Do you buy paintings for your house ?

[protectionist]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

What do you have, and if your walls need something to brighten them up, liven them up, have you thought about adding some culture and color to them ? I really wonder if people think much about what is on the walls of their house, that they see every day.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Yes, local artist excellent work and hides things in his paintings. Gives you a list of what to look for in the painting. Hides little things you wouldn't see unless you looked hard. Jim Hansel is virtually blind and paints unbievable scenes He is a little less detailed than Norlein but fantastic for being almost blind

 

[Chuz Life]

Many artists in my family, all of ours are home made paintings.

 

[Lumpy 1]

We seem to have a lot of artists in the family and my darlin wife themes rooms, hallways and bathrooms.

Me .. I own the garage ..

 

[lg325]

No, the house I live in now came with paintings so I left them on the walls. There by Jackie.

 

[Seymour Flops]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

What do you have, and if your walls need something to brighten them up, liven them up, have you thought about adding some culture and color to them ? I really wonder if people think much about what is on the walls of their house, that they see every day.

Funny you asked.

Growing up my family had few pictures on the wall, but both sets of my grandparents had walls filled with prints and family photos. I noticed that when I got old enough that my same-age friends had family homes, they all had pictures on nearly every wall. Tose pictures seemed like a lot of trouble. In college, I made the mistake of letting my girlfriend move in with me, and she brought/bought pictures to fill the walls of "our" apartment. Seemed like a lot of trouble for nothing.

Somehow, among all the other ways we are compatible, Mrs. Flops has no interest in pictures on the wall. We got a large painting of a sailboat for a wedding gift, and dutifully hung it up, only to ditch it the first time we moved. Later our grown son got us a print of Mrs. Flops and me as Napoleon and his wife. We hung it high above our bar until one day I opened the front door during a thunderstorm while Mrs. F. had the backdoor open watching the lightning and the wind blew it off and it broke.

Just took a walk around to verify. Nope, not one damn picture on any wall!

 

[skye]

I have big vintage photos, all framed and with glass, of Paris in the 20s, several prints and one big painting that my Dad did, he painted beautifully, he is gone now.


I don't need more paintings.

 

[JGalt]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

What do you have, and if your walls need something to brighten them up, liven them up, have you thought about adding some culture and color to them ? I really wonder if people think much about what is on the walls of their house, that they see every day.

Well now that you mentioned it...

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I used to paint, do ceramics, sew, knit, macrame, and anything that caught my interest. I would still be doing ceramics, but all the greenware shops shut down long ago, and its gotten too expensive anyway.

My walls are bare, except for one picture I found on the internet. I love this picture so much, I had it printed on canvas and made into a hanging photo. It is the only picture I have on my wall.

 

[Muhammed]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

What do you have, and if your walls need something to brighten them up, liven them up, have you thought about adding some culture and color to them ? I really wonder if people think much about what is on the walls of their house, that they see every day.

Right now there's 7 guitars on my living room walls. 4 electric guitars, a bass, a fretless bass and a 5 string bass. And a plasma screen TV.

 

[protectionist]

Right now there's 7 guitars on my living room walls. 4 electric guitars, a bass, a fretless bass and a 5 string bass. And a plasma screen TV.

Those guitars on your walls could be put in a guitar rack (doesn't take much space), and your walls would be free for some nice colorful paintngs.

 

[protectionist]

I used to paint, do ceramics, sew, knit, macrame, and anything that caught my interest. I would still be doing ceramics, but all the greenware shops shut down long ago, and its gotten too expensive anyway.

My walls are bare, except for one picture I found on the internet. I love this picture so much, I had it printed on canvas and made into a hanging photo. It is the only picture I have on my wall.

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Nice!

 

[protectionist]

Well now that you mentioned it...

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Only question is how were you able to post these pictures ?

I cannoit copy/paste, and my whole formatting line is shut down (Bold, Italics, etc)
Contacted USMB - zero reply. Second time this happened.

PS - looks like you wont be without light, if the power goes out.

 

[Muhammed]

Those guitars on your walls could be put in a guitar rack (doesn't take much space), and your walls would be free for some nice colorful paintngs.

I'm sick of guitar racks cluttering up the place.

 

[Winco]

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

I got ONE Painting.

Arnold Palmer.

 

[Southern Dad]

We used to have family photos on the walls, but over the years, we have replaced those going digital. The wall mounted television just displays a random collection of photos.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

My living room has pictures, but I believe that they came from the home interior company. My bedroom walls are covered in country music posters, two Dale Earnhardt posters, one Dale Jarrett poster, and four Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen posters.

God bless you and the girls and Dale Jarrett always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of the Olsen twins)

P.S. I'll be 44 at the end of June and I'll never take down what I have on my bedroom walls, especially my Dale Earnhardt pictures. He may be gone in real life, but he will forever have a presence at my address and so will Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys, Billy Joe Royal, Hal Ketchum, Toby Keith, and Joe Diffie.

 

[toobfreak]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

I'm probably a bit of the exception in that most of the art in my house is of my own creation. I'm capable of creating art in most any medium.

 

[The Duke]

As we drive around out towns/cities, we see thousands of houses & apartment buildings. I sometimes wonder what is on the walls of all those houses. Do they have original paintings, cheaper prints of paintings, or maybe just thousands of square feet of boring, blank walls.

Does your house have paintings on its walls ? Or maybe some other things hanging there. A guitar, mandolin, violin ? Baseball caps ?

What do you have, and if your walls need something to brighten them up, liven them up, have you thought about adding some culture and color to them ? I really wonder if people think much about what is on the walls of their house, that they see every day.

I have a lot of old, vintage original paintings, mostly from Europe.
Not on my walls, one was for years, some German 2-story house.
Washington's Prayer at Valley Forge, Jesus, and The Lord's Prayer is what I have now.
Those are all prints.
I got trivets..a whole wall full of trivets.
You wanna keep a hot pot off the counter? Gotcha covered.

 

[JGalt]

Only question is how were you able to post these pictures ?

I cannoit copy/paste, and my whole formatting line is shut down (Bold, Italics, etc)
Contacted USMB - zero reply. Second time this happened.

PS - looks like you wont be without light, if the power goes out.

All you have to do is click the "insert image" button at the top of your post...