To think that hanging family photos/portraits on the wall is incredibly naff.

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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)

Oh my. All hopes of having my own daytime show a la Nate Berkus, giving oh so helpful advice on how to layer texture and which is the right greige for your room are CRUSHED!

And all because I put up a big canvas photo of my kids running around in their Halloween costumes.

I will close my Pinterest account in shame...

Ooh Peacelove, I read their blog! They're very annoying but I like their style. Not their kitchen colour though.

On my living room wall I have a photo of dm reading to me when I was very small,under it is a photo of me listening to my dad ( in a wheelchair) telling stories to neighbours DC and under that is one of me reading The Gruffalo to guests at dgd's. 4th birthday party.
I have a signed Lowry print of the beach at Deal over the fireplace and a framed poster of mount Everest.I also have two original water colours,a photo taken by dss of DD and her friend on their ponies at the beach,a regimental badge from df-i-l's service years and some framed postcards of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.There is a water colour of a rabbit too. The flat surfaces have lots of wedding and dgc pics and some of dgc artwork.
Would take too long to tell about other rooms but include a sampler and a cut out doll with clothes,a 60 the birthday collage and a copy of a Yeats open and a page froma very old edition of Dante's Inferno.
What do you know about us now then?

Yeats' poem

My neighbour has a humongous picture of her and her dh over her fireplace.

He died last year at the age of 46.

It makes my neighbour and her young daughter happy. And you are being fucking unreasonable.

Sneering at others says much more about you than the person you're sneering at.

toboldlygo If I could actually get my cat in a studio, posing beautifully and not ripping the skin off the photographer's poor hands, I would absolutely have that done!

My dear step mother commissioned an artist to draw sketches from photographs of cats we had in our youth, and then framed and hung them

Slight overreaction there. Was I specifically talking about recently deceased relatives? No I wasn?t, so stop trying to up the bitch factor.

Oh fgs, I really don't care if strangers on the Internet think my lack of style is naff or not!

We have family pictures on our walls, not posed, just snaps and wedding pics. They tell a story though, people that are no longer with us, important events in our life, they all mean something to us. If they offend or irritate visitors, I don't really care.

We have arty prints up as well but I do think our house would be a bit soulless without the pictures.

greylady, i think your wall sounds fab. :)

And although the thought of the wall of 14 child portraits sounds a little creepy, I think its lovely to walk into a room and have a wall of memories on show.
I personally have a wall of family, friends, travel and (gasp!) animal photos. I've had a great life, why not have a reminder of that in my lounge?

I would love to put a couple of the gorgeous photographer photos of dd on the wall somewhere but we live in a shitty rented house with lots of damp and are planning on moving soon. This house does not deserve to be decorated so!
An aunt secretly took dd to get her photo taken for us as a surprise, otherwise I would have waited til she was 1 to take her. I have a friend who has loads of professional photos done of her child and he is not yet 1. Expensive!
I hate those photos already mentionned where the couple/family all do those lounging about leisurely on the floor poses with bare feet shudder its the bare feet part I hate the most, Id need mine to be airbrushed away

:o at having your feet airbrushed, I'm of troll footed descent too.

I have a knitted toilet roll doll and I adore the naffness of it. No one has mentioned it I think they are scared they'll offend me!

They are handy. Just when you think you've ran out of bog roll... voila!! There's a spare!

Also I remember yearrrs ago that a house I used to walk past on the way to work would always have the blinds open at night when their front room light was on, and there in all its glory was a MASSIVE professional photo of an extremely newborn, wrinkly pink faced baby.
I used to think that was bordering on offensive, never mind naff.

....and I mean desperately newborn - face all squashed up and eyes shut etc.

YANBU.

My SIL has photos of her spawn all over her magnolia painted lounge.

Say no more

Spawn?! SPAWN!!!

I name thee Matthew Pinot Wright.

My spawn are on my Teal walls.

listen, any halfway decent photo of me goes on the wall. the reality in the mirror is far too depressing. It reminds me that once upon a time i was thin, well dressed in clean clothes and not sleep deprived.

same goes for my DD. in those portraits she isn't snotty, chocolate covered, mud covered, paint covered, glitter covered, urchinesque in clothes too small, big, worn out. she looks angelic and it gives me hope!

I don't like huge portraits of one person but lots of little photos of the family in one frame esp going up the stairs on in the hall can be quite nice.

YABU it's nor up to you how people display their family photos. Most of mine are on the mantelpiece and shelves,but I do have a couple on the wall.

Oh, damn. I actually asked MN about this a couple of weeks ago.

I don't have stairs or a mantelpiece, sadly. I do have photos of my wedding up in our bedroom because they make me really happy. Other than that the vast majority of stuff on my walls is either kitchenware or loads and loads of books - it's practical and it makes me happy too.

I love seeing pictures of family history. I admit huge blow-up photos of bride and groom in a stereotyped pose don't do much for me, but that is only because of me - if it makes the couple happy, that is a lovely thing.

Well, we have 'art' up on the walls and I suspect people think we're a bunch of pseudo something or others. Naff/up ourselves, in other words.

No pleasing some people.

As long as the photos don't look like they could herald a new category on Awkward Family Photos - why not?

AWARDS AND DIPLOMAS ON THE OTHER HAND - NO NO NO!

I have a lovely A3 display folder for mine.

I used to have them on walls,but went off it.

YABU ish.

I can never see the point in hanging pictures of your children up, especially if they live with you. Seems somewhat pointless.
And if you have to have a picture up, why more than one? I nodded my head at the poster who said her friends house could be a shrine she has that many pictures up of the child.

I have a 'no photo up of anyone' rule. I'm happy with that!

YANBU

Obviously it is not a question of ules: it is a question of taste.

In other news, only a naked savage would put jelly in a trifle.