# what sorts of things do mature adults hang on their walls? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152 "2015-05-16T01:24:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/81 "2015-05-18T03:38:24Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Please tell me the clock is real, but runs backwards. šŸ˜ƒ That would be awesome, wouldnā€™t it? šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/82 "2015-05-18T04:48:17Z")
My favorite, which I find them hard to find, are optical illusion pictures. Where you look at it one way and see one thing then another and see something else. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/83 "2015-05-18T05:20:45Z")
Ladies, when i said : donā€™t hang nudes, i was not referring to cubist art. I was referring to posters of playmates, and sexy picture posters of any woman clearly hung on the wall because it is a sexy poster. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/84 "2015-05-18T05:28:55Z")
Like this one, a swimsuit illustrated poster of Kate Upton. That one is from the top ten of [allposters.com](http://allposters.com) bestsellers list. [Home | Art.com](http://www.allposters.nl/-sp/Kate-Upton-Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-2013-Cover-Poster_i9415393_.htm) Hanging such a poster in your room gives the impression youā€™re a male teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Terry\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Terry\_Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terry_Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/85 "2015-05-18T07:43:29Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Iā€™ll bet that the people who are making fun of you are not mature adults. > > Everybody has something that they like, and everybodyā€™s different. > > Put up whatever you makes you happy. Yup. Some art might be an investment, but you canā€™t buy it based on that (well, not unless youā€™re buying a Picasso or something like that). Buy what you like and what you can afford - for example, [this](https://www.tmk.com/transient/stereo3.jpg) photo over my bed is a now-famous Stuart Klipper, purchased at a gallery in New York City before this era of his work became well-known. Thereā€™s a smaller version in the collection of [The Art Institute of Chicago](http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/195756?index=0). I probably should get it appraised to get an idea what it would be worth today. The smaller picture to the left is one of my own shots, taken in a normally closed-to-outsiders-no-photography under-river utility tunnel. The only other wall art in the bedroom is a [DSOTM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon) platinum record, signed to me by two of the band members. Thereā€™s a variety of functional art in the room, like [this retro Nixie Tube Clock](https://www.tmk.com/mod-6-nixie/6F5S8511-l.jpg). On the crazy side, I knew someone who lived a few blocks from here (since passed away and house torn down) who had a real Old Master painting (painter and subject unnamed to protect the people concerned) hanging in his basement stairwell. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/86 "2015-05-18T19:57:16Z")
Adults hang whatever the hell they want on their walls, because they are grown. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/87 "2015-05-18T20:49:13Z")
Hang up some nude posters of porn stars. Thatā€™ll show your friends how mature you are. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/88 "2015-05-18T21:24:54Z")
What do I prefer to hang on my wall? How do I express my maturity and seriousness? The severed heads of my enemies. And if anyone comes over and expresses any type of serious disapproval, perhaps stating how they donā€™t think this conveys the correct maturity, wellā€¦ thatā€™s just more heads for the wall. šŸ˜ƒ Of course, I kid. Iā€™m just kidding. Severed heads drip blood down the wall, and even after theyā€™re bled out, the brains and other headish bits decomposingā€¦ Butā€¦ Iā€™ve said too muchā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/89 "2015-05-18T23:03:47Z")
Seconding that just about anything will go over, as long as itā€™s framed, _except_ cheesecakey pictures of women. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/90 "2015-05-18T23:33:18Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > even after theyā€™re bled out, the brains and other headish bits decomposingā€¦ Try a good coat of yacht varnish, seals those suckers right up and stops the decomposition completely. Plus, you can buff 'em up to a nice shine too. At leastā€¦ thatā€™s what I heard. From aā€¦ friend. Yes, a friend told me. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/91 "2015-05-18T23:50:06Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Dogs playing poker. [Cats playing hungry hungry hippos.](http://theoatmeal.com/blog/cats_playing_hippos) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/92 "2015-05-19T00:09:59Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Seconding that just about anything will go over, as long as itā€™s framed, _except_ cheesecakey pictures of women. So beefcakey pictures of men are okay? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/93 "2015-05-19T00:42:12Z")
> [@brainstall](#): > > Frame them. Then they are not posters, they become art. IKEA has cheap frames for posters. I have a framed original 1-sheet from _A Room with a View_ in my living room. Itā€™s a beautiful poster, and itā€™s collectible, because itā€™s actually an original from the first run of the film. I got it because I was a projectionist in college for an art film series. I have a couple of other framed original 1-sheets that are from movies not as famous as _A Room with a View_, and not worth as much, but I think they are attractive. See, it kind of depends on the movie. If I had a poster, even an original 1-sheet, of the Transformers movie, maybe not so cool. I know a film professor who has a framed poster from _Metreopolis_ in his living room. I have no idea its vintage-- whether itā€™s connected with the original release, or original US release, or what, but itā€™s very cool. I also have a poster I have had since I was ten that says (only in French) ā€œWelcome to the festival of arts in the USSR,ā€ and has a photo of a Bolshoi production of _Swan Lake_. Itā€™s an official Intourist poster, which was the Soviet tourist promotions organization. We used to get our tickets for the Bolshoi from them when we lived in Moscow. The poster is beautiful, and reminds me of one of my favorite things about my time there. I have other non-poster things, like family photos. I have a photo of my father, when he was 16, performing on stage as a magicianā€™s assistant. I have my great-grandparents wedding picture. I have a pillow my great-aunt in Slovakia embroidered, that my mothered used for years, but it was getting threadbare, so she had the embroidered section framed. I have the tallis I made for my wedding, that my son was wrapped in for his bris. I have a letter Lillian Gish wrote to me when I was 17. I have a small, 3x3 snapshot matted in a 7x8 frame, of my father reading the comics section to me when I was about 7 months old. I have a page from a first folio, from _Measure for Measure_. My father acquired it somewhere, and I inherited it. I also have a painting that was my fatherā€™s, which is an anti-Stalin painting that somehow made it out of Soviet Russia, and my father had since the 60s. So, movie posters are just fine. Framing them is a good idea, though. They do look a lot better, and they keep better too. Itā€™s my opinion that having a variety of things is nice, but the poster who said that adults donā€™t comment on other peopleā€™s choice of decor was spot-on. Put up what pleases you. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/94 "2015-05-19T02:18:49Z")
When I was in my early twenties I had a professionally mounted and framed poster of [Pink Floydā€™s Wish You Were Here](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_album)) on my wall. I really liked it, but when I got married I figured it wasnā€™t exactly the kind of thing my wife would like on our walls. I gave it to a friend from work. I miss that poster, and I hope he has enjoyed it and taken care of it over the past 24 years. I canā€™t get another oneā€”my wifeā€™s opinion has not changed. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/95 "2015-05-19T03:54:02Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > What do I prefer to hang on my wall? How do I express my maturity and seriousness? > > The severed heads of my enemies. > > ā€¦ > > Of course, I kid. Iā€™m just kidding. Severed heads drip blood down the wall, and even after theyā€™re bled out, the brains and other headish bits decomposingā€¦ Thatā€™s why you put them on the spikes of your iron-grille fence, silly! Much easier to clean, much more effective at keeping undesirables away. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/96 "2015-05-19T04:13:41Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > ā€œWould you like to come up and advise me on my etchings?ā€ No, thanks, itā€™s getting kind of late. ā€¦ :smack: Damn it! ā€œEtchingsā€ is ā€œsexā€! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/97 "2015-05-20T15:02:35Z")
Couldnā€™t tell you, I donā€™t think I am a mature adult. On my walls: [A Larry Elmore painting](http://www.vaultcollectibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/16-larry-elmore-signed-autograph-eyes-of-autumn-signature-art-print-original-sketch-1.jpg). A Magic Eye poster. A magic winter/summer picture that changes seasons depending on the angle you view it. [The Kramer.](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/a/ab/The_kramer.png/revision/latest?cb=20110324223110) A guitar-shaped clock. A [Backwards Clock.](http://s1.thcdn.com/productimg/0/600/600/45/30002245-1286538321-877000.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/98 "2015-05-20T15:38:14Z")
Iā€™ve got a framed print of M.C. Escherā€™s [Ascending & Descending](http://www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/ascending-descending) in the den. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/99 "2015-05-20T18:21:06Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [The Kramer.](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/a/ab/The_kramer.png/revision/latest?cb=20110324223110) He is a loathsome, offensive brute, and yet I canā€™t look away. I didnā€™t know this was available! ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152/100 "2015-05-20T20:15:49Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Iā€™ve also got the plastic model of the Cygnus from Disneyā€™s ā€œThe Black Holeā€ on a wall shelf. Oh, man, I am green with envy! I would love to own a _Cygnus_. That, and a [Revell ā€œtrash canā€ space station](http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Revell%20H1805-498%20SpaceStNM.JPG). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sorts-of-things-do-mature-adults-hang-on-their-walls/720152.md?page=6)