I have a slanted wall (or ceiling, I'm never entirely certain which it is). When I was in junior high, I thought it looked really bare, and I covered the wall/ceiling with Christian music posters and pictures from magazines. At some point I realized how tacky it looked and removed all the paper, but I felt it needed some sort or decoration or definition. That's when I put up my first generation of lights. They were multicolored Christmas lights on green wire. I took apart a silk flower lei, cut the holes in the center a little bigger and put a flower over each light. I really liked them. They would be really cute in a bright, beach themed room, but they didn't go with my room, especially as I got older and added more decor- which took a romantic turn with burgandy, mauve, ivory, and warm brown (the colors in my bedspread and pillows), plus a little black and pewter. For my second generation of lights, I started with a string of clear lights on white wire. I got a pack of clear disposable plastic cups, 8 ounce size I think, but I shortened them to about half their original size, and cut a hole in the bottom of each cup that fit snugly over the lights. Then the fun part! Actually, it turned out to be the really long part. Ribbon doesn't wrap around a conical shape very well, so I cut lots of little pieces and wrapped them vertically or diagonally around the cups, overlapping the ribbon more at the small end of the cup. I covered all the ugly cut ends with one more ribbon on each border. With wider ribbons, I just pinched the excess ribbon out of the way at intervals and glued it down.
I have lots of knick-knacks and doodads. A lamp in the right size with the right colors was the hardest thing ever to find. My sister discovered this one at Garden Ridge and gave it to me for Christmas. It's perfect.
My space doubles as my bedroom and my sewing and design studio. This bulletin board is where I stick my inspiration (and any paper that I find floating around in my room. I make a list for everything and this is usually where all those end up). I got a cheap-o picture frame at the charity store (which should have cost less than it did), spray painted it a modern gold (that turned out to be more expensive than I thought it would be too) and sealed it. Rather than buy a mounted corkboard, I got a roll of cork at the craft store and cut it to size. Then I cemented the cork to a thick layer of corrugated cardboard, weighed it down as it dried, and tried not let impatience get the better of me. The cork and cardboard together were thicker than the space in the frame, so I had to glue it to the frame too. A lot of work it was, but it's so much nicer than a basic corkboard.
There are exciting changes coming to my room soon (on the sewing side of things) so I don't think the room will look like this much longer.
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