Alternative Dark/Light/Grey Academia room decor
- Calligraphy scrolls with ancient proverbs on them; you get a new one every year at Lunar New Years’.
- Little clay urns with beaks, meant to have been crude oil lamps. Or are crude oil lamps. Did you make them yourself? Maybe.
- Batik sheets and Persian rugs; pillows filled with kapok.
- Old rattan chairs with green cushions, or ‘director’s’ chairs.
- A replica of the bust of Nefertiti, or a mini Venus of Willendorf.
- Fossil specimens scattered all over, as paperweights on in mason jars.
- A pencil basket made from old newspapers that you recycled.
- A bunch of corks from different liquors from different events/occasions, hung on a beaded string nailed to the wall’ your version of a pennant/fairy lights.
- A wall tapestry, made from a traditional textile: Japanese indigo, Ghanaian kente...
- A copper water bottle
- Little tins of ‘home remedies’ : candied ginger for coughs and stomach aches, fennel seeds to freshen breath...
