Interiror Design question

[Doreen Peri]

I am in proud posession of the beatles textured walls recordings, the fouth B in the Bach, Beethoven, Brahms honorary membership and I am proud, also, though pride is not an advantageous sport and many will screw it to the wall which is why I am posting this to begin with, because art is a calling and I'm currently looking at drywall painted white, thinking every inch of it could be canvas. I am enamored with the six-panel doors. Each panel could be a portrait.

I'm posting this post because I'm wondering about the art in your physical surroundings.

Do you create floral arrangements? Do you write poetry on the walls with charcoal pencils? Do you decorate your diary with illustrations in the margins, colored by your intuitive design sense or do you hesitate to change your space or do you not think of anything like this at all?

I enjoy space change.

I travel from place to place. Life should be an assembly
of projects. Should, should be stricken from a wordlist.

You know what I did?

I got outa the shower and took my fingernails to loosen the paper and pulled streaks of unglued diagonal residue, threw it in the trash, then got myself a big bucket of mud, the wallboard kind, what's it called? I donno, but I put it on the spatula and created wall-sculpure, textured strips of paper below, then when it dried, I painted it, in between and around and below the crevices and it's really cool, 'cause the shadows hit the room a different way each and every time i enter it, most of the time.

Have you ever painted your walls with pencil? I want to take down every painting and print which is framed and store them away and take crayons and pastels and oils and acrylics and watercolor washes and pen and ink to illustrate the fact that i happened to be here in this particular space for just a moment, anyway.

You should see my bathroom. It's really cool!
Below, is a forest green semi-gloss with exposed striped burgandy and blue paper and above, is the texture, the wall-sculpture where you can see through to the geometric pattern of material below, all of it shadowed by indirect light. Three quarters of the wall space is finished in relief and although some previous occupant had a strange artistic penchant for odd interior decor enough to put chair railing in a room which houses a john, I am honored to inhabit the throne while imagining my future walls, decorated with fingerpaint or crayolas, varnished.

Have you turned your 3-D space into an artshow? If so, how? Did you scratch yours or hers or his initials into the cofffee table? Did you measure time with a yardstick, documenting the height of a child with a pen and date dug into paint?

[Dave The Dov]

For every open space in life it is some how filled by someone's creativity.
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[Arcadia]

hi doreen!
paint and draw the walls: only when I was 3 years old.
collage walls: when I was a teen

Now my small departamento walls are painted in light-cream-lemon-yellow (I had to fight with the painter during one morning because he didn´t like the color and he wanted to paint the walls in different colors...). I don´t have anything in the walls yet. I have a pastel made by a friend of mine (a glass with jazmines paraguayos floting in a turner-like sky), some old black & white old movie photos enmarcadas and a Van Gogh reproduction that maybe I will finally cling? in the walls.

arreglos florales: I only bought jazmines in the city. When I go to the country I always come with some vegetales and make something similar to arreglos florales.

I love to collect stones and branches of tress founded in the ground from different places and I put them everywhere. The forms and colors they could have are great.

[Artguy]

I have so much art hanging on the walls I don't know what colour the walls are....In my bathroom I have done a 7' x 10' ceramic mural made of smashed up tiles....it depicts a garden gone wild scene framed by 2 full height sunflowers on each side....a winding path of gold chipped glasstiles leads to a light fixture in the sun....

[mousey1]

I should.

These walls lack my flavour, my savour.

I am a stranger here.

I should make my mark.

I have one of my paintings up.....the rest are in the closet.......unfinished, like me.

I have a carving or three placed here and there, reminders I need to do better....I have a critical eye when it comes to me, never really pleased.

I have dreams,
I have I want tos,
This spring when the weather turns nice I'm turning that big stump in the back yard into a bear.
I want to turn that beautiful, gnarly bit of root I found into a fantastic table, it's been staring at me for three years begging me to work with it.

My life is full of half finished everythings
What a commentary

Yup, I should.

[mtmynd]

on the contrary, i imagine my/our space totally minimalist... just the bare basics - chair, sofa, table, lamp... a bare and empty canvas that I can see change within each and every day... without changing a thing. But it is all just a thought, a pssing thought that zips in and just as quickly zips out... in the meantime, I sit surrounded my memories, both good and bad, with some indifferent gathering the dust of the desert one centimeter a day, non-stop... how easy to keep clean the dream of pure minimalism... but that bland environment is so unlike what lies outdoors! Perhaps I should live in a teepee - one firepit, walls covered in rugs, arab-like, with cushions a'plenty strewn about - no chairs, no sofa, no table, no lamps - just candlelight and that firepit on chilly nights, smoke rising upwards thru the tents pinnacle escaping into the night sky... barely minimalist, fully laid back, I get distraught at having to bundle up and go outdoors to the outhouse to take a shhit... damn! things just aren't whatever we dream, despite our creativity... we must endure where ever we are, we must make best of what we have, we must regain our lost imaginings and throw out those that have gone stale in the tick-tock of time that is out to measure our worth, our path, our fulfillment and yes, even our clutter that follows us from room to room, from store to home, from home to the trash... where does it ever end?

o, well...

[Doreen Peri]

geezzzzzz.. i have to come back here and reply to you all individually 'cause these are some great responses .. thank you all... i'll be back tomorrow 'cause i'm old and tired... but i posted these earlier tonight elsewhere and since i had them handy, i'll post them here again.... y'know? we can decorate the space within and without our hearts or forget about doing any of that but the most important thing is the decoration of our interior design......

thanks for looking
(i used one of these images for the banner and screwed it up royally but i'll be back.... life should be a series of projects.... really.... i believe in this..... trust me on that... but be wary of the person who feels a need to say 'trust me'.... the cliche being why would anybody find a need to speak such crap, like by saying 'trust me,' it's a given or something... sure sign of a lyin' ass)


i think we should create art with every space we have and this is just a documentary 'cause i'm trying and i only have so much space to begin with


This is the former textured wallpaper which I tore off and left angled and odd-shaped strips in various places


Here's a shot of a wall in progress where you can see how I'm blending into the textured wallpaper which I left there, while sculpting the wall with the drywall mud.


Here's a shot of a bathroom corner.


This is the bathroom chairrail - who in their right mind puts chairrail in a bathroom? lol


Here's the bathroom in progress.

I'm hoping it looks like it's in an old house with plastered walls, but it's art, too, I hope.

[Artguy]

Perhaps you could dedicate one wall to Hunter and take a few shotgun blasts to it.....

[Doreen Peri]

oh yeah.... right... and drip some red paint all over the place.



Suicide is the most selfish act their is.

I feel ill.

[Dave The Dov]

Please don't say that dp. I had a cousin that I was close to and he comitted suicide and he was going through a hard time when he did it.
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[Doreen Peri]

That's what I'm saying, Dave!

Suicide is *never* a viable option!

I'm sorry you lost your cousin. I have lost a couple of friends that way, too.

I know people struggle and it's hard and sometimes they think it's the only way out, but it's NOT the only way out! See how you still hurt from your cousin's act?

That's why it was selfish of him. I wish he had gotten the help he needed and not resorted to that. I'm sooooo sorry, Dave! Truly!

I've spent half my day talking about this... I put everything else on hold. It's that important to me.

[stilltrucking]

to paint the day blue,
if I had a magic music machine I think some gospel music would work, yeah I heard the voice of pork chop say come un to me and rest




when push comes to shove it is just cheaper to keep on living,

[Dave The Dov]

doreen after it happened I now have live with it forever.
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[Doreen Peri]

when push comes to shove it is just cheaper to keep on living

Exactly!

doreen after it happened I now have live with it forever.

Yes, I know. That's so sad. That's why I made all the comments I made to the Hunter Thompson thread. It's not fair. It's not right. I'm sorry. (((hugs)))

[Dave The Dov]

That's okay doreen amazing how life works it's magic. BIG HUG right back to you my lovely!!!! Listening to "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" on cd in honor of Hunter S. Thompson!!!!
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