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How many photos you have on display?.

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SleepingStandingUp · 11/01/2019 00:52

Just curious.

I've bought 7 frames for a photo shoot we had done of DS but trying to work out where to out them.

Living room has 21 photos plus 5 multiframes. Hallway (where the new ones are likely to go) has 4. Spare room (box room) has 1 and 2 multiframes. DS's room has 11. Our room has 3 framed but a wall full too.

I'm beginning to think it's excessive...

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birdiewoof · 11/01/2019 08:11

Hardly any, need to get some frames!! We bought some professional photos of DC1 when she was a baby (and I was pregnant with DC2) we never put them up because couldn’t afford to get any done of DC2 🙈🙈

Tiredofit · 11/01/2019 08:19

I have 3 multi-frames and a large Ds3 picture in the dining room and 15 individual pictures and a triple frame in the living room. 4 in the hall and 6 in our bedroom. I do have three children, three step children, eight step grandchildren and a step great grandson not to mention two dogs so many photos needed.

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SleepingStandingUp · 11/01/2019 08:23

look really cluttered and untidy
Yeah, def a risk of this but I'm so bad at minimalism. DH would def have less "stuff"

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 11/01/2019 08:28

1 of my cat, 1 of my wedding day, 1 of my Mum (bit incongruous, no idea why I've got that one on display) and 1 of my children = 4, all in small 5 x 7 format.

proudestofmums · 11/01/2019 08:29

Tons. And for my birthday as my present from DH I’m having two sets of 9 photos of DS professionally framed in 2 matching frames. One set is of DS in various outfits as child and teenager (sports kit, school uniform, smart suit for wedding sort of thing) and one set of him as an adult in work related kit

PS we only have one child so I’m not discriminating!

BillyAndTheSillies · 11/01/2019 08:32

4 on a dresser in the hallway, one multi-frame in living room and 3 on the wall in our bedroom.

All DS really.

MIL went through a stage of buying us canvases but I'm really not keen on them. They were hung until we renovated but we haven't put them back up yet. I might just ask her for the order (our wedding collage etc) and have it printed on gloss paper and framed. I just really dislike canvases.

Ffsnosexallowed · 11/01/2019 08:34

Just 3. A great big one of dd1 when she was about 2, a black and white one of my mum when she was about 19 and a little black and white one of my and my brother with my mum.

Lifecanbeabeach2 · 11/01/2019 08:35

I don’t have a single one 🤣🙈

donajimena · 11/01/2019 08:37

One. I don't like photos of people on display. I have plenty in an album.

Thirtyrock39 · 11/01/2019 08:44

We've just redecorated our lounge so had to take all the photos down and I have to say it looks so much cleaner and neater without them. I've put a couple back on the windowsill and a couple on the book shelf but the rest I've moved to the upstairs hall wall as you walk down the stairs. It's made a good feature of that area and kept the lounge looking smart. I've got a couple of small canvas photo prints but do think they'll become something that are seen as quite dated - a bit like those digital photo frames that we're popular for about five minutes in 2006

AlanaMay · 11/01/2019 08:44

None! I don't need pictures of people I know and love to remind me that I know and love them.
I'd rather have a piece of art or a houseplant!.... I guess the only possible exception might be a memory of a particular place or holiday but it would have to be a great shot artistically as well as having people in it (eg my kids in a stunning landscape).

Dontsweatthelittlestuff · 11/01/2019 09:02

Loads mostly of my late husband with our boys taken at various stages of their lives. None are on the walls but all framed and in various groups dotted around the fireplace, in cabinets or on shelves. Also have my wedding photo on a side table and a few miniatures of my husband as a baby.
I also have hundreds of photos labelled boxed and stored in crates in the understairs cupboard.

RosemarysBabyDress · 11/01/2019 09:10

Pretty much an entire wall in the kitchen with a mix of photos and framed "art" from the kids - these box frames where you can just pile the pages, which look tidier than piling crap art on the fridge.

Multiframes and canvas in my study, DH has a few in his too, some pics in my bedroom. The kids all have boards and frames in their bedroom where they can put whatever they like.

I don't like photos in my living room or the hall, but it doesn't matter. You should have a house that you like, not bother about what people might think. Just declutter the day you sell!

Coralnails · 11/01/2019 09:17

3 small framed ones in the lining room, and the same in the bedroom.

I'm also not a fan of too many photos on display, I also don't like professional photos.

I like having a select few on display, and usually action shots so maybe dc paddling in the sea or playing in the snow. Because these are nice memories.

Jizzle · 11/01/2019 09:20

I personally find having family photographs up to be really tacky, but each to their own! Much prefer artwork or prints.

elvis86 · 11/01/2019 09:23

It'll be flamed for being a snob, but I generally agree with and live by the mantra that walls are for art and that photos of people should be in frames rested on surfaces.

I think walls full of family photos look hideous.

We've got a few photos on windowsills, then a cluster on console tables in the hall and on the landing. We have picture shelves in our lounge alcoves and did cheat by sneaking a couple of wedding pictures up there amongst the other pieces. We tend to rotate that though, so they may not last up there!

Never in a naff "Family" or similar multiframe, though (sorry). 😳😳😳

RosemarysBabyDress · 11/01/2019 09:23

Even the Queen has family photos on display, so I think it's pretty safe to do as you like Grin

RosemarysBabyDress · 11/01/2019 09:26

elvis86
You can decorate your home without making judgements about other people. I call things on windowsills "clutter" for a start.

If you prefer to have an oil painting of your wedding on your wall, it's up to you, but the world has moved on, and photos are there for enjoy if people like them.

notacooldad · 11/01/2019 09:30

None.

JaceLancs · 11/01/2019 09:31

Not much in way of photos that I can think of maybe 4-5 around house but quite small and none in main living room
Pictures on the other hand! I have 20+ just in sitting room
Probably 50-60 around whole house

elvis86 · 11/01/2019 09:32

RosemarysBabyDress - of course people can have what they like in their own homes.

The OP asked how many photos other people had on display as she feared hers were getting excessive. I told her what I have and my rationale.

Knew I'd get flamed! 😂

easyandy101 · 11/01/2019 09:34

I think there's 1 passport photo of me

No other photos, but have a few paintings, one of which we bought because it looks like my partner

Cookit · 11/01/2019 09:35

9 scattered around and I already thought that was lots!
I wouldn’t frame more than 1 from the same shoot or roughly time period though, if that makes sense.

Lweji · 11/01/2019 09:37

Up to 10. All DS, but one of me and dad and another with parents and siblings.

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