For a lot of years, from about age 27 or 28 until my early 40s, my main mode of decorating my apartment was movie posters.

Most of them were the regular poster size known as "one sheets," which measure 27 inches by 41 inches and were affixed to my walls by push pins. It was sort of a glorified college dorm-room look. I decorated my apartments the way a lot of single men did, although fairly light on the cheesecake photos and centerfolds.

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When I married Nicole, though, I had to be a grownup when it came to decorations. We had lovely prints on the walls, and there was no place anywhere for movie posters.

A couple of years ago, though, I discovered these wonderful little 11x17 framed movie posters on Amazon. Since I knew I was going to have one room to decorate in our retirement home, I started looking at them. I've got 12 of them on the walls now, and my only disappointment is that my two favorite movies -- "Love Actually" and "Animal House" -- aren't available.

What I really enjoy is that I've found a couple of posters of old favorites of mine that aren't even available on DVD. "3 in the Attic" is one of them, although I do have a bootleg DVD of it. I also have one of "The Strawberry Statement," which isn't available on DVD but which I got off Amazon's Video on Demand.

The one I really like is the one under "3 in the Attic." It's the French version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," and it translates as "The Silence and the Shadows."

I like the posters a lot. They have a nice, clean feel to them and they look good on the wall with all my sports memorabilia and family photos. I have two more coming, which should just about fill up the last empty spots on my walls.

My one little room is very different from the sparse way my lovely wife likes to decorate the house, but almost every direction I turn, almost everything I see on the walls, makes me happy.

That's worth a lot.