what can i use for "dressing up" my kitchen/diner walls?

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have a new extension kitchen/diner...is fab! i'm so pleased with it, but it needs pictures or something...

have 2 large walls to dress in the dining room end....

kitchen is white painted units, wooden floor, white painted walls, and red/white gingham blind and red and white curtains covering 3 m wide bifold doors....oh, unvarnished pine battered table and chairs...
light fittings are aluminium/steel. as are fridge and cooker (well. in colour anyway!)

am very consious it mustn't look like a country cottage iykwim. i like shaker/retro/funky/different rather than modern and sort of "trendy" iykwim.

any advice/links/suggestions please?

collect loads of different wooden frames, charity shops, ikea etc, paint them all a slate grey or black, and cover a wall in frames pictures, black and white photos, kids drawings, anything

Big stick on dots in primary colours.

Or wall stickers like the ones here

I love the bird cage ones and the ones of people jumping around in the bright colours.

oooh. liking both those ideas.

ta!

Huge slab of slate you can chalk on

cool! like a big blackboard?

i'm no better off now...too many ideas to consider!

On our big wall we have a huge pinboard, some stickers and a huge blackboard.

We have a big map of the world on the kitchen wall, at DD height.

Optician's chart.

Film posters.

Framed pics of plays you've seen, or album covers or books.

I would like an orangutan picture.

Oh big child-level map is good. We have one in our hallway. Well three actually. We like maps

Our map has recently replaced a Hello Kitty alphabet poster that I grew desperate about DD outgrew

love overmydeadbody's idea

thanks again everyone.

i have a huge childrens map which would look lovely...was going to put it in my new playroom...would be nice in the kitchen though....like this but £6 from costco!)

been looking at this site too and drooling liking lots of their pics.