interior decorating for straight guys
My house is approaching the state of being, as Kris would put it, "dialed in". That is, all the long wires that would typically be looped over the chandelier and tied to doorknobs and stuff to route them from the bedroom to the hub in the water heater closet or whatever are all nailed to the wall with line brackets, all my furniture is assembled and pretty much where it'll stay until I move again, and all the food is in the kitchen, in those little food closet things.

What's not done is art-hanging. I've never gone to an art store and purchased art, so all my art is sort of incidental. Gifts from folks and what not. Unfortunately, most of it doesn't really go with my house aesthetic, which is dark and future-fierce. There's my mom's watercolors, which are all pictures of Hawaiian mountains. There's my old posters which seem kind of too college dorm-y to live with me anymore, and then there's the picture of a Chinese dragon that my mom commissioned one of her art friends to draw for me for christmas one year.

Now, that one's cool and all, but the guy who drew it is normally a tattoo artist. He's a fabulous tattoo artist, but if you look at the drawing up close, it becomes evident that it is drawn in ballpoint pen. Ah well. At least it's dark-looking. Perhaps I will hang it in my fashionably doomed living room.

There's also the top hat which I inherited from Dad, and I guess it's the one he got married to mom in or something. I just stuck it on top of my bookshelf, where it gives the room a kind of gothic/penguiny vibe.

Kris suggested I stick it on a glass head, but then we're back in a college dorm again.