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How many photos you have on display?.

124 replies

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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OnlyFoolsnMothers · 11/01/2019 19:18

Zero- I make a point of printing off pictures of DD and making the odd album but nothing on display (too small a house!)

Bumblebee39 · 11/01/2019 19:23

Two nice big-ish ones that get changed regularly

A few other little ones tucked away on book shelves and/or in bedrooms

I'm not a big one for ostentatious picture hanging, I tend to stick to art work in the house as find all those people looking at me a bit unnerving

I do take and keep many photos so maybe I should display more of them

itbemay · 11/01/2019 20:18

None in front lounge, one in a frame in back room, 2 small ones in dining room, multiframe of 8 in hall and one in bedroom.

ShinyMe · 11/01/2019 20:26

I have 4 of my old (now dead) cat, one of my old (now dead) childhood dog, one of my dead grandmother, one of my mum with her old (now dead) dog, one of my current cat, and one of me with my dad. Oh, and I have one of my great great grandmother with her 11 brothers and sisters and their parents, because it's a beautiful photo.

Willbeatjanuaryblues · 11/01/2019 20:28

Lots I love photos and try and put them up where the background is nice enough without the human in it.

I find I go by them after a while without ever looking then one day one will catch my eye and will make me so happy remembering the memory...

CMOTDibbler · 11/01/2019 20:29

4 in my office, 1 in our bedroom

n0ne · 11/01/2019 20:29

Zero. I'm always a bit ashamed when I go to other people's houses and see family pictures on show - it just doesn't occur to me to display pictures, or even take them, half the time. My parents were total camera-dodgers so I suspect that's why.

mollyblack · 11/01/2019 20:31

None- I have loads of stuff on the walls, framed prints, walk hangings and plants etc but no photos.

mollyblack · 11/01/2019 20:31

*wall hanging 🙄

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 11/01/2019 20:38

That seems a lot, and I'm fond of a framed photo! We have 4 in living room, 4 in hall (though will hang lots more on the stair wall once it's been decorated, 4 in family room and 1 in our bedroom. 7 of the same photo shoot seems excessive to me. But I do understand how cute a toddler pfb is!

Drookit · 11/01/2019 20:43

I'm not big into photos around the house either. I've got four small ones in the living room. Two in frames on the walls and two behind other things on shelves.

Justgivemesomepeace · 11/01/2019 20:46
  1. My 2 kids and my niece. I've tons stuffed in cupboards but I don't like too much stuff around.
evaperonspoodle · 11/01/2019 20:46

None. I'm crap at dusting and I hate photo shoot type ones. I do have digital photo book things that I love to look through.

When we bought our house (the previous owner died) the house had been cleared of valuable s by the family but all of the personal possessions left which we had to dump. Loads of framed photos of grandchildren I presume, that were done in studios in the early 80's and very expensive at the time. It made me reassess printing off photos, who is going to want them after I die, and the thought of strangers gunning them is upsetting.

Celebelly · 11/01/2019 20:49

I don't think we have any! We do have two art prints of our dog though Grin

Oh DP has one of me in his office from before we moved in together. I don't know why he still has it now he can see me whenever he wants, but he's adamant he won't get rid of it!

katekat383 · 11/01/2019 20:49

Very few. I don’t like walls of photographs or indeed lots on surfaces. I particularly dislike wedding pics.
Would interfere with my decor style.

MaisyPops · 11/01/2019 20:52

None of us on the walls. Around 2 or 3 landscape photos from our travels.

We've got our wedding photo printed in a frame and one from a friend's wedding of the two of us also in a frame. Once we've decorated we're considering framing the one of all our wedding guests to go on the wall.

I'll also probably get flamed for this but I'm not a fan of family photo shoots for posed photos etc. Then again i also don't get the rise of couples going for photo shoots, bump photo shoots, engagement photography etc and find it really odd that I know some people who'll book themselves a photo shoot at a weekend, play dress up and have photos. I really don't like photo canvases as well, but then life would be boring if we all had the same tastes.

MaryShelley1818 · 11/01/2019 20:57

We’ve got quite a few.....

Kitchen - 1 framed piccie of our first family holiday on the window sill, a few stuck to the fridge, and a big plastic thing with pockets in with 40pics of DS in (20 each side). I gaze at this daily!! Lol.

Living room - 5 framed photos (2 x me and DH, 2 x Wedding pics, 1 x our first family selfie)

Hallway - a multiframe from me and DH first holiday to Iceland.

DS bedroom - framed photo of me and DS.

Office - a few loose pics!

We’ve just bought about 20 mixed vintage look frames to make a photo wall.

We’ve only been together a couple of years!! Lol

chipsnmayo · 11/01/2019 21:05

I think I have many (about 15), especially as I only have one child and I am single. All photos (normal standard size) are in the living room

  • Most photos are of daughter when she was little (she's 20 and probably none of her in the last 10 years), some with my parents / me but mostly single shots of her
  • Couple of photos of my dad
  • A photo of me and my siblings.

I've got this great big photo frame of DD (professional photographer) when she was about 7 sitting on the bookcase and tbh it needs to go. As lovely as she is it just looks a bit naff now - oversized, dated and staged.

ForTheSakeOfTheFox · 11/01/2019 21:17

3 in the living room - One of my grandmother, one of my daughter as a baby, and one of a family holiday with the in-laws
2 in the kitchen - One of my parents and sister, and one of my bridemaids
2 in our bedroom - A wedding photo, and a framed copy of my daughter's birth announcement.

I also have a nice one of my husband and the dog that I want to put up when we move next month.

elvis86 · 11/01/2019 21:31

MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals1 - I'd have to see to judge.

Like someone else said, I could imagine an isolated display of maybe black and white photos in the same dimensions and matching frames looking nice.

But mismatched family photos in mismatched frames, peppered with multiple shots from try-hard "professional shoots"..? 🤢🤢🤢

Xenia · 11/01/2019 22:00

Two - my grandparents' 1917 wedding and one of part of our family in the 90s that was in a magazine. I used to have more up but it just got out of hand and there was a lot of dusting and I decided I would rather be a bit more minimalist about it.

However people should do as they like. I have scanned all our photos this year going back to the 1890s but the children asked me to keep all the albums ( I would never get rid of the the very old ones of course but the 100 albums from 1978 to date of family snaps is quite a lot. They can divide up the phyiscal ones when I die.

SleepingStandingUp · 11/01/2019 22:13

That seems a lot
*5 on the windows sill, of DS and me and DH
*4 on the fireplace, scan photo, school photo and photo from 6 months shoot
*2 on fire, photo albums with photos of the front, one of wedding and one of DS
*5 on sideboard, family one, collection of engagement shoot, family shot, photos of DS
*3 collage on back wall of us, wedding and DS
*3 on bookcases of wedding and grandparents
*1 on other bookcase from holiday
*1 in rear window from 1 Yr photo shoot
*4 on top of bookcase, all grandparents weddings photos
*1 on side wall of bump alongside photo calendar
*7 on bookcase of various my family, DS and free makeover shot with DSis
*2 on side wall, both photo shoot canvas plus one large multishot one of DS and scenery
*3 frame in hallway of bump to 1 photoshoot
*1 top landing of wedding

Ok maybe I need a declutter....

7 of the same photo shoot seems excessive to me they are all different though, one in burning rocks and one perched high above the city etc. He just saved the world in his super hero cape!! . But I do understand how cute a toddler pfb is! exactly 🙈

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thereallifesaffy · 11/01/2019 22:38

About 15. All in our study on the same 'photo wall'. Weddings, graduations, black and white pics of parents, baby pics. They're there totally for us bc hardly anyone else goes in the study. I prefer paintings and prints and art stuff on public display.

Notso · 11/01/2019 23:17

One of my children, it's one I took of them from the back they were all sat on swings in the park in a rare moment of unity, and one of my sisters kids.
I'm not a fan of loads of photographs displayed I think it looks a bit shriny and I absolutely can't stand posed or photoshoot type pictures.
Those awful naked baby ones make my toes curl.
My wedding pictures that we paid for because everyone said we'd regret not getting them professionally done are all still on a disc over ten years on. We've never printed any out.

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