Sensible Apartment Furnishings

[DQ12]

So I'm moving into a new place next semester where I'll probably stay for the next two years and I want it to feel less like a dumbass college apartment and more of a tastefully mid-twenties guy's place.  I'm thinking about buying some lamps and ditching the bare white walls. 

I want to accrue some cool maybe old-timey maps of all the places I've lived (joco map, riley county map, map of kansas, map of champaign, maybe even map of peoria??). 

What are some sensible decorations?

[Cire]

find a Kohls and buy some cheap "art"

[scottwildcat]

go buy old classic vinyl of some albums you like and frame them.

[Pete]

Make the art yourself.  OR, hire a monkey to do it.  For as little as $250 you can get this rough ridin' monkey's original art and hang it on your walls.

http://www.savethechimps.org/original-chimpanzee-art

You will be the toast of Mideastern IL.

[scottwildcat]

Make the art yourself.  OR, hire a monkey to do it.  For as little as $250 you can get this rough ridin' monkey's original art and hang it on your walls.

http://www.savethechimps.org/original-chimpanzee-art

You will be the toast of Mideastern IL.

[CHONGS]

You've never lived in Champaign you fraud.

[DQ12]

You've never lived in Champaign you fraud.

by the time i buy the stuff i will have

[michigancat]

Ikea

[CHONGS]

You've never lived in Champaign you fraud.

by the time i buy the stuff i will have

[CHONGS]

CB2

[DQ12]

Make the art yourself.  OR, hire a monkey to do it.  For as little as $250 you can get this rough ridin' monkey's original art and hang it on your walls.

http://www.savethechimps.org/original-chimpanzee-art

You will be the toast of Mideastern IL.

250 bucks for monkey paintings?  seems too good to be true.

[Pete]

Make the art yourself.  OR, hire a monkey to do it.  For as little as $250 you can get this rough ridin' monkey's original art and hang it on your walls.

http://www.savethechimps.org/original-chimpanzee-art

You will be the toast of Mideastern IL.

250 bucks for monkey paintings?  seems too good to be true.

Don't feel guilty about exploiting a rough ridin' monkey.  Just add some other "socially conscious" art to make up for it.

[Pete]

Here, this one's on the house.

[CNS]

Google image
Print
Frame

You will be surprised how many really good pics you can save that aren't tagged or watermarked.

I saw a pic competiotion on nat geo (or something). all pics were amazing. All pics were large high res.  All pics were not protected and able to be dl'ed.  Not one had a tag on it.  I have two framed in my main bath right now.

[Pete]

Google image
Print
Frame

You will be surprised how many really good pics you can save that aren't tagged or watermarked.

I saw a pic competiotion on nat geo (or something). all pics were amazing. All pics were large high res.  All pics were not protected and able to be dl'ed.  Not one had a tag on it.  I have two framed in my main bath right now.

are they safe for work?

[CNS]

Yes. 

[DQ12]

i assume you'd just print them out at a kinkos and then pay for framing?

[CNS]

i assume you'd just print them out at a kinkos and then pay for framing?

Even easier

Save file
Send to snapfish or kodak.com
Wait for mail in like two days

Go Michaels or some other craft store. Their frames are always on sale.

Open back of frame
Put pic in
Hang on wall

If you like boarder and stuff, you can buy a cutter for like $40 and the boarder stuff for basically nothing then diy super easy.

[CNS]

Also, snapfish is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) cheap.  Like $2 for a 5x7 including shipping.

[CNS]

If you like paintings, you can find some dece stuff on ebay.  Lots of absolute crap to sift through, but some dece stuff too.  Some good knock offs and some good originals too.  I put up three large original oils in my office that I like for something like $150 total plus about $45 ea to have stretched.

[Pete]

If you like paintings, you can find some dece stuff on ebay.  Lots of absolute crap to sift through, but some dece stuff too.  Some good knock offs and some good originals too.  I put up three large original oils in my office that I like for something like $150 total plus about $45 ea to have stretched.

Monkey made, or just human.

[DQ12]

not super into paintings. 

really trying to go with the map theme.  love maps.

[CNS]

If you like paintings, you can find some dece stuff on ebay.  Lots of absolute crap to sift through, but some dece stuff too.  Some good knock offs and some good originals too.  I put up three large original oils in my office that I like for something like $150 total plus about $45 ea to have stretched.

Monkey made, or just human.

Both!

[DQ12]

also great call re. snapfish.  already got a good quality gall-peters projection poster size comin' my way for 6 bucks!

[bones129]

Years ago, the Manhattan Public Library actually allowed patrons to check out "art work," which consisted of cheaply-framed reproductions of classic pieces (Van Gogh, Monet, etc.) Knew a guy who adorned his apartment with those things. Looked pretty lame. Damned things were shiny.

One night, during a primo binge session with his buds, one of us shook up an unopened beer can, tossed it to him, he opened it and it sprayed all over one of the library works. He took a rag and cleaned it right off. Don't know what the surface was, but no worse for the wear.

Something to consider if binging is frequent in your new place?