In which Joel attempts interior decoration…

The few people who visit the Secret Lair immediately notice a major difference between the two rooms: The main room looks improvised and utilitarian, because it is. It was made from salvaged and often unconventional materials by someone who barely knew what he was doing and didn’t really care what it looked like. The kitchen cabinets were built until they were functional and never finished. Nothing is painted. There’s no corner trim anywhere. But the bedroom addition was constructed of new and more conventional materials: Sticks and drywall. It has trim, and everything is painted.

So unlike the cabin, which I found visually interesting from the start and never gave much thought to decorating – though some decoration did sort of evolve over the years…

…the bedroom is just a plain drywall box. It needed style to be consciously added, and I don’t really do that. So from the time I called it done to this, it remained a drywall box.

Finally decided the quickest way to decorate it in a way that wouldn’t grate on my nerves was to do what teenagers do to their bedrooms*: Posters.

So a couple of months ago I sent away for the first of a planned collection of posters from Forgotten Weapons swag. There’s a “1919 Secret Weapons” series I have coming, but I started with this one because I think it’s funny. The world doesn’t have enough rifle-related humor…

I actually got the poster three weeks ago, the last time Landlady was up. But the frame I ordered from Amazon didn’t make the deadline date, so it only came yesterday. Not exactly what I was going for, but it works fine and came with hanging hardware so I didn’t have to make a big production of getting it on the wall.

“Neato, huh?” he said, munching on a Tide pod.

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*Or did when I was a teenager. For all I know, these days they use flamethrowers or paint sprayers.