# Kids' bedroom art **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525 "2013-07-15T02:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/41 "2013-07-17T19:44:29Z")
> **[earthrise-mural - Murals Your Way](https://www.muralsyourway.com/earthrise-mural/)** > > Take your walls from boring to bold with custom printed wall murals and wallpaper. Choose from stunning photos, bold patterns or beautiful artwork. Print to fit any size wall. Satisfaction guaranteed. FREE US shipping. Do it, do it! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/42 "2013-07-17T20:10:15Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [http://www.muralsyourway.com/earthrise-mural/](http://www.muralsyourway.com/earthrise-mural/) > > Do it, do it! That is awesome. Unfortunately I wasn’t joking when I said I had no wall, either. The walls in my house either have doors/windows right smack in the middle of them, or they’re at weird mural-unfriendly angles, or they have wood paneling. I think there might be one room in the basement where it would work, but it’d be in the basement, in a storage room. Not really the high-traffic area I imagine. My office would be great, but it has wood paneling. Maybe I should just buy a big print and hang it up. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/43 "2013-07-17T20:12:04Z")
I’m having a lot of fun looking at that murals site myself. Maybe I ought to redecorate the kids’ rooms. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/44 "2013-07-17T20:17:50Z")
I had a macrame lion head [like this](http://www.inforum.com/media/full/jpg/2011/12/21/1222-v-lion.jpg) that hung on the wall over my bed. And used to shed itchy jute crap onto me. I was too young to think “I can always ask to be rid of this thing” since, in my child’s brain, I thought it was just part of “my room” so I just took it for years. There was some watercolor farm type scene hanging over my dresser. It was one of these things where the bottom half is supposed to be water so you get reflections of the tree tops, etc. Except it wasn’t especially well done and the trees were conifers so the end result is that it looked like a farm with a cave or something under it with stalactites hanging down. Sort of creepy. Finally, I had this smallish wall art that my grandfather did from some kit. It was gold beads on a black velvet backing in a sort of shadowbox. The image was a sandpiper on the beach. That one was kitschy and sort of laughable when you see it now (I kept it; not displayed) but at least it didn’t shed crap on me or make me feel unease when I looked at it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/45 "2013-07-17T20:28:58Z")
Like the song says, I had a “Star Wars poster on my bedroom door”. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/46 "2013-07-17T21:32:58Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > We had a Margaret Keane print, or maybe it was just a knockoff of the style, because I can’t find a link to it. It was similar in mood to [this one](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35we4tLVu1ronm4i.jpg), and showed a little girl holding a doll and looking fearfully at a flying bee. I always considered it nightmare fodder, but after looking at some of Keane’s other work, I see it could have been worse! Agreed. I had a large print of [this sad puppy](http://www.etsy.com/listing/112005017/fridge-magnet-gig-keane-big-sad-eye-pity) on the wall from the ages of about 4-7. It was horrifying, and I have no idea what my mother was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/47 "2013-07-18T01:48:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Um, holy crap. I was still looking for a link to the picture I talked about above, when I stumbled on the work of [Mark Ryden](http://www.markryden.com/index.html)… That is some seriously weird shit. He has a thing for Abraham Lincoln, doesn’t he? Brrrr. > [@Athena](#): > > …The store that sold the murals had one of the earth rising from the moon, something like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise)… I have that on my cellphone right now! A wonderful image. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/48 "2013-07-18T02:50:39Z")
My family took a trip to the Smithsonian without me but they brought me back the Watering Can girl picture for my room, because they said it reminded them of me (I loved watering plants). My sister got the much prettier Pinky and the [Woman Reading a Book](https://www.google.com/search?q=girl+reading+book+painting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3FXnUeyROeaMyAHUtoHoDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=666&bih=275#facrc=0%3Bwoman%20reading%20book%20painting&imgrc=_) painting for her room, both of which I coveted for years. A few years ago when I finally got to go to the Smithsonian, I sent my sis a picture of the painting, and bought her a postcard of it, sent them to her saying how they always remind me of her, and she cried…she had forgotten all about that trip and was surprised I still remembered it, including what I got to do with Grandma while they schlepped around museums! The only other picture I remember before Mom bought dozens of “classic” oil paintings at the grocery store and I got stuck with Italian countrysides and crashing waves on the shoreline, is a little flocked picture postcard of a lamb that glowed in the dark and had a little poem on it about going to sleep…like a lamb. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/49 "2013-07-18T15:36:33Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Like the song says, I had a “Star Wars poster on my bedroom door”. My door had a mirror. The hallway side had an “Authorized Personnel Only” sign that came with the house. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/50 "2013-07-18T23:53:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yikes. Putting those big-eyed pics in a child’s room practically qualifies as child abuse. Hell, those pictures scared me as an adult. Why not just put [this](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/05/edvard_munch_the_scream_a_p.jpg)in your room? :eek: Or this: [http://images.tcj.com/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-09-at-12.04.26-AM.png](http://images.tcj.com/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-09-at-12.04.26-AM.png) ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/51 "2013-07-19T00:24:28Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > My childhood can best be described as Unfortunately Very 1970s, so the piece I remember the most was a framed print of a child’s bedtime prayer, and the art with it was a very folksy, Laura Ingalls/Holly Hobby type “country” girl saying her prayers. > > On the horrific side of things, I also had a creepy ass Raggedy Ann painted on a piece of wood. My brother had the matching Raggedy Andy in his room. Not quite like [this](http://img2.etsystatic.com/008/0/5919524/il_fullxfull.407608098_5xbd.jpg), but in the same neighborhood. I never think this, let alone post it, but, are you me? I had the Holly Hobbie girl saying her prayers and the Raggedy Ann painted on wood. I also had Holly Hobbie wall paper. It was there until we sold the house when I was 21. I just looked for a picture of it, and I am more than a little creeped out by the fact that you cannot see her face. I feel a great Halloween costume coming on… ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525/52 "2013-07-20T08:36:45Z")
Margaret Keane reproductions - ballet dancers and harlequins. UT~ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-bedroom-art/663525.md?page=2)