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)

These threads are always hilarious.

One half going along with the joke and poking fun at themselves if appropriate, and the other half taking extreme offence and telling people to fuck off with their opinions.

The last one was the jelly-in-trifle thread.

My friend had one where her children were dressed as fairy tale characters, and the photographer told her that the mother in such photos usually wears a plain, chic, black outfit. My friend wasn't having any of that and turned up wearing a ball gown and small crown.

Now I think that is worth it for the entertainment value. If you are going to have professional photos done and hang them on the walls, you should completely go for it and look entirely different from how would you look in your everyday photos. Then it is worth doing.

we haven't had any studio portraits done of DS, but have a few photos of him which I will frame one day, and hopefully hang somewhere in the house.

If I saw something I liked in IKEA, I wouldn't say no to getting it.

My house has art/photos that mean something to me (and to a lesser extent, to DH). I don't care if it's naff. It's still mine.

I have a brown leather couch.... It was dh's nan's. When she died, we were given it.

We have a canvas picture of our wedding. We are looking at each other while the posing signing the register. It makes me smile because, at the time, put of the corner of my mouth I was asking dh what the fuck were we supposed to do. It also hasn't been photoshopped at all.

We also have pictures of family around, but they are on the bookcase, not the wall.

Am I still allowed to live in your land Squoosh?

My house is a home, not a gallery.

I haven't got a single thing on my walls except the kitchen clock.
DH OTOH, has a whole wall of photos of DD, my family, my sister's family and some friends. None of his family strangely enough.
I can't wait to get them all back again so they can go up here.

I was in a flat recently of a couple who had just moved in together.

They had a mahoosive portrait in their bedroom, not over the bed but staring down at them from the opposite wall. They had another one in the sitting room and a teenier one in the bathroom.

It's what I imagine Posh n Beck's first gaff would've looked like.

And I disagree with that last comment squoosh. People who decorate their house in the manner you have stated are saying they like to fit in and keep current.

Personally I like to see an eclectic mix of wall decoration, each piece telling a different story about itself, and if that includes photos or portraits to represent a time in that persons life, then so be it.

Bollocks...I rose to the sodding bait didn't I!

ILIKETRAINS, I did too. ~This thread would be pointless if some of us didn't bite :)

The only room for me that is a no no is the bedroom, that is our room and the idea of my children eyes is just to creepy.

Yes lazymonkeyface you'd be very welcome in my land.

Photoshopping family snaps is naff. What happened to ripping up the ones you hate and keeping the one flattering one? Also I'd be worried that if I started photoshopping I'd refuse to let go unless I looked like Eva Mendes in every photo.

I look nothing like Eva Mendes.

I can't have any photos on tables/window sill etc, thanks to my pets.

I have been looking at a multi frame and wanted to put funny pet pictures up, but my children (teens/adult) are protesting to much. They do the same when i only post pictures of my dog on days out on FB.

LOL at OP. I have less issue with (nice) photos of people's DC than with dozens of wedding photos (ours are firmly in an album and staying there). MOst of the pictures we have up are ones we have taken, with a few school/nursery ones mixed in. The only "venture-style" ones we have (of DD) are amongst those stacked up on the mantlepiece waiting for me to spend £££ on frames. We have found an answer for school class and team photos, though - they are now officially going on the wall by the DC's rooms, well out of general sight (I like photos of my DC on the wall, not other people's)

Shit man who gives a flying fuck? I mean really? I couldn't possibly give a shit about what any other person chooses to put on their walls or mantlepieces. It's not even slightly interesting.

I agree. I argue with DH about this. He tried to put photos of his neices in my living room. We don't even have dd in the living room.

I have a gorgeous painting of Newcastle quayside (the side) on my wall covered in snow.

Hmm, I thought YWBU, but actually I agree with you.

I love photos, I would have millions given the chance.mmmmmmm

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Sorry baby helping me type!

Interesting enough to type out a whole contribution to the thread though, clearly... :)

What Spidermama said.

YABU. I don't understand why it is considered naff. Why is it ok to display a photo on a shelf but not on a wall? I don't get it.

I must be truly naff cause I have a A3 size picture of DS underwater during his water babies lessons, I love it

Oh lord , mine are in heirloom silver frames on the grand piano in the drawing room

Walls are for paintings Dahling!