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)

Squoosh all I'm saying is that if your OP is a direct attack on many people and their tastes then you should be prepared for a counter attack.

I should possibly clarify further that I don't judge any household furnishing choices at anyone else's houses.

I don't care what people do. I was just saying what I like.

I'll leave now.

Is it just studio shots that are offensive? We have a photo ds blown up and it's an iphone shot from holiday. Tis the best picture ever. No really.

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.

Oh god they're so 90's aren't they?

I remember being at my Aunt's house and pointing to one of those photos on the wall. I said, "That's nice, who is it?"....she replied, "Errr it's me of course"??

I sat for the next hour trying to find one thing about the photo that actually resembled her but couldn't

LOL @ 'Err .. it's me of course'

This thread reminds me of the English class system. Fuck racism and hate. Let's just discriminate right across the board!

Ha ha ha

Whoever thought that opinions on what folk hang on there walls could lead to such dissent.

Go on Squoosh.. Dare to be naff!!

Put a photo on the wall, realise rules can be broken, some things arent important, feel the fear of naffness and do it anyway.

It'll be liberating.

You'll still be the same person inside that you were when the photo was on the mantelpiece.

Enjoying creating a beautiful home is lovely, but when you become so rule bound with it, so judgemental, and so full of fear of making a 'wrong' choice and failing your imaginary good taste test, you really are missing the point and losing the joy.

Break free from your rule bound existence.

I should have known after the 'Trifle: Jelly In, Jelly Out?' debacle.

I agree with op, although irl when confronted with a 4ft square canvas print of someone's pfb grinning at me from the wall I always admire enthusiastically.

I think this is amusing.

By the sounds of it I am everything that OP would find naff.
Her opinions bother not a jot.

Feature wall, brown leather sofa, 3 large photos of my DCs (not Venture but you can't have everything ), matching wood furniture (are you sweating yet OP?), laminate flooring.

And I don't give a monkeys

It's not worth taking seriously.

DaDerDaDer I used to conform and "proudly" displayed a few wedding pics and PFP pics, cause I thought one should.., y'know, it's not as if I'm NOT proud of my beautiful DS..
then got my walls re plastered and loved having them down and nice clear walls with a few big pieces of art still up
I haven't put a photo back up since, i prefer how it looks, THAT is liberating, automatically putting up wedding photos and PFB wedding photos was not

yanbu.

Oils of one's 17century ancestors are okay though.

Personally, I hate studio photos and wedding photos, but almost everyone I know loves 'em, so guessing I'm the minority.

I LOVE tons of family pics in frames on walls. When I saw the Royal Tennenabums and their higgledy-piggledy walls of family pictures, I absolutely coveted it and vowed to replicate it in my own home

I'm not massively keen on a) professionally done pics, b) uniform size of picture and type of frame and c) lots of myself but I make up for that in the sheer amount of images I have, the variety of frames and the fact that there's an awful lot of pictures of my cat included. Particularly up the stairs wall, there is a large assortment of me, DH, beloved cat, parents, family and me and DH as young (and super cute) children.

I would say each to their own but I silently sneer at factory line "art" that's obviously come from a 2 billion print job from Ikea, Homebase, Primark or wherever. Particularly those bland, textured stretched-over-canvas things with the blocks of horizontal colours.

If it's possible to simultaneously know nothing about art, and be a complete snob about the carefully selected paintings on my walls, that's what I am!

But DaDerDaDer my home does make me feel joyful. Everyone has things that they definitely wouldn't do in terms of their own home.

Photos on walls is something I hate. As is taxidermy, so I can't be that posh can I?

Oh my house is covered in family photos. I even have Venture ones

Couldn't give two hoots about what other people think. If you are a guest in my home, I assume you have more manners than to go away and diss me for choosing to display photos in my own house. Now, if I was to hang my photos in your house...

I think we should all aim to have something in our houses on public display which we know is probably very naff and will be judged by others, yet we force ourselves to confront this fear of public judgement head on.

I think it would be very good for all our souls.

I'll start by getting out of the attic the statuette we had as a wedding present of a man and women gazing at each other and putting in the hall, if you'll all join me.

Seriously though this rule bound fear is not good for us. Man.

DP and I have pictures of our DC on the mantlepiece in our bedroom and lots in photo albums. I really don't like photos in living rooms or up the stairs. I see them every day, any guests we have over can see them in real life. There is simply no need to have pictures of them all over the living room walls. It looks very tacky and untidy. I'm sure the pictures we do have on the walls wouldn't be to anyone else's taste (I'm not that keen on them myself tbh but it looks too bare without them).

Would anyone admit to having a framed Athena picture of a sensitive, half naked man holding a baby

cup You can have as many photos of your girls on your walls as you damned well want.

I have both so ner to you! I even have one of those canvasy things because it was free through photo box or the like! Ha!

Squoosh you haven't started a thread to say you like photos on mantle pieces, you've declared it a rule and all who break it as being that terrible thing...naff.

That's the difference you see.

Thanks Exit

Liking your work on the thread Dardedarde.

Or rather DaDerDaDer.