What's on your walls |Pad Patter 7.20

[bestcee]

Do you hang photos on your walls? Or layouts? Or paintings?

In my bedroom, we hung up 6 photos of just us over the last 16 years. I love it! I also have 3 layouts hanging over my desk where I scrap. I hung up a family photo in the living room.

And my only thought is: why didn't I do this sooner?

How about you? What's hanging on your walls in your home?

 

[michelepixels]

My husband isn't a fan of portraits or much of anything up on the wall and I don't feel strongly about home decor in general, so we have very little on our walls and it doesn't change much. Almost everything on the walls now was placed in 2011 when we had a major redecorating, including painting all the walls in our house.

Above my desk, in a nook off the kitchen, I have a collage of photos I hung in 2011, so all the photos are 2011 or earlier, a clock, a 16x20 family portrait I made in 2014, and a Bernie 2016 poster. In the family room above the mantel hangs a huge wood print of a photo of my kids playing at the beach which only exists because I won it in the 2013 Clickinmoms Scavenger Hunt (prior to that we had remained indecisive about what to put there and it was empty!). Also we have 3 candle sconces on the family room walls. The t.v. room has a few cool movie posters and an old, huge astronomy chart my husband acquired before we met. The other front room, which was intended to be the kids' office, but only my son really uses it anymore, has some prints of animals and airplanes on the walls. We still haven't put anything on the walls in our own bedroom, nor has my son. My girls have the most decorated walls in the house, with all their posters and stuff, as you can imagine. Oh! I also have 2 8x10 prints of nature photos I made myself in my main floor bathroom!

That's it!

 

[cookingmylife]

Very little as we lost a couple of walls when we renovated plus our rooms are small and most have windows. What I do have up around the house are maps, including one large vintage one from a London Baedecker that I had framed back in the 60s. My eldest said he wants that one when I die! I used to have a lot of family photos on an upright piano but that ended when the first piano was claimed back by and ex boyfriend, and then the piano my husband brought with me finally went to a son. (Thank god as dh plays with a very heavy hand!)

We do have this print from a visit to the Barnes in our entrance hallway. Periodically I will put a lipstick kiss sticker on her ykw...visitors often try not to giggle at that. My husband just ignores the sticker...

 

[scrapsandsass]

In our office we have a photo wall(s) that I did a couple of years ago. I probably should update with some current photos.

In my living room, I have a couple of pieces of art from Sissy Sparrows and a small print from Mark Ryden. I also have a Kelly Rae Roberts print and a print of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Kind of an eclectic mix.


And I have one of these with silver antlers.

 

[Tiff]

I've been trying to be more strategic about wall hangings, and trying to use my own photography.

This is the entry hall with mostly my own photography


In my living room I have a Charles Wysocki print still up from the fall. I have another cat print, but it is more a winter look with a tree with bare branches. My SIL has made me a pallet American flag that I plan to use here for spring/summer, but I haven't traveled to pick it up.


I have some of my own photography in the bathrooms too.


We have our diplomas in the hall, as well as an engagement portrait.

 

[navaja77]

My long wall that spans the kitchen and living room has all my personal photography photos, school photos, sports photos and family photos. It's probably overwhelming to some but I love looking at everyone I love whose photos are on that wall. My bedroom wall is blank with a few photos but mostly blank. I have been meaning to do something but I have no home decor skills

 

[BevG]

Living room - a print & 4 plaques that are Chinese related & a framed traditional scrapbook page of 25 Years of Blessing (a tree with a blessing from each year we have been married written on the leaves).
Dining room - Photo I took of the Bodie lighthouse at sunset, flower painting an elderly friend painted, a lithograph of a cottage, and a Chinese silk with pandas.
Family room & kitchen - lithograph of river in France, lithograph of Garfield the cat in a Norman Rockwell painting, photos of family, and a display board that I rotate page prints on (my photos with quotes)
Library - sketch of Spock of Star Trek done by some dude at a Comic Con
Hall - Another display board with quote page prints & a landscape photo a photography classmate took
Bedrooms - Fine Art version of a photo of a blue heron I took (colors are inverted), some huge painting of ships on a green sea that my son got at a garage sale for $10, and a sketch of Doctor Who in my daughter's window looking out at the world. Posters here and there.
Here and there - framed cross stitch from back when I had time to do that and before I discovered scrapbooks.

So a mix of the typical, plus some of my photos and some of my digital pages.

 

[djp332]

I have a lot of my own photographs enlarged and printed on canvases in most of the walls in my house. I got a coupon a few years ago from Fabness.com, so I thought I try them. Well, the finished product was beautiful, so I ordered another, and another, and another. The more I ordered, the more coupons codes I kept getting. Some of my canvasses are huge, and I've not paid more than $60 for any of them.

 

[gonewiththewind]

I am the queen of hanging stuff on my walls. My hubby likes to joke that we are going to add on to the house so I can have more walls or that he will start hanging stuff on the ceiling.

There are no blank walls in my home. It suits me and makes me very happy.

I'll have to take some photos tomorrow of my walls. I think it would make a great spread of layouts . . . "if these walls could talk."

 

[meterr]

Photos of rellies (going waay back!) photos of unknown vintage people I found in junk shops who I felt bad for, maps, kids art, my art, plates, mirrors in frames, plaques with sayings, vintage items, old window frames, giant 70s wooden spoon and fork, silver platters with painted on sayings,velvet paintings, clocks, 70s embroidery, flags, mini shelves with little collections on them. Yeah, eclectic looking place we have LOL

 

[jk703]

A mirror in the DR, my painted art in one of the bathrooms, and Framed Art, Studio look in the hallway... like this:

I have a painted piece of a French street corner to re-frame and then hang. It was my grandparents. I also have some other prints that I would like to get done for our bedroom. Other rooms are plain, I imagine that the boys will want to start hanging things soon.

 

[Scrapping with Liz]

I love hanging stuff up. My favorite way to decorate a wall is to do a gallery wall with various photos, prints and other fun things. I especially like to go to thrift stores and find vintage/antique looking frames/prints.

I also have a big chalkboard up in my living room. I know, weird. But I love redecorating it every season. Sometimes I'll do some fancy art work, other times I let my kids decorate it and sometimes I just use it for school lessons.

We moved into our house about 8 months ago, and I still have quite a few walls to fix up....but since the house is all brand new I am enjoying some of the cleanly painted walls. I'm a little afraid to decorate them.

 

[Karen]

I recently been painting a lot, and I took at abstract floral class in the spring/early summer and ended up with two giant flower paintings that I loved, so those are now in my living room. Then I made a 3' x 4' abstract painting with a "starry night" vibe and lots of a blues, pinks and purples in the sky. I LOVE it, but I've run out of large walls in my house, so that is downstairs in my craft room which kinda bums me out. I'd really love to see it more often.

Otherwise, we have some large photos we've purchased at our local art fair that I love and some photo collages, plus wedding photos enlarged.