Steampunk in the home
Not much steampunk, but I try and decorate a bit old-fashioned and thought you might find some of these.. inspirational? 
Some pictures of my desk, which I don't use an awful lot (usually with my laptop on the couch) -- which is why it's so organized!
Here's a globe a bought about two months ago. They had a huge version of thing which cost more than 100 euro. This one was relatively cheap.
And I clock I got for my birthday last year from friends.
Please do share your own steampunkian, Victorian, or just generally old-fashioned... stuff.
Some pictures of my desk, which I don't use an awful lot (usually with my laptop on the couch) -- which is why it's so organized!
Here's a globe a bought about two months ago. They had a huge version of thing which cost more than 100 euro. This one was relatively cheap.
And I clock I got for my birthday last year from friends.
Please do share your own steampunkian, Victorian, or just generally old-fashioned... stuff.
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Hmm, ought to go looking around the antique shops for some Magnet tomorrow, to celebrate 100 years! it started on the 25th of Feb 1908
I'm not exactly sure *what* they are. Obviously they seem like posters, but they're actually some sort of flexible metal, which, I suppose, makes it possible to advertise them outside in dismal weathers.
Of course I chose to do no such thing and instead they decorate my kitchen now. I found them at a local antiques shop which sells mostly merchandise of low quality and has a most unappealing odor to it. These, to the contrary, were a most fortunate find indeed!
I have been meaning to take pictures of the room I recently redecorated. I really should do that.
Pics of our place coming soon.
Neb
I will try and remind myself to find out the clock's brand, perhaps that might be of help. (I'm currently not at home.)
Well, not entirely, perhaps -- I dont' like the chair to the left.
I agree about the chair though. It's too stripe-y.
Closer views are available on the Flickr tagset - along with some pictures of the taxidermy kit, also posted over in the projects thread.
The walls are a little bare at the moment, but I'm getting ready to move, so everything will be uprooted and rearranged anyway. The new house promises to have some very steam/dieselpunk areas in it, so I'll document that as well.
That looks like it would be much more at home in such a living room!
- Window and sill: I think I allready posted a pic of the telephone some time ago.
- Close up of the important things.
- Book Case.
- Wall with Picture of the Royal Artillerey and african mask. His name is terrence.
- Swords and umbrellas, oh, and the deckchair; essential summer Pimms drinking equipment.
- My clock in the hallway.
Is that a portrait of General Montgomery there on top of your bookcase?
In spite of being a great Indiana Jones-fan, somehow a portrait of Ford strikes me as rather too "popular" for a steampunk enthusiast.
We do have this really cool fully operational Remington typewriter
My grandmother on my father's side bought it for him secondhand for his graduation from university, and when I was 18 and he retired he put it up in the attic. From which I recently moved it to my dinky little duplex flat
It's a family heirloom and I'm never ever getting rid of it
I'm not the only one that has put a typewriter in their house as a design element, my friend Krikke (who is not into any type of 'punk) has put his Remington on display as well. It's more recent than mine though.
Sadly I don't know the years of build of either models.
Next thing I want to get for the house is a gramophone, they sell a lot of them on ebay, but I think I rather get one on a flea market like I did the last time I got my hands on one.
Back in the late nineties I got a real antique one that was dirty and broken for 100 old Belgian francs (which is about € 2,5ish) and a friend of mine repaired it for me. But because it was sitting around my dad sold it (for a LOT more then I paid for it I can assure you) and put the money in my savings account.
I'm still sulking about that.
Oh and a nice antique look globe wouldn't go amiss either.
I'm still trying to convince Bert to let me paint the wooden chairs in the house in sakura and gear pattern, but so far I'm not having any luck.
I do recommend you get a turntable. I have one myself and mostly listen to LPs--music just seems so much more real when listen from an LP compared to a CD.
As is Krikke of his.
I'd like to do a photoshoot once using both machines, but I need to work on the possibilities of that some more first
(If I ever get around to it, I shall make sure to share results here!)
I have a turn-table, but it's very 80ties and gigantic, so it's still residing at my parent's house. When I still lived there I used it all the time. Unless for music that wasn't released on that medium.
I would invest in a smaller one, but I really lack the room to put it, getting that would mean no gramophone, and I really have my heart set on one.
I just got this print at a shop near Boston, Lincs, and put it in a simple heavy-looking wood frame, should add a certain something to me' quarters.
(Expo is a shop that sells gadgets, posters and postcards, etc)
The gears (bar the one which has the hands attached to it), all turn, which is really cool
Sadly they're very pricey. There was a smaller sized version of the first ones too, but that was still super expensive