My Space Room (image heavy) - Beyond Tiki

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Sun, Jun 4, 2006 3:35 PM In addition to my tiki room, I have been also working this year on creating a Space Themed Room. I thought I would share some pictures of how it has turned out, so far.... The walls of this room used to be white. I chose to paint it a color which matched the background of Shag's 'Wives with Knives' print, which is a focal point of the room. (there are no astronauts in the print, but the dancer figure is quite alien) I've placed a product called 'The Groove Tube' on my TV screen, which converts the TV image to giant blocky moving colored pixels I've thrifted a good collection of interesting globes over the years, which gives a planetary look to the room. I bought this full sized woman sculpture back in 1990. I painted her skin blue, and added a fez, to match the 'Wives With Knives' print, and to create a 3-D female alien presence in the room (she presides above the tv) From the ceiling hang a number of pop-art red-disced mobiles, which can be found at Ikea This space rocket themed 'Comet' sled was one of my best thriftscores ever - bought it for $10, I beleive A big step in creating this room was hanging the glass shelves, so I could display much of the space-themed stuff I already owned. More globes. The large one, second from the left is my largest globe (18" diameter), which is a lunar globe. There is a small sticker/plaque at the base, saying it is a NASA globe, from May of 1969 ... just two months before man walked on the moon. I found a sofa in the 90's with a neat spiral/space fabric... The room is partially lit by a pair of these lamps - the circular, Sputnik-y things revolve around the pole The coffee table is a giant natural piece of wood, its surface smoothed to a neat finish. It somehow fits with the rest of the room -- I wasn't going for a sterile, chrome, 2001/Star Trek/Star Wars space look, but a warmer, 1950's, reddish, surface of Mars look. The game on the right is 'Astro Launch' a space-age version of Trouble that came out in the 60's. The room is shared with my LP collection, part which is shown there. I never pass up a copy of Esquivel's 'Other World, Other Sounds' in the thrifts... a picture of JFK and Jacqueline, Blythe doll below them miscellaneous pictures of things elsewhere in the room... There are a few other neat space things scattered around, but that should give you the overall look and feel. Mai-tais taste pretty good in this room too! The space-age and Polynesian Pop heydays co-existed roughly in the same time period (late 50's, early 60's) so I feel that the space and tiki rooms in my home complement each other well. Vern [ Edited by: ikitnrev 2006-06-04 15:37 ]

In addition to my tiki room, I have been also working this year on creating a Space Themed Room. I thought I would share some pictures of how it has turned out, so far....

The walls of this room used to be white. I chose to paint it a color which matched the background of Shag's 'Wives with Knives' print, which is a focal point of the room. (there are no astronauts in the print, but the dancer figure is quite alien) I've placed a product called 'The Groove Tube' on my TV screen, which converts the TV image to giant blocky moving colored pixels

I've thrifted a good collection of interesting globes over the years, which gives a planetary look to the room.

I bought this full sized woman sculpture back in 1990. I painted her skin blue, and added a fez, to match the 'Wives With Knives' print, and to create a 3-D female alien presence in the room (she presides above the tv)

From the ceiling hang a number of pop-art red-disced mobiles, which can be found at Ikea

This space rocket themed 'Comet' sled was one of my best thriftscores ever - bought it for $10, I beleive

A big step in creating this room was hanging the glass shelves, so I could display much of the space-themed stuff I already owned.

More globes. The large one, second from the left is my largest globe (18" diameter), which is a lunar globe. There is a small sticker/plaque at the base, saying it is a NASA globe, from May of 1969 ... just two months before man walked on the moon.

I found a sofa in the 90's with a neat spiral/space fabric...

The room is partially lit by a pair of these lamps - the circular, Sputnik-y things revolve around the pole

The coffee table is a giant natural piece of wood, its surface smoothed to a neat finish. It somehow fits with the rest of the room -- I wasn't going for a sterile, chrome, 2001/Star Trek/Star Wars space look, but a warmer, 1950's, reddish, surface of Mars look. The game on the right is 'Astro Launch' a space-age version of Trouble that came out in the 60's.

The room is shared with my LP collection, part which is shown there. I never pass up a copy of Esquivel's 'Other World, Other Sounds' in the thrifts...

a picture of JFK and Jacqueline, Blythe doll below them

miscellaneous pictures of things elsewhere in the room...

There are a few other neat space things scattered around, but that should give you the overall look and feel.

Mai-tais taste pretty good in this room too! The space-age and Polynesian Pop heydays co-existed roughly in the same time period (late 50's, early 60's) so I feel that the space and tiki rooms in my home complement each other well.

Vern

[ Edited by: ikitnrev 2006-06-04 15:37 ]

Post #235863 by ikitnrev on Sun, Jun 4, 2006 3:35 PM