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)

Ynbu. Professional black and White or sepia posed shots are the worst.

I like having my photos of my DC and my friends on my sitting room wall. I really couldn't care less what's considered naff or tasteful by other people, that's why my house is full of proper tacky crap that I love

"Tasteful" decor is overrated, everywhere is starting to look so samey.

i have lots of pictures of ds, my family, old pictures of grandparents that i love all around the house a few on walls some not. non are professional no laughing for no reason type pictures

a few of myself when i was hot, glam and foxy to remind those that come here and myself i was once her. shame i didn't do a samantha i would have that up too (tastefully covering foofoo of course)

have a big collage in hallway that i love, just a big frame with lots of photos randomly placed, its always a conversation piece must have 100 photos in there of family, friends, some still here some and places i have been that bring back happy memories. one is of brighton beach in the 70's its all faded but reminds me of great times

i love my photos around, i like my memories of those i love, love and miss and wonderful places i have been to come alive not just in my mind

We have photos all over the place. On the piano, we have our wedding photos and the first photo's of the dc, dh's mum and dad at our wedding, my mum and dad at their wedding; dh's graduation photo and mine. On the mantelpiece we have us and dc's at each of their christenings. On top of the sitting room bookcase we have a few special photo's of them.

On the top top landing we have the dc's school photos framed in age order and quite a lot of them as they are 17 and 14 now. In the dining room we have ds's sporting photo's and cups.

In the main hall at the turn of the stairs we have: a pastel of my grandmother aged 3, an oil of my mother, aged 3, a studio portrait of me aged three and a drawing of dd aged 3. They are professionally lit and it looks absolutely stunning.

In our bedroom we have a few pics of me and my dad, a family photo of dh's side and scattered about a few of my mother from her modelling days.

Hope that's naff enough for you Sqoosh. Our house and we do what we like in it.

I'm awaiting delivery of my Venture portraits. One of them is DS in a basket.
I've just put 3 of his 3D scan pictures in a frame in my room.
I have a feature wall with garish pink flowers on, with a Billy bookcase against it.

SodoffBaldrick The Mona Lisa comment - it was a joke! Although I think you are a little confused about the word 'portrait'. A portrait is a picture of a person or group of people. It makes no difference whether it is a photograph or an oil painting - it is still a portrait.

I've never even heard of Venture. Is it like Olan Mills before they went bust?

I love going to other peoples houses and looking at their framed wedding photos. Usually because they look so young and unlike their current harrassed middleaged selves.

Especially the ones reflected in a wine glass

Im incredibly naff! I live in a really tiny house so the only room for pictures is on the walls. Who cares what other people think anyway!

I couldn't give a fuck whether people think I'm common or not. I love looking at the pictures on my walls, they're not there for visitors, they are there for me. God, you're a lot of snobs.

Is it any wonder some people have such little confidence in themselves when there are all these secret rules and just when someone has scraped together enough money to buy eg a leather sofa or a Venture portrait, some bitchy people feel the need to deride them for their lack of taste and class. I realise that's long been the case in this country but it doesn't stop it leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

Class to me should be judged on values and behaviour not possessions, appearances and the ability to fit in with a lot of pretentious rules that either change every 5 minutes just so those 'in the know' can feel even more smug about themselves while those who're out of the loop wonder how come they never seem to get it quite right or which are so outdated as to be bloody ridiculous.

I realise admitting to caring this much says lots about me but I bet I'm not the only one.

I am getting visions of marriedinwhite's house being like a mansion. It sounds lovely!

YANBU

Family photos should be in silver frames on top of the piano (the upright not the grand).

The only portraits on the walls should be oil paintings of the ancestors.

I get the message loud and clear, I am an interiors snob! I love interiors, I get all hot and sweaty at the sight of a new edition of Living Etc.

I don?t think I?d describe my home as tastefully decorated at all. I have rules for me, by which I mean stuff I like, stuff I hate. Many an disapproving glance has been cast over my stuff, it doesn?t bother me. I?m not seriously expecting people to take their ginormous portraits off the walls even though their houses would look better if they did.

I love art on walls, the more the better, stick it all up. I blame most of these child portraits on that photographer Anne Geddes who dresses babies up as sunflowers and bumble bees. Ugh. Creepy in the extreme.

I haven't read since my last post. Has this thread gone serious? Is everybody taking offence again?

Despite my best efforts to interject a little piss taking along the way this bloody thread is determined to remain defensive.

I have 3 pics of my DCs on the wall. They aren't in plant pots though.

What about a nice collage OP... bleughhh!!!!!

My 'wall decorations' are naff and I know it. They're only up to please MIL and DH though and far, far better than the sepia flower print DH had hanging over the fireplace before

I forgot to say, the horrible sepia flower print was a million-run special edition from B&Q

In my recently re-decorated ensuite I have a large picture of the dc hanging above the loo. To be perfectly honest, I put it there to hide the marks from the cupboard which used to be there and which I got bored trying to hide properly.

I am sure this is naff-ola but DH has admitted he quite likes it as it gives him something to look at when he does a horse wee first thing in the morning, previously all he had to look at was a bare wall (with cupboard marks) for 10 minutes or so.

So, it actually fills a practical purpose which surely makes it completely acceptable?

My great aunt has a photo of Pope John Paul II (don't think she quite approves of Benedict) on the wall in her downstairs toilet. In the photo he's making a blessing.....at me......sitting on the toilet.

Rhubarbgarden you and your painting have scared me.

You just know if anything were to happen to it, he would paint you another one don't you?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww - photos on walls = lovely; those tables full of photos in frames = no. Just no.

OP - is this your house??

Oooh I bloody wish. Not with the plates sitting up on that ledge though, t'would have my nerves on edge.

I agree on couple pics and wedding ones and eeeeeek soft focus 'glam' freebies but I have to confess that if I see 'art' on the walls I tend to snigger and think "hotel bedroom art" let's face it, very few people an afford real art pieces.

Cripes, wish I hadn't read this thread now . We have up on you stairs wall a few photos I've taken, some of landscapes from when we've been on holiday and also one of dd/dh and dd/our whole family together at dds christening. In our dining room we have 4 smallish frames on the wall with family shots and one of those huge frames you can squeeze loads of photos in. Everywhere else photos are on surfaces/fireplaces. People really look down on these things? Thinking about it DM/D have no photos on wall, only on surfaces, even my sister refuses to hang her cambridge matriculation photo on the wall for fear of looking showy offy, but then BIL/SIL/MIL/FIL have nothing but photos of family. Is this a class thing I wonder?

Yes, paintings - what is the thinking on portraits on DC? My parents have a pastel painting of my sister and I and I was going to get one done of DD in a year or so - is this acceptable by mn?!