What photos / prints do you have on your walls?

[hollyblueivy]

Do you have family photos up on your walls? We have some small photos in frames but none on the wall. Do you update them often? Are they professionally done or how do you choose which photos to have printed for display?

Or do you use other prints / artworks and how do you choose.

I'm rubbish with colours and interior design but would like to make our home look more homely.

I have a photo of the dog, a mirror, an antique sign, two wall art photos I took when the kids were little, a colorful frog, a picture my aunt drew, a family painting and a family photo.

A real mix - and I love it

No. Well, one of us when DS was a baby. We have oil paintings, prints, a couple of linocuts, a couple of drawings by friends, some botanical watercolours we got at an auction, but lots of the walls are bookshelves.

If you’re interested in art for your walls, have a look at galleries near you, or cafés that display art by local artists, or degree shows at an art school near you.

Photos of the kids ... the Venture ones which were so popular 15 years ago...and I still love them. Photos I have taken (as it's one of my hobbies).. all candid shots, absolutely no school photos
Two 'paint by numbers' of my pets on the stair walls, and our wedding pic.
Various large prints ( multi coloured zebras, a hare, some owls|) and a HUGE map of the world which I love and fills one wall of the living room. Nothing is 'posh' art, but everything has some meaning for me .

Living room - a professional shot when DD was 5 month on the wall plus 3 others on shelves.
Dining room - multi photo frame with photos from recent (in the last 3 years) holidays.
Hallway - one photo from a holiday in Thailand and two more mulit photo frames with photos from all of us, one downstairs, one upstairs. These two stay.

We bought lots of frames cheat at an auction and charity shops. We sprayed them all the same colour and printed pictures out on our printer at home. Set behind glass they look great, all mounted using 3m tape the same distance apart. We added some frames from Ikea, deeper to take personal things like baby socks or a toy car to mix it up and add some colour (why do so many homes look like B&W photo's these days with grey walls, furniture and carpets?).

You should make your home work for you. Make it personal, add things to make you smile.

We have two prints in the sitting room: an abstract harbour and a tongue in cheek phrase that refers to the place where I grew up.

In my office I have music memorabilia (set lists, gig posters, photos), plus a collection of lanyards from gigs and festivals. Oh, and a big board with a load of art postcards from galleries and museums.

Other than that, we have books. Lots of books.

I have:

Bedroom: three ceramic hare wall hangings in my bedroom by a friend who is a ceramicist as well as an ink portrait of Laugharne castle done by my mum.

Hallway: two hand drawn pen cartoons of a cat and a dog by this amazing artist who sells at Greenwich Market (and whose name I have completely forgotten for the moment, thank you perimenopause).

Lounge: large poster of shipwrecks of the Falkland Islands - it's a print but signed by the artist - and a little painted image of a little cottage by the sea that I was given for Christmas by a colleague last year who did it herself.

I like to have things where I know who did them - hence why I will never own a Picasso! I've got fair few other bits in my spare room that aren't up yet because I haven't decided where to put them, but they are also artistic items created by people I know or have met. It makes me so happy when I take the time to look at them properly, plus it's lovely when people come to my house and say: "Oh where did you get that?" and I can talk to them about the provenance.

Sitting room, I have three photos of us taken when DS was 6 months, a photo of us whale watching on holiday, a photo of us at my nieces wedding and one of DS and his GF. A photo of a beach in Wales and then one taken of us in silhouette from a distance under Aura Borealis.

In the kitchen I have 3 abstract paintings on canvas of the sea that are a set. Three small original prints of the beach and a photo of DH and I drinking champagne sat on top of a very high hill in the Peak District.

In the hall, a photo of my hometown. Then some prints of the sea and a reproduction of a 1920’’s railway poster.

In my bedroom I have a huge scroll painting of peonies that DH bought me in China when on a business trip.

I have an original painting of a windswept tree I bought last year for the sitting room but I need to get it framed. I also need to get part of a stained glass window framed

We’ve got a mix of framed family photos, a couple of vintage concert posters, and a rotating selection of travel shots on a digital frame from nixplay.com. It’s handy as I can update it straight from my phone, and it saves me from printing loads of pictures all the time. The kids love spotting themselves in old holiday snaps when they pop up.

In the dining room with have fish pictures by an artist who specialises in them. In my bedroom I have one of his puffin prints

Some photos of DS's, but overall not many