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)

Rrrrrrrrrules.

Ahem.

I have just managed to persuade DP to put photos of our PFB up on the walls, he thinks they're naff too. (There are now 5 dotted around the house)
Give me an inch...

(The small 80 year old faded photo of my ancestors all dressed up for a wedding in their Sarf London slum best is, of course, a Completely Different Matter.)

Personally I think that photos arranged on a table makes you look like an Old Person. [shrug]

This thread has me worried.

I have just realised that the only place my parents have any family photos is in the loo. I have somehow absorbed this as the natural place to put your nearest and dearest.

Does anyone else do this?

I think it maybe depends what your attitude is, not just what you display.

I know that - for me - putting up lovely pictures of DH, or my family, or me, is a reminder of how good things can be.

I grew up in a house where you only showed photos of 'important' events like graduating from university (not, for example, getting married). I really take pleasure in seeing pictures of my beautiful niece, and my brothers and SIL, and, yes, of me and DH. To me, it sets up a context in people can feel recognized and celebrated because they are loved, not because of what they did. Maybe if that recognition had been there in all sorts of non-visual ways in my childhood, I would not want to do it .. but what is the harm that I do?

Can't be arsed to read the whole thread. The op is too stupid for words. Who gives a toss what anyone else has on their walls. Can't be doing with this pointless judginess.

I shall put what I want on my walls thanks. It's me that has to look at them.

I really don't like to see family photographs in a house at all - they look naff and old persony shether they are on the wall or on a table. If you have some interesting ones from victorian times etc. those look OK, but not otherwise.
This is of course my personal view and may not make sense to anyone else.
I found it totally nauseating recently to visit the house of a colleague who always goes on and on about how unhappy his marriage is to see a large 15 year old photo of his wedding prominently displayed.

Don't agree with the "less offensive" leading up the stairs.
One of dh's friends had the soft-focus, draped in a sheet pics of his (then) girlfriend leading up the stairs. The sheet was getting lower and lower as you climbed the stairs, leading to the bedroom. Whenever I went up to use the loo, it would take me a good 5 mins to compose myself from giggling before I could come back down!
They have since had 2 children and I haven't been back - must plan a visit to see if the soft pornfocus shots have been usurped

I have huge photos of myself naked with artfully draped feather boas/cannily placed cushions/flouncy scarves on all the walls in my house.

I also have my 1st dan karate certificate and copy of my black belt framed and on the first wall that people see as they enter my home, as a warning Not To Point And Laugh at the naked photos.

I may be lying a little bit too

wimblehorse 'One of dh's friends had the soft-focus, draped in a sheet pics of his (then) girlfriend leading up the stairs. The sheet was getting lower and lower as you climbed the stairs, leading to the bedroom'.

That's so bad!

I imagine now that they have kids that it's been updated to a picture of a freshly showered mum at the bottom of the stairs and then becoming increasingly bedraggled in each successive picture until the last one at the top of the stairs with a speech bubble that says 'Fuck it, I'm going to bed, don't wake me up'

eh, my family are out all day at school and work, I like seeing pictures of them. I particularly like seeing pictures of them as babies and toddlers, they were so cute and squishy.

Squoosh, feel free not to come to my naff house.

littlems, you've seen my staircase!

Higgle, his marriage may be unhappy but if he removed the photo that may be interpreted as a sign that they are no longer trying to save the marriage. His crime is oversharing his marital problems not displaying the photos.

I really don't understand why people don't like to see family photos on display. Our family home is not an interior design showroom nor is it a museum, everything in it is for our benefit not to please any discerning visitors that might cross the threshold one day.

It reminds of when I bought a couple of second hand books in my lunch hour, Marco Polos expeditions was one of them and the other one was some classic that I had been meaning to read for a while. My colleague looked down her nose at me and said that I had no intention of reading them and just wanted to display them on my bookcase to impress visitors! Well I rarely have visitors and most of my books are in piles under my bed so not much chance of showing off there.

Unlike my colleague my home is full of things that me and my family like, we are not decorating our home to please other people, that surely is a sign of massive insecurity.

littlemslazybones love it !

My Grandma has a splendid system. Photos of the great-grandchildren are displayed according to how good their parents have been about visiting/ eating cake/ not having tattoos and piercings and generally lowering the tone. Pride of place is the mantelpiece, my kids have only made it there once.

Family pictures belong in the downstairs loo.

Ooh us too lequeen shots taken by us of DC and extended family. Its the professional photo shoot ones that make me cringe. I blame posh and becks.

A friend told me recently that I really should go to venture to get some big photos done for the walls because otherwise people will think I don't care about my DCs

LOL Givingupmyjob - had she just taken on a ripoff Venture franchise, by any chance?

Not that I'm aware of stealthsquiggle but this is the same friend who said I am not being a good mother because I don't give my children enough chips and so i do take her parenting advice with a pinch of salt!

YABU! Surely it's personal choice? I love having photos up, and looking how the dc have changed. My dc are the most beautiful art ever naturally