What's on your walls?

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by SebC

I thought Ikea frames were weird metric sizes?

I've been criticized for my bare walls before, so now I have a couple abstract things my brother did for me and I've been meaning to put up photos.

Haven't found a good frame collection that comes in all the sizes I want (particularly 3:2 and 4:3 ratio so I don't have to crop width) though so I haven't done it yet.

I print my photos on 8-1/2" x 11" borderless, then place them into a 30x40 Ribba frame from Ikea, which is matted down to 8-1/4" x 10-3/4". I lose 1/8" around the edges of the photo. It's their only frame that works for that.

[Redliner]

This guy does some of the coolest stuff I have ever seen:

http://grahamtwomey.com

If you're looking for something interesting to put on your walls, look no further.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I love my maps. My walls are adorned by a World map, Canada map, USA map, Europe map, Rome map, Calgary map, a star map, Alberta/BC map, MD Rockeyview map, and a smaller world map that has landmarks drawn on the cities, such as their unique buildings. Calgary has the Calgary Tower and the Saddledome. Edmonton has nothing.
Some people think I'm a raging geek because of this, but I don't care. I once dumped a chick because she made fun of my maps. Her apartment had the aforementioned painting of a chair.

That is quite impressive I agree. But for Christmas this year I got a world map shower curtain which I think officially makes me the map guy and it gives me something to do while sitting on the can. A little too far.....maybe, but it beats some corny design in my bathroom. Anyway, I'll stop since this isn't a map thread.

[BuzzardsWife]

someone said they have no budget at all..u can find good things for walls at goodwill and try out value village..u have to go a few times..and go to different locations..another good thing is to go to garage sales..you can also use different things for walls..like rugs..cool bowls..(i found a very cool stainless steel bowl at ikea for forty bucks and it looks great on the wall)..hang things that you love or are sentimental to you..or make a shadow box with your cub cars or things from your childhood..another thing you can do is get old wallpaper books and find some nice pages and put them in a five dollar frame from ikea..you can make a cool picutre..buy cheap canvas's at a dollar store..dip rim of glasses or bowls in paint colors u like and place them on the canvas..nice plates on the kitchen walls with 1.00 plate hangers look fab too..if u like mirrors..u can put a whole collection of differnt sized small mirrors on one wall..if they are all the same color frames..that looks really good..i have a billion ideas

[mykalberta]

Not sure of decor, I have a Peter Lik photograph poster (black framed, glass front) that is about 2 feet high by 5 feet wide (dont ask me how much I paid for it ). I also have Godfather, Braveheart, Gladiator, and Scarface posters that are black framed with glass front that I bought from Costco a few years ago. I currently live alone as well.

[COGENT]

I love silk screened concert posters so I have a few of them framed in place. What I really like about them is that are typically the same size so it really makes the place look clean and organized. I am currently on the search for another one... maybe vintage.

Other than that I have some my photography and art I have done over the years.

[Coach]

superhero and flames posters




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[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by SebC

I thought Ikea frames were weird metric sizes?

I've been criticized for my bare walls before, so now I have a couple abstract things my brother did for me and I've been meaning to put up photos.

Haven't found a good frame collection that comes in all the sizes I want (particularly 3:2 and 4:3 ratio so I don't have to crop width) though so I haven't done it yet.

You can get 3:2 frames at photo stores. My photos are all in that ratio and I usually print 8x12 and buy the frames at Japan Camera for about $25. I've seen a couple other photo shops as well that stock 3:2 frames.

[Itse]

I've got this...
It's called "Back Catalogue" and it's a collection of Pink Floyd covers so it's totally cool and not at all a bunch of naked chicks by a pool. Well, it is, but very unoffensive, doesn't bother even my older relatives or anything.

Old LP covers make for some pretty cool poster-thingies too, and you can sometimes get them for dirt cheap, especially if the records are a little scratchy, which obviously doesn't matter if you're just going to use the covers.

I also have a painting of two zebras I got from some friends who bought it from a market in Nairobi (or someplace in Africa anyway ), and a traditional-style wall-cloth I got from another friend who visited Samoa. (Actually the first white Samoan tribal chief, but that's a completely other story.)

Then there's a North Korean propaganda-poster (from a friend who was there, obviously), a big retro-poster of Lenin which I think I should take down at least until my kid is big enough to understand irony.

Oh and a Tom of Finland poster that promotes safe sex. And some christian icon paintings. And a "Hard Times for Hamsters" calendar we got for christmas. Then there's a Tool poster ("10,000 Days", not mine, I don't like it), a Joy Division poster ("Closer"), a David Bowie poster ("1st outside" I think, again not mine), a wall-cloth from Turkey, a face-mask kind of thing from Africa. A bunch of watercolor paintings my kid made, a Rembrandt postcard and some birds my kid wanted...

I think that's about it. Then of course there's a whole bunch of bookshelves, they cover a lot.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

someone said they have no budget at all..u can find good things for walls at goodwill and try out value village..u have to go a few times..and go to different locations..another good thing is to go to garage sales..you can also use different things for walls..like rugs..cool bowls..(i found a very cool stainless steel bowl at ikea for forty bucks and it looks great on the wall)..hang things that you love or are sentimental to you..or make a shadow box with your cub cars or things from your childhood..another thing you can do is get old wallpaper books and find some nice pages and put them in a five dollar frame from ikea..you can make a cool picutre..buy cheap canvas's at a dollar store..dip rim of glasses or bowls in paint colors u like and place them on the canvas..nice plates on the kitchen walls with 1.00 plate hangers look fab too..if u like mirrors..u can put a whole collection of differnt sized small mirrors on one wall..if they are all the same color frames..that looks really good..i have a billion ideas

This post makes my brain hurt. Mix in a sentence structure or two.

[Saint Troy]

Lots of these http://www.siddickens.com/en/tiles_active.php wifey likes'em.

In my TV room, framed Iggy jersey, movie posters, and Decemberists concert posters, cause they're cool. Looking to get a signed Brees jersey to go up beside Iggy.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

You can get 3:2 frames at photo stores. My photos are all in that ratio and I usually print 8x12 and buy the frames at Japan Camera for about $25. I've seen a couple other photo shops as well that stock 3:2 frames.

Yeah, I think I will print mostly 8x12 from now on, but I've got some older shots that I'd like to put up as well that are 3072x2304 (so 4:3 and maximum 7.5x10 for 300 DPI), and I want to be able to get frames that match.

[evilcougar]

Ikea is pretty good for random stuff big and small. And they are decently priced. I've also seen some good stuff at Walmart etc..as other people have mentioned.

Something cool i've seen is my cousin was in Europe last year and she printed a few of the pictures that she took in black and white and just bought frames for them. They're really awesome and really compliment the furniture in her house.
I'm far to lazy to do that myself, so, i just like to buy stuff usually at Ikea of places i've been. So, i have a NYC picture that i bought while i was there the first time, it's a pencil drawing of the island of manhattan. I had to get it mounted though. That was pretty expensive.

But, I also have those pics that oilers_fan was talking about of NYC, except mine is of Paris. And of course there's the random pics of friends and family. But of course only the ones that people actually give me prints of.
I do like to stick with places i've been though, makes more of an interesting walk down memory lane i guess.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by SebC

Yeah, I think I will print mostly 8x12 from now on, but I've got some older shots that I'd like to put up as well that are 3072x2304 (so 4:3 and maximum 7.5x10 for 300 DPI), and I want to be able to get frames that match.

I've seen 4x6 and 6x9 there as well.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

I've seen 4x6 and 6x9 there as well.

Those are both 3:2.

Might have to go check them out though, since their website is awful.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by SebC

Those are both 3:2.

Might have to go check them out though, since their website is awful.

Oops sorry, misread your post. Thought for sure it said 3:2....

[SebC]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Oops sorry, misread your post. Thought for sure it said 3:2....

It did, but it also said 4:3.

I'm looking for 4:3 and 3:2 in the same style. Something like 6x8 and 8x12. 4x6 is a bit small, but can't go much bigger than 6x8 for 4:3 before I have to start blowing stuff up in Photoshop.

[BuzzardsWife]

Originally Posted by rubecube

This post makes my brain hurt. Mix in a sentence structure or two.

i dont do sentence structure..so there

[4X4]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

i dont do sentence structure..so there

You used to!