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)

Well I live lots of pictures, me, dh and dd loved Bognor Regis Butlins and all the Butlins and have been 5 times in 4 years, and I like jelly in trifle.

Yes I am hear to lower the tone

We have a {whispers} painting of DH and myself in the lounge. DH's best man painted it from a snap taken on our honeymoon, and presented it to us as a late wedding present. It's one of those slightly out of focus Warhol-esque things. It is very naff and actually slightly disturbing having myself grinning down from the wall when I'm watching telly, but Best Man is very sensitive and would be deeply wounded if we didn't hang it up.

How many years before I can safely relocate it to a room we don't use together with the embroidery sampler of our wedding date made and given to us by a friend of mine?

How can it be naff when all good stately homes are filled with portraits of old buggers from the 17th century?

I have virtually no family pictures around the house. I've got one small one of my daughter on the tallboy in my room. I love nice photos of my family, but I prefer just to have them scrolling on my screensaver and whathaveyou. I really don't like the look of massive photo-portraits, either on shelves or on the wall. Especially the very staged looking studio kind.

Good on you Molly. I feel sorry for you people with rules about what's supposed to be naff. You are hidebound by class and unable to be yourselves. Following out dated rules from a toxic class system. Poor fuckers.

Rhubarb that painting needs to have an accident. I sense and elbow going through it.

Who made you leader of the world? Had you said 'I think xyz is naff' YWNBU. To baldly state IS naff makes you sound like a pompous ass. I'd much rather be naff.

I should add, in light of Spidermama's comment, that I don't consider other people to be 'naff' because they have such pictures up. Lots of my friends do. I am just not mad keen on having them myself.

It's all a bit Hyacinth Bucket to be judging what other put on their walls in the name of what's naff.

Oh relax Katiepoes! Are you telling me you never state outright that something is crap/naff/tacky/ugly/rubbish/stupid? God forbid someone on an anonymous internet forum should have an opinion!

Oh to be you!

I don't stomp around people's house pointing at things saying 'that's rubbish'.

Squoosh I have tried. It's indestructible. There is some kind of creepy forcefield protecting it.

And bloody hell, it's a pretty inoccuous thing to have an opinion on.

Rhubarb Tell the bestman that you're in love with him and that you lick the painting when your dh isn't around just to be closer to bestman.

If he's a decent sort he'll rip the painting off the wall to quell the longing in your knickers. He may look at you funny from now till eternity but it will be worth it!

Oh poor Squoosh did that hit a nerve?

I totally agree OP.

However, I never claimed to have any taste in household decor, ask LeQ.....

Squoosh if you can't stand the heat don't post offensive judgemental opinions about the choices of others on the internet. Jeez!

If you mean the kind of portraits with a vaseline smeared lense, middle aged lady draped in sheet, then YANBU, they are embarrassing to look at and be forced to admire. If you mean wedding photos on the wall, then YABU because I have 2 3 aperture frames hanging side by side with wedding photos in. I also have a Van Gogh print, postcards in IKEA frames, and photos taken by DH of famous landmarks on the walls (all in different bits of flat).

There must be an awful lot of naff people in the country, cost naff wall portraits pay my wages.

Odd people like you do hit a nerve, wrapped up in their own pompousness.

The Queen. Fucking naff.

My ds1 is currently painting a portrait of us. That will be fabulous as it will be bit naff and pretentious at the same time.
I win

I don't mind family pictures on the wall. What I do object to are the family pictures up on the walls at my mum's house. She doesn't bother putting the school photos into frames and hanging them. She just sticks them up with drawing pins.

Spidermama didn't realise that responding whas the same as 'not being able to stand the heat'.

Jeez.

I don't stomp around people's house pointing at things saying 'that's rubbish'.

Oh but you should!!

I've just counted and I have 16 photos of me, DH and the DCs in my living room but none on the wall and none from venture. Some professional and some family snaps. I have a feature wall (rented so not my choosing) and a brown leather couch. I'm not sure if I'm naff or not? I would also draw the line at photos of DCs in our bedroom.

We wouldn't want pomposity on the thread. Gosh no.