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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask how many pictures you have around your home?

39 replies

JaceLancs · 26/09/2017 22:02

Just got back from holiday and although I don't always buy souvenirs if I do it's nearly always picture related - this time I brought back 3 tiles which I've framed in a box frame
It started me thinking about all the others - not all of which are holiday related
Here's my totals
Lounge 26
Dining room 5
Kitchen 1
Hallway 1
Stairs 4
Landing 2
Bathroom 2
My bedroom 11
Believe it or not it doesn't look that cluttered - I have plain walls and tend to group things
How about your picture habits?

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Dunkling · 27/09/2017 07:51

Lots and lots and lots so won't bother to count.

Usually just bought when I see something I like. I think pictures make a home.

I never put photos on the wall though, I think that looks really tacky, always in a stand frame for me.

caoraich · 27/09/2017 08:03

Too many to count!
Mainly paintings and a few prints, though. A few photos of us - at grad ball and with family but those are on cabinets not the walls. I love seeing what pictures people have up when I visit their homes, same with books.

AnnabelleLecter · 27/09/2017 08:14

Loads I love art-
Our bedroom- 4
Other bedrooms-3
Living Room- 5
Kitchen/diner-6
Hall-3
Office-5
Landing-3
Utility room-2
Sitting room-4
Loo-2
Conservatory-2
All favourite pieces, some from local artists.
I like prints of William Blake, Luis Royo, Dimitri Patelis, Boris Vallejo. As well as pop art, maps etc.

RedBlackberries · 27/09/2017 08:27

Not as many as I'd like because of renting rules. Dd has a couple of animal drawings and her name in a rainbow on her wall, a couple of big abstract ones in the bedroom and a few in the front room. I moved with barely anything and people were so kind that they gave me usual chairs, rugs etc to furnish the place but also framed prints. Only dds ones were actually chosen by me!

Lots of photos around and tons of fridge art Grin

Giggorata · 27/09/2017 08:38

Lots of pictures, no photographs. Some inherited, some by friends or just stuff we buy because we like them. Also have drums, taxidermy, swords on some walls. Overall, we have very little wall space because of all the books.

LilyMcClellan · 27/09/2017 10:30

50+ pieces, mix of contemporary paintings, wall-hung sculpture, art photography and family photographs.

speakout · 27/09/2017 12:46

Interesting that some of yo have so much!

I adore art, but there are very few pictures things I would want to look at every day.
My moods change and something I like one day may not be so pleasurable the next. I have huge picture windows all around my property and looks onto ancient woodland, so I am spoiled a bit on the aesthetic front.

JaceLancs · 27/09/2017 12:50

I'm enjoying imagining your homes
None of mine are photos other than a few sepia Francis frith type
I only have 3-4 photos of family and they are in tiny stand up frames eksewhere

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speakout · 27/09/2017 12:59

My other problem is that we are a family of 5 adults ( youngest is 17).
We all have different tastes in artwork.
My mother likes pictures of kittens plating with wool, it would drive me mad to have to look at that every day.
I enjoy neolithic and mesolithic artwork, but I know it isn't to everyone's tastes either, so it' s big compromise.
Hence the huge forest photograph on my dining wall, we all seem to agree on that one, but I would rather have bare walls than paintings of kittens.

bridgetreilly · 27/09/2017 13:06

Bathroom:
One silk painting done by a friend
One screenprint done by me.
I also have 3 tiles I bought on holiday in here!

Lounge/dining/kitchen:
Six pictures/textile pieces done by me
One framed Bridget Riley poster

Bedroom: Three large canvases done by me.

Craft room: about a dozen, I think, mostly prints and things I've picked up over the years.

I can't fit many on my walls because of sloping ceilings and beams, and also because it's a small house, so furniture takes up most of the wall space. I've got lots more paintings that I could put up if I could make room.

Natsku · 27/09/2017 13:18

I'm always picking up pictures/paintings in second hand shops. At the moment there's 5 in the lounge plus one wall hanging, 3 in the playroom plus 2 wall hangings, 1 in the kitchen, 2 plus 1 wall hanging in the hallway, 7 going up the stairs, 7 in DD's room, and 3 in our room.

Have a couple more at work waiting for me to take home but can't think where to fit them!

Bluntness100 · 27/09/2017 13:23

Five in living room
11 in hallways, landings, stair wells etc and they also have three mirrors dotted round.
Three in second living room
One in each bedroom
Three in main bathroom
One in downstairs loo

ProfessorCat · 27/09/2017 13:25

I have a couple of prints and quotes. A couple of original watercolours.

I cannot stand family photos on the walls or stood around gathering dust. Especially the horrid posed school ones. I went to someone's house once and she'd blu-tak'd school photos onto her living room wall in those cardboard frames they come in.

If I want to look at photos of my children, I look at an album or my phone.

wonkylegs · 27/09/2017 13:36

Every room has pictures or paintings in except our shower room which has a sculpture in it.

It's a mixture of photos - family and artistic (my brother is a professional photographer) and art (my sister & I paint + some pieces DH bought me)

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