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)

bettybat I had a friend at uni with that man & baby pic on her wall. Haven't seen it for years though.

Love crunchyfrogs framed music sheets going up the stairs.

Is the word naff losing all meaning?

Naff naff naff naff naff naff naff naff naff

I have lots and lots of family photos on the wall... The only studio shots are ones done pre-1945, and all the ones of my children are taken myself. I have my whole family up there, and my whole family tree. I like it, and people do tend to pause and have a look when they come in, look for similarities between my great great great grandad when he was a boy, and my DC. I love it and it's staying.

DarDer it is a rule for me certainly. In much the same way I have a rule that I'll never get a perm or I'll never wear acid yellow.

But I'm a polite house guest and have never pointed and sneered even when confronted with bloody massive blown up canvas of a person or their children.

Squoosh your joy seems to stem from a knowledge that you know the rules and have correctly applied them, and the belief that this gives you some superiority over those who haven't realised what the rules are.

That's a stunted sorted of joy in my book.

And another 'rule' is that if someone gives me a gift that isn't to my taste, it won't be displayed.

My joy comes from not having any ass ugly photos on my wall actually.

The only thing that REALLY makes my teeth itch - about anything really - is people who decorate a certain way because they think they should, and then go round seeking approval for it. Literally no taste. If Venture portraits etc are your thing who cares?
Personally I'm of the "Where it lands, it lives" school of thought. ie completely disorganised

Ha ha ha! Are you joking? Who cares, really? Live and let live.

They are personal choices not rules.

I agree we should all take satisfaction in our personal choices, but that's not really what this OP was about now was it??

Thanks spidermama.

It was about photos of people being hung on the wall looking crap. I still think family photos being hung on the wall look crap.

So many rules Squoosh!!

You don't sound very joyful.

I take MUCH better photos of my children than anyone else.
I've had so called 'professional' shots taken and people always comment on the nautural ones I've taken myself instead of the ones I paid hundreds of pounds to some charlatan photographer who took a photography course one rainy Saturday morning and thinks it gives him the right to charge a few hundred quid for their lame pics
I know just how to catch my kids at the right time, in the right light, being 'natural' and not all fake cheer like Venture.
I no longer pay for pro shots because I can save a fortune taking far nicer ones myself. In the days where digital cameras are so cheap and so good, and where you can see what you've taken and delete until you're happy, who in their right mind would pay to get professional photos done?

I have photos everywhere makes me happy. I hate the sephia photos I know some people have had done where people in the photos are in old fashioned clothing. [Shudder]

Are people meant to sound joyful all the time?

When I was a teenager I made my mum feel like a total freak by pointing out there were no photos of anyone displayed anywhere (wall, ceiling, mantel, baby grand ) anywhere in the house.

This was remedied when by great aunt gave by dad pictures of my mums patents inside Christmas decorations - now that's naff!

Do you want us all to agree with you, squoosh or is that you just wanted to write that simply for the purposes of writing it?

I bet my pictures of my cat hung on my walls would bring you out in hives. Framed pictures...of cats...say it isn't so??!!

I've got graduation pics of DS1 and DD on the wall along with wedding pics and a couple of photographs of me DH and all 6 DC when they were small. Also framed photos of the grandparents (now dead) and our GC.

I don't give a s*d if it's naff or not.

FWIW DD thinks the graduation photos are naff.

We've got dozens of albums. I am gradually working my way through the boxes of pics. I'm up to the year 2003 now and that's when we bought our first digital camera so it's getting easier.

Oh I have a framed picture of my dog, it's just not hanging on the wall.

Oh mine are :D

I even have one of those portrait frames that fits three pictures? Dh, then me, then Bo.

mine are not professional portraits or anything but all over our back wall in d>rm lots of lovely memories of random things-none are posed at all. I do hate those portrait make over type things though.

Can't be arsed to read the whole thread - who cares?

You obviously have far too much time on your hands to dust ....

Good for you!!

Honestly Squoosh, who cares?

Rules = I'm right and you're wrong.

This is a ner ner ner ner ner school yard thread really. I'm sorry I posted on it. Matthew Write is right about mumsnet.

I secretly agree but wouldn't say it in RL for fear of looking like a git.
My other personal no-no is any kind of studio portrait, even when its children. Even when they look lovely. They just seem so contrived and twee. I love photos though but would rather have them in an album.

Wow Spidermama and DaDerDaDer, sense of humour failure or what? Lighten up ladies, this is a whimsical AIBU thread, not the Guardian!