# Things we'd like to have on our walls. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041 "2003-02-28T01:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/1 "2003-02-28T01:34:32Z")
I would like to have a large highly detailed version of [this](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2805105.stm) on my wall. (click on the picture) [sub](amongst the clothingly-challenged models of course. I am not _completely_ sad)[/sub] What would _you_ like to have on your wall? ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/2 "2003-02-28T01:48:52Z")
I’d like more original art on my walls. I only have four paintings, and honestly, I’d love to have one for every wall. I’d also like a tapestry, much like the ones which used to decorate castle walls, but smaller, of course. I don’t know why-- I just want one. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/3 "2003-02-28T01:56:57Z")
I’d love to have original artwork - all I have now are some prints, and a framed antique quilt square. The quilt square is lovely, but the prints are just…prints. I like them, sure. Tapestries sound neat - especially on the masonry walls in my apartment. Heck, colored paint on the walls would be great. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/4 "2003-02-28T02:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\*I’d love to have original artwork - all I have now are some prints, and a framed antique quilt square. The quilt square is lovely, but the prints are just…prints. I like them, sure. > \*\* Someone I know works in a prison, and I buy art made by the inmates. Some of these guys are incredibly talented. (One painting I have is based on a picture from \* National Geographic \* of a waterfall. It’s gorgeous!) The paintings are incredibly affordable. I recently bought a 3X3 oil painting for $30. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/5 "2003-02-28T03:00:47Z")
I’d like to have a life-size X-ray of my own skeleton. ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/6 "2003-02-28T03:43:22Z")
No contest. a [Feathercraft K1](http://www.feathercraft.com/k1.html) and a [National c. 1927 Style 3 Tricone Roundneck #0932, excellent, OH.](http://www.mandoweb.com/83-2979.jpg) Shoot, I **must** have 23k around here somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/7 "2003-02-28T03:54:09Z")
A year ago I went to one of those Buy Cheap Art But They are Make with Real Oil Paints shows and bought some nice painting, like over half a dozen. Then a week ago I went and bought a couple more. So I guess I would like to just have those hung on my walls. My excuse is that I have been remodeling the house and I think in a few days will finally finish with it. I got interupted in the middle! So MAYBE next weekend, but then again I might be able to procrastinate some more. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/8 "2003-02-28T04:25:52Z")
I would really enjoy a [Keith Haring](http://www.haring.com/) print. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/9 "2003-02-28T04:38:48Z")
I want several Lawren Harris paintings and some nice big black and white photos, preferably by a photographer friend. I have a big celctic knotwork blanket up on my wall at the foot of the bed. It’s kind of like a tapestry, I guess. Oh, yeah, and a friend of mine has a Monet print on a big silk scarf. She’s got it up on her wall. It’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/10 "2003-02-28T06:50:13Z")
A portrait of myself done by Lucien Freud in the living room. A Schiele in the office. One of Cassat’s “Mother and Child” paintings in the girls’ room. The Three Stages of Woman by Klimt over the sideboard in the dining room. A John Singer Sargent over the fireplace in the front room with My Wife, My Horse and Myself by Munnings by the settee. Barring the above, what I’d _really_ like to see on my walls is paint. As opposed to the present layer of crayola, play makeup and Lyle’s Golden Syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/11 "2003-02-28T07:07:25Z")
Someone in France, IIRC, did this with their house and ever since I saw it, it’s something that I’ve wanted to do. They were friends with a lot of the great artists of the early 20th Century and they had them over for a house party. They gave each artist a wall, and let them paint whatever they wanted. Naturally, the house now is incredibly valuable simply for the artwork on the walls. I can’t think of a cooler way to decorate one’s house than to do something similar. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/12 "2003-02-28T09:25:24Z")
Once I get more time, I would spend a month and make some CG art like on the following pages: 1. [Sueng Ho](http://henrik.cgcommunity.com/cg_01.htm) 2. [Wiro’s Snowtrapper](http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/arild_wiro1.jpg) 3. [Pascal Marie](http://raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/ag-ap399.html) 4. [DESKMan-ME](http://contest.3dluvr.com/archive/show.php?sid=506) 5. [Autumn Whisperlings](http://www.deviantart.com/view/559265) 6. [TRANSIT](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1070624) 7. [MBotv5](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1042173) 8. [Castle Luminescence](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1030523) 9. [Guardians of lernes Thyres](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1004015) 10. [I can’t catch You](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1003029) 11. [Eye Witness](http://www.deviantart.com/view/967473) 12. [Dead Man tells no Tale](http://www.deviantart.com/view/673486) _or maybe photography_ 1. [Cold Shadow](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1128058) 2. [Frosty Morning](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1124360) 3. [Northern Reflections](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1119143) 4. [Ice Flower](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1050517) 5. [HUK](http://www.deviantart.com/view/1048415) 6. [Happy Winter](http://www.deviantart.com/view/985656) ---
**Author:** ![Felonious\_Mink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Felonious\_Mink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felonious_Mink)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/13 "2003-02-28T10:32:10Z")
I’d love to have a Rothko picture on my wall - I saw some of his work in Tate Modern a couple of years ago and have been wishing every since! Other than that, I quite like winter photography - trees and snow and stuff like that. There’s also a fantastic picture that my friend has on her wall, it’s of a frozen waterfall that she saw in Sweden. It’s just so eerie! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/14 "2003-02-28T10:44:39Z")
This painting always makes me smile. I want to put it over the dining room buffet but it might put some people off their feed. 🙂 [http://hdcoutlet.artselect.com/perl/frMagnify?artID=14747&matID=949&frameID=295](http://hdcoutlet.artselect.com/perl/frMagnify?artID=14747&matID=949&frameID=295) ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/15 "2003-02-28T15:06:42Z")
Paintings?! No, I’d like a collection of medieval swords and axes adorning my walls. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/16 "2003-02-28T15:10:20Z")
Wallpaper mad out of Berkshire-Hathaway stock certificates ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/17 "2003-02-28T15:15:57Z")
A flat-screen TV. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/18 "2003-02-28T15:31:29Z")
We (my fiancee and I) are in the process of buying our first house, and I’ve actually been thinking a lot about what to put on our walls. It seems that all my friends have “unique” things on their walls in lieu of the more standard Monet prints. one friend, who majored in architecture in college, has detailed architectural drawings of various historical Roman structures. Another friend has pages from an old botanical encyclopedia shoing full-color drawings of various exotic plants and lots of Latin text. Well, I used to do a bit of nature photography years ago, and I managed to take a few shots that I think look pretty darn good. After consulting with the wife-to-be, I decided to have some of them blown up to 10x15 and then matted and framed them. They may not be the world’s most incredible pictures, but at least I know that nobody else will have them on their wall. [Lighting and Rainbow](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/lightning&rainbow.jpg) [Sunset Over a Snowy Field](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/sunset_1.jpg) [Moon in Daylight](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/moon_2.jpg) [Pelican in Flight](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/pelican.jpg) [Lake Minedoka in July](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/lake_2.jpg) [Tale of a Whale](http://barrygoldberg.net/photos/whale_2.jpg) Regards, Barry ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/19 "2003-02-28T15:49:23Z")
We just repainted our whole downstairs and the walls are presently bare, so this is currently a timely question. Immediately, we want some fucking curtains. (Well, not literaly. Being the boring old farts we are most of our fucking takes place upstairs in the bedroom.) Just ordered some the other da. On the walls, I’d really like some architectural elements, either salvaged or recreations such as Sullivan/Wright medallions and such. [http://www.wrightcatalog.org/wallpanels.html](http://www.wrightcatalog.org/wallpanels.html) Would also like to add in some framed tiles - either singles or scenes. [http://www.alchemiestudio.com/aslandscapes.html](http://www.alchemiestudio.com/aslandscapes.html) [http://www.artsandcraftstile.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cart=1653&cat=1&PHPSESSID=3e41abb7f40b3f89f1cb71a5b4fa3abb](http://www.artsandcraftstile.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cart=1653&cat=1&PHPSESSID=3e41abb7f40b3f89f1cb71a5b4fa3abb) We also are interested in botanical artwork. Either detailed drawings/paintings, or pressed plant material. And we’ve got a few pieces of art - mostly watercolors, that we’ll probably look into rematting. I’m also a big fan of maps of all kinds. Geographic, political, satellite, historical, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041/20 "2003-03-01T05:38:15Z")
Barry, the photo of the lightening and rainbow is mighty fine! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-wed-like-to-have-on-our-walls/158041.md?page=2)