I’ve always been very envious of artists that decorate their spaces. I remember visiting Industrial Light and Magic and seeing all the different statues that were on top of peoples desks. In The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch shows how he painted his childhood bedroom — even including painting an elevator on the wall. It used to make me sad that I would never be able to decorate the walls like that and really make it my own. But then I discovered a solution … magnets!
Originally I thought it would be really cool to use magnetic paint on the wall. But then I learned that magnetic paint is good for putting flexible magnetic images on the wall, but not for hanging anything up. So I thought, “How can I make my house into a magnetic bulletin board?” Then I realized how much of my house is made of metal.
The radiator is made of metal…
… as is the front door is made of metal which is a collection of pictures and maps …
Note at the top of the door is some remnants of our sign from the women’s march including Blake’s wonderful artwork of Donald Trump in the middle of the “O.”
Our window frames are made of metal…
… as are the many of the joints where the joints in the wall where the drywall comes together…
… so we can post awards right at wall corners…
… and school assignments.
On the fridge we built some really cool things using Magnaformers. We also use them to build some cool Platonic solids, Archimedean solids and Johnson solids (not pictured).
We use little superstrong neodymium magnets with clips to make sure that things stick.
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