To think that hanging family photos/portraits on the wall is incredibly naff.

[squoosh]

Photos should be in frames and placed on a table or mantelpiece. I especially hate when said photos are blown up to A3 size or bigger, ick! The only time I allow the 'no photos on wall rule' to be relaxed is on the wall leading up a stairs, for some reason this is less offensive.

Art on your wall people not studio portraits of your cherubs!

(Sits down and awaits the hate)

YABU. I don't have a mantelpiece and I want my wedding pictures and pictures of my children up.

It's a bit naff but as long as it's not in my house it doesn't bother me.

My friend had about 14 professional photos done of her toddler and hung every single one of them in the same wall.

It looked odd and I'm sure a stranger would have been forgiven for thinking it was actually a shrine

squoosh You have what you like on your walls, and I'll have what I like on mine.

I must be pretty naff then - I have all sorts of family photos on walls.

I agree re it being okay up along the stairs

tis naff otherwise, especially when the photos look NOOOOTHING like you because they are over saturated and all whitey or soft focusey!

(don't have a matlepiece or a stairs , have a few photos in standing frames in our bedroom, but none on walls)

I agree with you squoosh.

Naffola especially those massive Venture ones with the white backgrounds and quirky poses. Boke.

Oh lord, much better on the walls than allthat mimsy-fied Victorian-esque clutter of wee frames all collecting dust and toppling over on occasional tables.

That said, a vgf of mine has a lifesize picture of her in her wedding dress going down the steps of a swimming pool so the hem of the frock is just getting wet. That obviously makes me a little bit vommity.

What's wrong with naff anyway? I'm not trying to win 'Cool House of the Year Award'....

Well Darts as long as you never take out citizenship in Squooshitania I suppose I'll have to allow you to hang what you like on your walls.

Worra, you shouldn't have told me that, I'm twitching knowing that someone has 14 professional photos of one toddler on one wall.

YABU. In the living room they're all in frames and on shelves/mantle. In my dining room though, the entire wall above the mantlepiece is family photos, smallish ones, all slightly different sizes and different frames, and all arranged so they fit together, but not in rows. I love it.

I don't think I'd mind pictures of my DD. I'm really funny about pictures of myself being around the place though. Is it just me or is having pictures of yourself everywhere just incredibly vain? Especially those posed portrait type ones. Maybe it's just because I hate having my picture taken.

Yes, it's naff, no two ways about it. I have one wall-hanging of PFB - just one, that's it, and I always cringe a litle bit inside when I look at it.

Only if a ?1930s Nancy Mitford book is your ultimate arbiter of good taste.

I have photos of the kids on the walls of the dining room. I really don't care that anyone thinks it's naff. I get a lot of pleasure out of looking at them whenever I'm in there.

Yabu.

Darts come and be a resident of "whogivesashitsville".

And don't start me on 'couples' portraits.

Wearing white shirts, blue jeans, sitting on the floor, back to back, chuckling joyfully, secure in the knowledge that an A3 studin photo of you and your beloved with bring a droplet of true beauty into this grey world.

(refuses to budge from grey world)

I agree with you. About other people's children. But mine are just so beautiful and lovely that pictures of them on my wall are indeed art. I can offer copies to those of you whose own progeny look naff.

Really trying not to rise to the bait on this one! YABU and you know you are!

my big issue with them is that the ones of adults are not nice natural holiday/family do pics, they're often silly over saturated/bouoir/trash the dress/make over ones where they look half their size and their face is washed out and desaturated so you can only just see their hair lips and eyeballs!

WHYYYY? if anyone can see these pics in your house then chances are they can see YOU and they know you look nothing at all like that!!

I do love a nice interesting print or painting I must admit because I like art, but a few family photos are lovely too and not everyone has a mantlepiece or table available.

I think those Venture portraits are pretty cringey though. No-one looks like they'd normally be doing all that lolling artfully about with their dc.

And my all time photo version of nails scraping on a blackboard - the soft lens/large blow up 'makeover' photo of the laydee of the house. O.M.G.

Interestingly, I don't care what you think about what I hang on my walls.

Worra - we've got school photos of our DS displayed like that (it is in an upstairs study so not visible to guests) .

Obviously I am truly naff.