For those (like me) that missed the story of Charlie Kratzer's Sharpie decor the first time around, the interactive panorama is well worth the click-through. I wonder if he's completed more rooms since then! From the Lexington Herald-Leader:
Says Kratzer, 53, the associate general counsel for Lexmark: "People are amazed that with something as simple and inexpensive as a Sharpie, you can decorate a whole basement."
How did this Sharpie world start? With a single swipe of the marker.
Kratzer started mid-wall, with the Salon by Picasso. Then he thought, well, taking a design out to the edge of the wall wouldn't be overwhelming.
Then the rest of the basement flared off that first wall.Kratzer's basement suggests that the great cultural influences wandered out of college humanities class – here a Churchill for eloquence during harsh times, a Joan Crawford for cinematic vampiness, Holmes and Poirot for great literary characterization – and set up shop together in the carefully hand-drawn markings of an educated imagination come to life.
Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep company with them while he uses the pool table.
"Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie"
