Oh and the whiteboard, for our weightlifting schedules and general to-do crap.
I’ve lived in this big old house for almost 2 years, and none of the stuff I mentioned (except for Rosie) was put up untill this past September. My living room is also the only room in the house that has anything hanging.
It doesn’t take long for me to just get used to whatever is around, whether it is nothing or not. But now that I’ve made the concerted effort to place, center, and hang things, I do find myself gazing at them all the time. YMMV.
In our living room:
A poster from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We call it The Three Fates, although I’m not sure the weaving Classical Greek-looking ladies are really supposed to be them.
A Poster from Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton, N.Y. It shows a Griffin.
An art print of an owl
A painting of two owls
An original color drawing of Pepper Mill holding a griffin, by Robin Wood.
Here in my office I’ve got a big copy of The Unicorn in Captivity tapestry, the last in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn from the series now in the Cloisters museum.
Large maps and the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Plus a picture of her a friend of mine stuck to my wall for some reason last time she visited.
A framed B+W photo of a B-17 in flight.
There was a Far Side calander, but it fell and I never got around to getting the motivation to put it back up.
I also had a little wall shelf, and on it were two candles and a vase thigny, but the shelf was cheap and fell off the wall, smashing the vase thingy and candles, and I never bothered to get a new, better, shelf.
I also have an old cigar ad, circa 1900, that is framed and I got back in August, that I have never put up.
I collect vintage metal trays with floral or fruit patterns. Most of them are in the Dining Room and Kitchen.
In the Living Room, I have a large whorehouse mirror that hides some bad spots in the wall. I also have a couple of neo-classic prints.
Hallway- small tapestry of a fruit tree.
Bedroom- floral print, full-length mirror, and another tray
Kid’s Room- 2 SpongeBob posters, An IMAX movie poster, A Tomb Raider poster, one of those things that list the stuff that was popular the day you were born.
3rd Bedroom/Den- a couple of baby pictures of my son, a couple of swords, a Civil War bayonette
Front Bathroom - medicine cabinet/mirror, floral print
Back Bathroom - floral tapestry, mirror
Utility Room/ Husband’s Office - calender, lots of shelves
Velvetine paintings, but they’re not Elvis. They’re western USA animal spirt paintings and a Protection Man-Del-A made by the people of The Silver Bird in New Mexico.
I love art, but I don’t have nearly as much good stuff as I should have, mostly because we can’t afford it and we have rough cedar walls, which doesn’t always show off the art as well as you’d want it to.
Okay…we have fieldstone walls as well. On one of those jutting stones, I have a ceramic goat that looks surprisingly like my husband.
I have a plywood laminate Clint Eastwood picture. This is one of those compromises married people make. Sigh…
I have an authentic steer skull, on whose horns is draped a 9-foot bull whip. Actually, I love this thing. I’m into bones.
I have three watercolors of a ladybug walking up and down a blade of grass. They were painted by my aunt who is quite an accomplished artist. I adore these paintings.
I also have a plant hanger that has a cowboy hat parked on it. I know this sounds like the Country-Western Haven of the Midwest, but trust me…that couldn’t be further from the truth.
In the Den we have my framed diplomas and Pepper Mill’s, along with a Medusa mask I made in ceramic after an ancient antefix ftrom Syracusser, and a Phantom of the Opera mask of Pepper’s (She’s a big fan of the musical), along with two framed Bugs Bunny cels. One’s a “dfor show” one signed by Chuck Jones, the other a “working” cel actually used in “A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court”.
Doper Women are going to roll their eyes. I can feel them rolling already, with thoughts of ‘He really needs to get a woman in that house.’
Living room: Unframed Vagabond movie poster, a nice framed Betty Blue movie poster (the artsy one where it’s just Béatrice Dalle sitting in a chair), a Classic Motorsports car calendar, a Pirate Bendy action figure in its bubble pack, and an Edgar Allan Poe action figure in its bubble pack.
Litchen/Dining room: A mechanical plastic shark that climbs a string to the top, which is a swimmer bitten in two, a thermometer, a sieve, a large nautical chart of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Straite of Georgia, a Buddhist scroll, and a framed Tank Girl movie poster.
Big bedroom: It’s empty, so I haven’t put anything on the walls.
Middle bedroom: A framed, signed and numbered lithograph called Phantoms by Kissinger, which depicts an F-4 Phantom from VX-4 (NAS Pt. Mugu) flying in the clouds. A shadowy fedora-wearing face can be seen in the clouds. A framed, signed and numbered lithograph called Launch Of The A-2; a framed, signed, B&W photograph of some train tracks in L.A. by Scott Kilburn, and old friend of mine; a framed collection of Apollo mission patches including the 8-inch Apollo patch.
Small bedroom: A framed Regulations For The Operations Of Aircraft (1920) printed on faux parchment.
Oh, wait. I forgot the area near the front door. There I have a nice barometer, brass and wood, a small photo of a biplane (I think it’s a Jenny) in a lone tree with the caption ‘Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.’, a small clolour lithograph of a Kwakiutl ceremony, and an Edward S. Curtis print of a Kwakiutl looking up at a mummy that is being smoked.
On the walls in my home office, I have:
- two original comic drawings from Something Positive
- a signed print of a For Better or For Worse comic strip
- a print of several old baseball parks, issued by the Postal Service in conjunction with a stamp series
- a stock certificate from the Chloride-Arizona Copper Company (circa 1920 or so)
There is a bunch of stuff hung around other areas of the house, but it’s pretty much all the Girlfriend’s stuff so I won’t count it.
Living Room
The blue prints of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
An ‘attaction poster’ from Disneyland for the Sky Way.
This vintage poster for stockings.
A group of six photos that I took at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden around the Japanese Garden.
A series of photos taken in Paris and in the Loire valley. (Pont Neuf, inside the Lourve, Notre Dame, Sacre Coure, Azay le Rediue, Cheononcoue, the spelling is getting worse) I also have a nice photo of the Brooklyn Bridge with the WTC behind it. and a vintage magazine cover called Frou Frou. and finally four pictures I took around the neighborhood last spring.
In the hall, I have the three posters from the special edition of the Star Wars Trilogy framed. And three more pictures from France. The Venus de Milo, A castle called Samur and a image taken inside Notre Dame.
The kitchen has three photos I took of the Gates.
The bedroom.
Has four photos of professional models that I took at a fashion show.
Six images, (taken from a calander) of the six unicorn tapestries and a little tapestry pull desigened from that.
Then I have three posters on the wall.
This one of 'Cupidon"
A vintage ad poster for the Paris Zoo with two big cats on it. (can’t find a link)
A poster I got at the Met the other day.
You can see most of the photos I’ve taken and put on my wall here.
Spackle.
Really.
We’re mid-remodel.
After that, who knows? My dearly beloved and I are debating the matter in a friendly sort of fashion. He’s leaning towards fantasy-genre prints of mostly-naked, cartoon-figured women and I’m not so much. Or at least not only those as the sole decorative motif.
Oh, I forgot, I alsoi have a mirror in my living room. It looks like a four-paneled window, but obviously with mirror panels, not regular glass. Also stuck in in the corner of it is a little insert that looks like a chest x-ray that came with the Scrubs: Season 1 DVD set.
On the door to the closed up attic I also have a Tick bumper sticker pinned up that says “Honk if you love Justice!”
On my living room window sill is a small pumpkin that has Bender’s face (from Futurama, not The Breakfast Club) drawn on it. I have a friend who has a pumpkin with Zoidberg’s face on it. Though at some point Bender will have to go, since Pumpkins do rot.
Paint.
4 framed abstract prints by Gockel
2 framed Guinness adverts with Toucan
1 mounted Guinness advert with toucans
3 ceramic Guinness Toucans in formation
1 Guinness calendar, 2002, turned to April/Toucan
1 framed page from Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks of a drawing of a horse
1 framed print of an artistic rendering of a street in New Orleans
1 framed poster of Charlie Parker appearing at Birdland
Telephone
I have three stone rubbings from Siam, a giraffe painting from Africa, 6 commissioned original paintings by Dean Stanton. 2 prints by Anthony Robert Klitz, 2 original paintings by Bonnie Haughton, an original silk screen by a textiles artist, a water color and sculpture from an up and coming artist, a lithograph that I just purchased at the ACAD show and sale, two handpainted Italian tiles, a painting by my Great Aunt, a number of pieces of needle point by my grandmother, many, many small original works - many of which were purchased on a trip to New Orleans, as well as a sizable amount of my own work, both photography and painting.
Basically, way too much stuff based on how much wall space I actually have.
In the living room:
6 copies of the “Cupid” photograph (the little curly-haired child with the bow and arrow) all of various sizes and arranged around each other.
An etching of our church (built in 1700)
A walnut mirror made in about 1800
An original etching by Kerr Eby of the stained glass window at Rouen cathedral
In the dining room:
A mirror over the sideboard
In our bedroom:
An orginal work by Anne Chenowith (a local artist). It incorporates Gaugin’s Tahitian women and is absolutely terrific. It fits the decor and colors of the bedroom perfectly.
In the lving room of my apartment (inhabited by three college guys):
A “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” poster
A Jack Skellington (from “Nightmare before Christmas”) poster
A bad-ass grim reaper poster
Amy Lee poster
Anna Kournikova poster