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Do you put photos up of your family or yourself in your house?

204 replies

ecoanxiety · 19/01/2022 17:07

I do! I'm obsessed! I love walking round looking at all the good memories. I always scour the charity shops for more frames!
But I never used to, I think it was because I never had time to get photos printed but you can do it online now.
I have noticed my parents never had our photos up though. I have given framed photos to family before of us all having a nice day out, some put them up but some don't and I was wondering if I committed some kind of faux pas giving photos for other people? What would you think?
I wouldn't gift wall art because I think that's a bit off but a photo I didn't think think was the same category.
Aibu?

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Farrandau · 19/01/2022 19:20

@GrandDuchessRomanov

Not a single one. We have just one from our wedding which is in a cupboard somewhere but other than that I don’t possess a single family photo from my past or present.

I am living another life now and hate reminders of the first one (blissfully happy as it was and so is this second life) but I loathe and have no desire to document how different they are.

Combined with your username, @GrandDuchessRomanov, this suggests enticing mysteries, past glories, reversals of fortune etc.

(Though admittedly not a blissfully happy second life…)

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 19/01/2022 19:25

I prefer photos in stand up frames. Not a massive fan of photos on the wall. Looks a bit naff.

CreativeCharlie · 19/01/2022 19:27

None on walls, much prefer artwork. I have 6 standing framed ones dotted around the house.

I would never gift a photo in a frame.

Fangdrew · 19/01/2022 19:29

My parents never did either! Only just realised this (80s kid).

We have nice mismatching frames on the mantlepiece and will have them on the wall up the stairs when we finally get round to it. I like to be able to change the photos so they reflect where we are now, which is why I’m really not a fan of wall art of photoshoots ect. Just personal preference I suppose.

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 19/01/2022 19:32

No professional pics or anything, but we have a wall of family snaps - all quite natural fun pics. Upstairs though, so not in visitors faces. Apart from that a few wider family snaps dotted about in frames.

scrivette · 19/01/2022 19:33

I have loads! On windowsills, shelves and walls, I love them, mostly of the children with the odd fee of wider family, DH and I. Both my parents and my PIL have loads of photos displayed so I would find it more unusual not to.

MyQuietPlace · 19/01/2022 19:34

I've got quite a few family photos on the wall - the grandkids at different ages, etc. I'm on 1 photo, which is me with husband and 2 sons, which I particularly like. I've got pictures of my cats too

1forAll74 · 19/01/2022 19:40

i have quite a lot of family photo's up, but they are all displayed on four shelves,at on one side of my fireplace. They are just my memories from over the years, as in my son and daughter at different ages over the years, My late Mum and Dad. There are only about two frames, with me in them.

The one that some people might find odd, is a photo of my late ex husband, taken on his wedding day years ago, he remarried three years after we divorced, and he looks good in this photo, but it was a photo showing just him and no new wife on it.. His marriage was not that successful, and he and wife separated after about 10 years,, but we had decided to stay good friends after we had divorced, which we did, until he died 7 years ago.

He used to laugh when he saw this second marriage photo of him on my shelf when he came to visit.!

Lastater · 19/01/2022 19:43

Nope, prefer art instead.

Kartoffelnpie · 19/01/2022 19:44

We have quite a few of the children. My in laws have none at all, which I think is really weird.

BeaLola · 19/01/2022 19:52

I only have in frames on windowsills or office - 99% are of DS !

Saying that we have one of our wedding on small table in lounge and I have 1 of my late mum and I in study and 1 just of my Mum next to my bed

DH has a photo of Ds and a small one of me looking much younger next to his bed

My Dad has several photos of his parents and my brother & I in his house - he also has 2 of DS proudly displayed - eg next to where he watches tv !

GTAlogic · 19/01/2022 19:54

I grew up in a house where all sorts of photos, paintings and odd pictures were on the wall. There was at least 1 thing on each wall in the house; some walls had up to 3 or 4 things.

Photography is my hobby so we have quite a few of my photos on display on the walls and in other places. Some photos are of local places of interest but most are of my dc or montages of us all as a family. There are a couple of me on my own and of dh and me together too.

OfstedOffred · 19/01/2022 19:58

A small wedding photo of DH and I in our bedroom. In the hall theres a frame of each child with 4 pictures in but not terribly posted etc just family snaps

I have a small picture of my grandmother in a frame on the bookcase in the sitting room.

Nothing bigger than a 5x7 print

Sheabutterisdelish · 19/01/2022 20:00

Love photos everywhere, love looking at them in other people's houses too, all that history captured in time, I find it quite incredible that we can actually do that

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 19/01/2022 20:00

@1forAll74 , I think that's really lovely. Funny about the background to the particular photo you chose though Grin

gluenotsoup · 19/01/2022 20:00

Yes, quite a few! I didn’t have any, and neither did my parents, so maybe it’s a generational thing, but I see it now as the best bits of my life, and I want to see them! They are mostly just snaps really, but capture something- an expression, a special memory, a stolen moment. A couple are professional from when the dc were red, wriggling littlies but even they captured the essence, and I just couldn’t. There are a few on the odd long wall but mostly here and there on shelves, piano, sideboard. And I love them, they make me happy 💕

VestaTilley · 19/01/2022 20:15

Pictures of DS and one of DH and me in our bedroom.

Picture of baby DS, and one of me and DH on our wedding day, in our sitting room.

A picture of the three of us at DS’s christening in DS’s bedroom. That’s it for family pics up, but I expect we’ll add to it down the years/if we have any more children.

I’d like to ensure we have one each up of our parents and our grandparents, but just haven’t got round to it yet.

I wouldn’t have LOADS, but it’s your house, have what you like. I wouldn’t give them to other people though, apart from one off special ones from DS’s baby photo session.

GTAlogic · 19/01/2022 20:16

I'm thinking of filling up the wall at the bottom of the stairs with loads of photos of mixed sizes, styles and subjects. I would use black frames from B&Ms: cheap but good.

I have given framed photos to others because they've asked for them.

I have also sold some of my framed and mounted photos so they're probably on other people's walls too!

reluctantbrit · 19/01/2022 20:23

We have a 2-3 frames around, mainly with photos with DD in it plus one family one.

But, we have a digital photo frame and three collage frames. Two are with photos of important milestones, our childhood, wedding, important holidays, DD's first day at school.

The third one is changed every 2 years or so with photos of us all with various holidays and days out.

I hate having frames everywhere as I see them as dustcatchers. But on the wall it's ok in small amounts.

VelvetChairGirl · 19/01/2022 20:25

the only things I have up in the flat are two jojos bizarre adventure posters.

Simonjt · 19/01/2022 21:07

Yes, we have a large corkboard full of photos, but also full of other things like the receipt from our first date etc. My son has a few photos in his room, sometimes we can hear him talking to his photo of his grandma, very cute.

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ecoanxiety · 19/01/2022 21:46

Wow I am surprised people think photos are naff or twee when displayed.
I love mismatched frames and have them all over the walls and on shelves.

I wouldn't have them in the bedroom though. I did have a few but they were quickly taken downstairs for they saw too much Blush

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Hankunamatata · 19/01/2022 22:02

I don't. It was flagged by social worker - I have disabled kids. Thought it was a bit weird as just didnt have every to print photos and get frames

ponkydonkey · 19/01/2022 22:08

I have a few framed photos of close family members.. and school photos of kids

A few great ones from my younger years! When we had cameras 😬

Definitely do not go in for those photo shoot ones...

Strokethefurrywall · 19/01/2022 22:25

Loads, of family and friends. I grew up in a close family home with loads of photos both in frames, on walls and in albums and I love looking back thru them when I’m in the UK.

Brings back so many fantastic memories of a life well lived for me.