Jon22: The Website of Jonathan Dobres

This is what two years of HGTV will do to you. The minute I walked into my new bedroom, phrases like accent wall and focal point began to run through my head. In lieu of creating a proper headboard for my bed, which is still just a box spring on a bed frame, I decided to unify my various posters and a few choice photographs into what the more design-oriented among you might call a treatment. Those of you who know me probably also know that I’m about as good with a hammer as a drunk lobster. On an acid trip. A bad one. So you may well be asking, “Jon, was there Photoshop involved here?” And I would answer, “Oh, you bet there was.”

My original plan was to simply measure everything from nail to nail. In practice, this doesn’t work so well. If you don’t have a level, the longer the distance you measure, the more likely it is that you’ll accumulate errors in the measurement. I ended up measuring from the edges of frames whenever possible, which turned out to be much more accurate.

For those interested, the things on the wall are:

1. A Silent Giants poster for Bon Iver. The Silent Giants rock. They produce consistently spectacular work and they’re a real class act to boot. When the first poster I ordered got lost in the mail, they sent me a second copy, no questions asked.
2. “FrequenCity” by Dan Grzeca, via Threadless Prints.
3. A print of “The Broodax Imperiate,” received as a gift from the Tall One, previously mentioned when I had to take a pair of scissors to it.
4. A photograph of the Gnome and I (also pictured here) taken back when we were in high school, at the beginning of frigging time.
5. A photograph of my beloved coworkers from the hospital.

Thus the treatment is complete. My next project? Painting over that wall. You may have noticed that it is hideous. I am taking suggestions for colors.