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.

      • @davefischer@beehaw.org
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        61 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:

        Image

    • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      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.

  • @Zane@aussie.zone
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    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.

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      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@possumpat.io
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        11 year 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

  • @TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world
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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. 🤣

  • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

  • Another Catgirl
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    local fire regulations say no wall coverings allowed unless they’re non-flammable

  • Carlos Solís
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    41 year ago

    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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      If that happens, it just tells how much paint is on the wall and how cheap it is, which is a really bad sign.

  • Remy Rose
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    41 year ago

    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.

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

      • Remy Rose
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        21 year ago

        Oof, sorry to hear that! 😭

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          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…

          • Remy Rose
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            I work in a library, and I’m sad to say this sort of thing has been going around for a while… Our board (a bunch of ghoulish rich retired business men) wants us to call people “customers” instead of “patrons”, and is looking for ways to charge them money.

            • qyronOP
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              It won’t happen here, as the library is funded by the city, but I have lived where one of the biggest libraries in the country sits and you could take a book for free and read it in three or five days (can’t recall the exact time) or choose to pay a few cents to request the book for a little longer, never exceeding two weeks.

              That money was enough to get new works, replace overused copies, etc.

              A library for profit already exists: we call it a book store.