Ariele put up some posters in our apartment yesterday... which means its time for me to buy some posters to put in our apartment. But there's a problem
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I like having pictures I've taken blown up, because they are personal and there is a story to tell for all of them. There are photographs all over my house.
As for artists, I really like JMW Turner. He did one called Rain, Steam, and Speed I have always loved. I also love Van Gogh, I don't care how cheesy that is. I also use antique ads. My kitchen has a reproduction of an ad for French Champagne that I love.
Really, just look around and you'll find something you love. Those poster websites have a HUGE variety.
I used plenty of Andy Warhol and Toulouse-Lautrec (specifically his dance hall posters, which were created to be posters in the first place so you don't have to feel cheap buying posters of them!) when I decorated my first apartment in Boston. I had a couple Picassos too (this one was in my kitchen because the colors are so tasty-looking). And I had a Matisse over my sofa, which I chose for the extremely prosaic reason that the blue matched the slipcover exactly.
What kind of art do you like best? That'll help you pick what you want to look at every day.
Oh, and Picasso's Joie de Vivre was in my bedroom because - zoom in on the photo and look - the antelope have happy smiley faces. It made me grin every time I looked at it, so I hung it up right where it would be the first thing I saw every morning.
In Steve's first apartment in Boston, he hung up a lot of maps. He liked maps of the Boston area and maps of the area in Michigan where we're from, specifically. It wasn't my taste as much, but he really liked it. That could be an idea for you too.
I love warm colors, warm paintings, things that are related to the outdoors (sticks, rocks, shells), and maps.
A shadow box with trinkets you've collected is always fun--I have shells from the North Sea and the Arabian Sea, stuff from the Ganges, Danube, Thames, Gulf of Mexico, rocks from Lake Victoria, driftwood from the Pacific Northwest and from Lake Erie...I put them on the walls.
Also, maps. My parents had loads of old, outdated maps. In an era of GPS and google, no one hardly uses them anymore but they are so interesting. So many places, people, things to do! Good conversation starters.
As far as paintings, I love Vermeer. Gives a place some coziness.
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As for artists, I really like JMW Turner. He did one called Rain, Steam, and Speed I have always loved. I also love Van Gogh, I don't care how cheesy that is. I also use antique ads. My kitchen has a reproduction of an ad for French Champagne that I love.
Really, just look around and you'll find something you love. Those poster websites have a HUGE variety.
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I disagree. I love white walls. But over the past 2 years, I have put up three black and white posters :)
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What kind of art do you like best? That'll help you pick what you want to look at every day.
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In Steve's first apartment in Boston, he hung up a lot of maps. He liked maps of the Boston area and maps of the area in Michigan where we're from, specifically. It wasn't my taste as much, but he really liked it. That could be an idea for you too.
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Also? I was totally looking for stylized maps of Cleveland... but I couldn't find any I liked, haha.
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A shadow box with trinkets you've collected is always fun--I have shells from the North Sea and the Arabian Sea, stuff from the Ganges, Danube, Thames, Gulf of Mexico, rocks from Lake Victoria, driftwood from the Pacific Northwest and from Lake Erie...I put them on the walls.
Also, maps. My parents had loads of old, outdated maps. In an era of GPS and google, no one hardly uses them anymore but they are so interesting. So many places, people, things to do! Good conversation starters.
As far as paintings, I love Vermeer. Gives a place some coziness.
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As for my favorite art currently...Japanese woodblock prints! gorgeous colors.
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