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)

Another paid up member of the Naff Home Décor Crew here!

I bought..... wait for it...... a frame from Matalan which says 'Laughter, Life, Love' under 3 separate spaces for 3 photos. I realise that I am beyond the pale

BTW WTF wouldn't you put jelly in trifle??

'mantelpiece' is naff, OP, didncha know? Very LM, dear. Best not attempt to be an arbiter of taste if you can't rid your diction of vulgar neologisms...

Nothing more dull than ghastly good taste IMO.

Oh and I am over 40 and wear a denim jacket sometimes

changeforthebetter Good for you!
Not only am I a well-over-40 denim-jacket wearing person, but I have a posed photo of my family hanging on my landing wall at the top of the stairs.

I also (confessional time here) actually quite like the really 'arty' black-and-white family photos they do on Extreme Makeover Home Edition...

What I think looks naff is those squares of e.g. striped fabric stretched over a thin block of something and hung as a picture. It's like making a picture out of your granny's tablecloth and completely impersonal if bought from somewhere like the range. Of course if you have stripy blocks on your walls that is up to you , but I have no room due to DC photos and artwork.

I can't afford art. I have got two way cute babies that I can photograph for free.

maybe your kids are ugly??

BigFat so funny I am quietly giggling as supposed to be working!!

In answer to the OPs suggestion "Art on your wall people not studio portraits of your cherubs!", I would say that my children are the most beautiful works of art known to man (imo) but as I can't actually pin them to the wall without getting into trouble, I have the next best thing.

If you don't like what I have on my walls, stop peering through my windows.

I read this and promptly went and put three pictures of the dds up on the sitting room walls.

Very naff indeed
Self congratulatory

Bet your 'art' is common. My photos are unique.

If walls are for art, why are galleries full of pictures of people? I love photos, i love other peoples photos cos they make them happy.

Exactly GobHoblin. The world's probably most famous piece of art - The Mona Lisa - is just a 16th century studio portrait.

I have a local artist doing a commissioned picture of my youngest, after he did one of my eldest when she was younger. Its beautiful, he is very talented and I can't wait to get it on my wall.
Its not Venture, its not a photo, its actual art but its of the DC so I suppose that still makes it naff??

What a load of bollocks.

Put what you want on your walls.

We don't all have a mantlepiece and a piano to show off our silver framed photos on.

And why would you even care what other people have/do?

Unless you are a crashing snob?

I have one big professional photo of DD on the wall, there is an empty space adjacent to it, which will be taken up by a pic of DS (when he gets to the same age). I have family pics on the bookshelves and 2 of DD on the sideboard in the front room. It's not naff. Stop being a party pooper.

Oh,and my DC's photo's are on the wall in................................

CLIP FRAMES.................

Is that naff enough for you?

I have pictures of my dcs on the walls.
They are gorgeous.
Much better than naff attempts at art such as the ones mentioned by DrCoconut.

Exactly, GobHoblin, family portraits have been adorning walls for centuries.

OP, of course YABU. I have loads of artwork as well as photos of the DCs on my walls, some are those blown up canvases. They make me smile whenever I see them. I've always considered myself quite tasteful , may need to reconsider now.

But do you not love the memories of a photo I am looking now at my Boy in a particular photo and the lovely memory is amazing. It would not come if hidden in an album.

OP - what do you think of the impressions of baby hands and feet hung on the wall?

"self congratulatory"

Ahahahaha that is hysterical. I love it.

The naffest thing of all is to put photos in silver frames on top of the piano. That just tells the whole world, you don't actually play the piano!

Also, I KNOW that the one Venture print I own, taken when we only had 2 children (the little free one you used to get 10 years ago, not sure what they do now) is naff. But it will never, ever, ever leave its prime spot of my mantlepiece, for the sole reason I look BLOODY FANTASTIC in it!!! I am the photographer in my house and I have gazillion photos of my children and my husband looking fantastic, I'm allowed to have that one!!!