Over the past few weekends, Tess and I have been able to chip away at our ongoing apartment decorating project. Our south wall once looked like this, but now…ta da!

…and the detailed view:

Tess found some pretty cool vintage maps of the elevated lines of the NY subway system, San Francisco, and the world on this cool site called Kate’s Paperie. There was a cool map of Paris but she didn’t want to get it for fear of being a poser. I told it was okay since she had actually been to Paris. You can’t be a poser if you’ve been there, right? But she insisted that since she didn’t live in Paris, and she was only there for one day, she was indeed a poser. Whatever, Tess never actually lived in San Fran either — Daly City doesn’t count.

After arranging the frames, the wall still felt a bit empty. The following week, Tess saw some pictures of an apartment with a guitar hanging from a wall mount. We thought we’d give it a shot and I think it works. I did sort of like the guitar on a stand in the corner between the TV stand and the wall, but it does free it up for a thin floor lamp or something to complement the recessed lighting. We also thought even though the frames and guitar were different shades of brown, it provided some balance with the black vertical frame.

Now I was really happy about this next addition because it was one of the only things I saved from home (being The Bay) that I was actually able to put up in our place. My Swingers “cocktails first, questions later” poster has been relegated to my corner at work.

My 2046 poster still needs a home, though.