An Embarassing Display

This is our nook in the living room. What a lovely craftsman detail, you may be thinking. Yes, yes it is. It’s also a lot of stinking pressure.

Those would be my birthday cards. While I love birthdays and have been known to stretch them out as long as possible, my birthday was SIX MONTHS AGO. My cards are still sitting there, partly because they are pretty and are not in the way, but mostly because we can’t for the life of us decide what the hell to put there.

We definitely want some piece of art, but what? It needs to fill the space and be attractive, but it also can’t be too loud or dominating, otherwise, it stops being the living room and starts being THE ROOM FOR DISPLAYING THE CARVED WOODEN STATUE GUY. You know what I mean? Because of it’s prominence, it’s also hard to just fill it with some lovely, culture appropriating piece of art from World Market or whatever, because we aren’t Buddhists, for instance.

We thought about putting in shelves and making it a bar, but again, do we want A BAR on constant display in our living room? With no cabinet or anything?

Any ideas would be appreciated. The birthday cards have to come down sometime.