months ago
Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 4•8 months ago
What are you doing with these old writing machine/PCs?
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English6•8 months 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:
- IWantToFuckSpez ( @IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ) 7•8 months ago
Plants
- Hamartiogonic ( @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ) 3•8 months 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.
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English6•8 months ago
Just the paint
- Blizzard ( @Blizzard@lemmy.zip ) English3•8 months ago
Ahh, classic!
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.
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English1•8 months ago
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
- Zane ( @Zane@aussie.zone ) 6•8 months ago
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.
- Zane ( @Zane@aussie.zone ) 2•8 months ago
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 6•8 months ago
That electric guitar you bought and don’t use.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English6•8 months ago
Maps, lots and lots of maps.
- Another Catgirl ( @anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•8 months ago
local fire regulations say no wall coverings allowed unless they’re non-flammable
- phorq ( @phorq@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 months ago
Are these regulations you hung on the wall flammable?
- guyrocket ( @guyrocket@kbin.social ) 4•8 months ago
Some of my prized posessions are watercolor landscape paintings my grandfather painted.
If real art is an option I would highly recommend it.
- selokichtli ( @selokichtli@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
I hang puzzles. They always wake some extra curiosity and are good conversation starters.
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@feddit.de ) English3•8 months ago
When people look at them do they get puzzled?
- selokichtli ( @selokichtli@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months 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.
- popemichael ( @popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•8 months ago
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 ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
based
I’m hoping that groovy term fades into the tubular before I have to understand what virtue it’s actually signaling.
- popemichael ( @popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•8 months ago
‘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
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months 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
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 months 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.
- atoro ( @atoro@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
Displates and 3D printed art for me.