Whats The Oddest Decoration(s) You Have In Your House?

[AndyC]

Be kind.  My mother painted it years ago. 

The Sheltie looks like my dog. Even has one ear up and the other slightly bent.


I suppose if we're talking about decorations, I can't include the weird stuff that just happens to be sitting in view. I've got two different electronic projects going on in front of the TV, with two tables full of tools and parts.

As for things that are meant to be seen, there are the full-sized, plaqued posters for Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gone with the Wind, and the matted and framed black-and-white movie stills of Jimmy Stewart, Don Knotts (as the Love God), and Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland (both in top hats and mutton chops).

I've got a large framed set of 16mm film reels in various sizes, wound with an actual copy of "I Am Joe's Spine," a school film narrated by Burgess Meredith (wish I could play it). The reels are in a deep, glass-covered frame, on a background of red velvet, with a replica film slate and assorted b-movie stills mounted in an oversized strip of film made of black cardboard. Made it myself a few years ago. It's about the same height and width as the movie posters.

There is, of course, also the full-sized arcade machine in the dining room, with a full-sized dalek stenciled on one side, and the Doctor Who diamond logo on the other. Another one of my projects.

I've got copies of three computer ads from magazines in the early 80s, reduced and framed together. Shatner endorsing the Commodore VIC-20, Bill Cosby for Texas Instruments, and Isaac Asimov for the TRS-80.

I've reprinted and framed a few of my more interesting news photos. Firemen silhouetted against a burning barn, framed with a shot of Mennonites rebuilding it the following week. A thoroughly demolished minivan on the highway, with police and firemen in the foreground, and an air ambulance lifting off behind it. Three shots of a funnel cloud forming behind spectators at a tractor pull.

And we have an entire magnetic blackboard wall in the kitchen.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I have my mancave walls covered with frames of Indian arrowheads I have found.

I have quite a few myself, but not to the degee you do.  I used to live along the Muscenetcong river in Asbury, NJ (Hunterdon County) and it was a hotbed of Lenni Lenape artifacts.  I remember finding many things there.

When we first moved there in 1975, I found a hide scraper chipped out or red flint as I dug up the garden bed for my mom.  Other additional finds include a few speartips and arrowheads with that "shoulder notch" so unique to the Eastern Woodlands and the Algonquin speakers that made up the majority of the area, from Maine to the Virginias.

It's so cool that we still have traces of the original peoples of North America right under our feet, and even cooler that many still practice the art of flint knapping and fletching to this day!

[The Burgomaster]

Nothing really odd.  I have a piece of abstract art hanging on the wall behind my bar.  My wife bought it in Brazil.  It consists of 6 separate abstractly painted pieces (one huge center piece, two rectangular pieces, and 3 square pieces).  You can arrange the pieces any way you want.  I'm proud of this because I used a laser-level, rulers, and tape measures to center it perfectly between two windows and make sure the 5 smaller pieces are equally spaced from the large center piece and/or each other.  It took me awhile to do the measuring and leveling, but I felt really good that I didn't screw it up.

[Flick James]

I decorate the house with something unique from all of my victims. It's hard to pick out which is the oddest, though.

[The Burgomaster]

I decorate the house with something unique from all of my victims. It's hard to pick out which is the oddest, though.

Probably the pelvis from the Siamese twins who were joined at the hip.  But I'm just guessing . . .

[ghouck]

I decorate the house with something unique from all of my victims. It's hard to pick out which is the oddest, though.

Probably the pelvis from the Siamese twins who were joined at the hip.  But I'm just guessing . . .

Or from the man with the five penises. You know his condoms fit like a glove. .

[Flick James]

I decorate the house with something unique from all of my victims. It's hard to pick out which is the oddest, though.

Probably the pelvis from the Siamese twins who were joined at the hip.  But I'm just guessing . . .

Or from the man with the five penises. You know his condoms fit like a glove. .

I WISH I had victims that interesting.

[Flangepart]

And 8 inch 1954 Godzilla standing behind a .50 cal Browning MG.
An a 10 inch Gamera behind a .30 M1917 Browning MG.
I gave Godzilla the .50 since Gamera can fly.

I love finding the right toys to go together!