How many photos you have on display?.

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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...

We have a collage of our wedding photos in the dining room, one family photo un the kitchen, 11 in the sitting room (9 of them in a multi frame) and 3 on the landing. We are trying to declutter!

Have you thought about getting an electronic photo frame. That way you can display lots of pictures scrolling through so you dont need a million frames.

I only have one photo framed, one that I took of DD when she was teeny tiny, it sits on a bookshelf in our living room. I want my wall space for art, so family photos are just kept in albums on the shelves.

I think walls full of family photos look hideous.

Now I want one.

DS looks like a model anyway.

In the living room nine in frames on mantelpiece and shelves. In Hall one multiframe with about seven pictures on wall, same in playroom. Two or three framed photos on window sill in conservatory. Two or three framed photos on bedside tables in bedroom.

None.

It's not something I've ever done. All my photos are kept in a box and when I'm feeling nostalgic I look through them. Recent pics are on phone/computers.

My daughter has a multiple picture frame thing in her bedroom and she has a few pics in that - but we don't have them anywhere else in the house.

Never really thought about it before, but like I say, I've just never had photos around the place and I'm not about to start.

We have a very big hallway and one wall is framed photos, my parents wedding photo, baby pictures of my DC, graduation pics etc. All in dark frames. Probably about 20 in there now, I love my wall. Lots of visitors stop and look at them and ask about them, friends of adult DCs seem to really like them too.

On a shelf in the living room:
2 6x8 wedding photos
1 photo of DH's family
1 photo my mum (deceased)
1 photo my dad (deceased)
1 photo of us looking cute on holiday
I did have more but DH wasn't keen
Bedroom:
2 small wedding pictures in very pretty frames

We used to have a wall in a previous property which had about 50 pictures in clip frames. One of them was a black and white picture of us on our wedding day and when we were selling the flat, the small daughter of a couple viewing pointed at it and said "ooh! a princess!". I was delighted, especially as it wasn't a remotely princessy wedding dress.

I have a gallery wall of family photos - including my grandparents' wedding photo from the 1940s and pictures of their grandparents & great-grandparents dating back to the 1860s - stretching all the way down my stair-wall. I know for some on Mumsnet this is a true home-decor faux pas, but I'm unrepentant. I adored my mother who died far too young and she sadly never met her only grandchild. They're together on that wall. Sometimes, when I look up at it, it's as if I can momentarily pretend things are not quite the way they are.

I think this is actually an interesting question and has made me think about our situation and why we have what we have. We have probably 10 or so framed photos in the sitting room and bedroom but have lots of other framed photos that are sitting in a box from when we moved. Why are those not out? A mix of reasons from dated frames, too much clutter, laziness, friendships that have moved on etc.
We also have a wall on the landing which sounds quite like the one Therightside has, which I love (all black and white with black frames, grandparents, even great grandparents, our children, friends, some formal, some less formal). But I would never have the photo wall downstairs - it’s in a semi-private family space, for us to enjoy. It says a lot about us as a family, but nothing that we need to declare to anyone else. But why not?
Most interior decoration is to do with personal taste and dare I say it, class, but this is also to do with identity and a sense of self. Can’t you tell I am an academic

Loads. All over the house, in the living room, one big one wedding one, loads of other smaller wedding ones and other miscellaneous ones on the dresser, some in the hall, a few big ones as you go up the stairs, in the bedrooms. Utterly shameless

One huge one of the dog.

Dogs photograph beautifully, we don't

Down our long hallway from the front door we have about a dozen A4 canvases, one each from some "big moments" - first holiday, engagement, wedding, honeymoon, newborn of DS, first Christmas with DS, etc. One photo is enough for me to trigger the memory of nice moments/events, and then I can always go and find the rest of the photos from that time if I want more. I don't have the space and can't be bothered to have multiple photos from the same shoot on the wall.

Ten frames prints on multiple surfaces and fire mantle etc in main living room and then one big collage thing in downstairs loo. None on the walls or other rooms. Lots of pictures, but they are not photos of us.

We have two pics on the mantelpiece. That's about it.

None.

None. I also find they look so untidy and clutters up any area. I do have photo books though neatly set aside.

We have a large canvas in our living room that is printed to look like a photo collage, it has 60 or so photos. It's from Black Sheep Design and I love it, will likely get a new one in a year or so. We also do an annual display for lost loved ones in this room which includes several photos on display - they aren't up right now, but the space remains cleared for them.

Up the stairs on the wall, we have previous collages, two smaller ones - one put together by a photography studio and one I think I put together on photobox or something and framed, and another large Black Sheep Design one.

We also have some framed on the landing. We're getting some multiframes that will go there soon with photos of extended family and my spouse when he was little from my late-MIL's home. I don't have photos on display elsewhere in the house.

We also have an old photo album with the few childhood photos I have - I've no desire to display them or see them regularly for many of the reasons jellyelly said and more, but they're pretty much all I have left of me as a child and I get it out time to time to show the kids, so it remains in its hiding place. We have quite a few albums of our own photos (which reminds me, I need to finish the chatbook for 2018) so we can look at them up close and has quite a few that aren't on the walls. Along with art, world map, and other things on the wall and some in storage that needs reframed and drawings my kids have blue tacked all over.

I've never heard the mantra of 'walls are for art and that photos of people should be in frames rested on surfaces'. Personally, like both my meticulous grandparents and my hoardy grandparents, I enjoy having my wall and hall of photos. Bit of cheer and fun and - having memory loss issues - I've found the recommendation to view them regularly which I can do more easily on the walls has helped. Most of the surfaces are used officially or unofficially in many ways that I find photos there tend to get hidden behind things (may have gotten more tendencies from the hoarding side than the meticulous side ).

I don't need pictures of people I know and love to remind me that I know and love them
Really? I always looks at the e yo and think who are you awful beastie then look at the wall and think ah, my darling PFB who I love 😕 😂

these box frames where you can just pile the pages, which look tidier than piling crap art on the fridge oh god I need this, nursery think they're my art dealer!!

I also don't like professional photos but he's dressed as a superhero standing on a pile of twisted metal whilst the city he saved burns behind him!! 😂 😂

family photographs up to be really tacky, but each to their own! Much prefer artwork he's is so gorgeous he IS like a piece of art though 😂 that's ok, I know propel think it's naff / common etc. I don't really care about being thought of as either. I do have some art uo but DH vetoed all my cool paintings when we commenced cohabitation

I wouldn’t frame more than 1 from the same shoot or roughly time period though, if that makes sense.! yeah this is where I'm going wrong lol. DS is only 3.5, most of the photos are of him. I do think when he's a spotty teen who glares at the photo will I still have current ones of him 😂

We've made an arty installation on our living-room wall; we got 3 large multi-photo holders and filled it with all of our out-door/adventure-y photos and it looks epic & reminds us of good times! - there must be over 100 (normal small sized) photographs on that wall.
I find one large photo a bit creepy tbh.

I have a gallery wall of family photos
I think that sounds lovely

Most interior decoration is to do with personal taste and dare I say it, class, but this is also to do with identity and a sense of self I'm not convinced that simply getting rid of my photos would be enough to make me classy anyway 😂
I do think my living room screams "only chidk, PFB, kept nearly dying / being critically ill in the first 18 months!!"

Just as long as it's not of your family in a nudist camp, I think it's fine.

Not many. One of my amazing dad on horseback in India in the 40s, one of my lovely mum all glammed up in the living room. Big one in the hall of DS at his matriculation and one at his graduation in the bedroom. Small one of us as a family in the conservatory.

@elvis - you should see our photo wall, and your mind would be changed! It's the opposite of naff! #itsverytastefulthankyouverymuch
Also, a few people have mentioned canvas photos - I really really dislike these too. Now they really are naff. Even if they cost a lot of money.

these kind of frames are the ones I have in the kitchen.

I also got a pack in Ikea, cheap and cheerful!

They're lovely @Rosemarys !