The answer for me is Yes. By which I mean: * walls are painted colors I like or wallpapered. Mostly we hired a guy for wallpaper, but I did the sections of my closet that are wallpapered * scattered around the house are David Goines prints. He was a commercial artist in San Francisco and they were gifted to me personally as a toddler by him and then framed for me by my parents as a high school graduation present. Because I am a nerd and it makes me happy, the North Face poster always goes on the northernmost wall in wherever we live. The Farmers Market and Ravenswood Winery prints are in the kitchen because food * we like maps, so we also have a map of supper clubs in the state in the kitchen * the kitchen also has art I made and local art that fit the color scheme * our fridge is not magnetic on the front for some stupid reason, so family photos are held on by stickers * the living room has two small pieces of art on the window wall - which has custom curtains we made- and a small cluster of a picture of the house just after it was built in 1905, two prints we bought locally that match the look and vibe, and the embroidery piece with our WiFi password on it * the library has a section on the wall for family photos, including a board with magnets for swapping out photos * the library also has the 3d wooden puzzle globe I made, a small antique globe we found, an architectural print, and fictional maps on the wall. We’ve got three now: from the Dragon Age games, the Zelda games, and the Tortall books * there’s also fake flower arrangements above some doors. We’ve got really high ceilings and I wanted Christmas boughs our first year here, so we put up hooks to keep things in place. Now there are seasonal arrangements every season - three years in and this is the first time we’ve had summer as opposed to just leaving spring up until Halloween. Next year they will evolve * my office the section behind me in video calls just has my framed diploma and a framed Hamilton quote (passionately smashing every expectation). The wall I’m facing, though, is a gallery wall - including a ceiling mounted rail system because that wall is just plaster over stone and it’s the only practical way to hang. The gallery wall has art made by a friend of mine, video game art, protest art, and art done by my spouse

We also have tiny statues on various lintels, small tapestries, poster prints I found in the garage (why was there a massive Flaming June print in the garage? No idea but I crocheted a frame and hung it anyway), a thing I accidentally won in a silent auction, a beautiful watercolor flower giclee I bought after I got my first raise at my current job, a picture of me as a kid, a portrait of my grandparents, and a bunch of the diamond paintings I do to relax and then frame myself. Oh, tiny metal 3d puzzles are also over various lintels because I do those a lot, too.

Other ways we decorate our walls are with better switch plate covers. Smooth white or almond plastic is boring, and with 2 minutes work it can look way cooler. We’ve got William morris prints and interesting metal and wood to blend with paneling (including one custom one that involved contacting the maker on Etsy) and fancy antique-looking nonsense. This is also super renter-friendly as long as you keep the old ones.

Some of this increases coziness, but a lot of it is just way more personalization because it makes us happy.

Oh! Especially the tiny magnet statues that work as hinge toppers. That’s not walls, I guess, but I have a tiny magnetic beehive arriving soon and I’m incredibly stoked.