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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?

OP posts:
BadLad · 19/01/2022 22:35

I have a few of my wife in the mancave, but that's it.

Sometimes we have an evening of looking through the photo albums, digital or physical.

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/01/2022 22:38

I have frames waiting to be filled from when dd1 was a baby. And an album. She's now 5. I will get round to it eventually.

Lolalovesmarmite · 19/01/2022 22:40

We have lots of photos of us and the children up in the bedrooms and just a couple downstairs. I used to think it was a bit naff but the children love looking at them and talking about them. I also think that if anything ever happened to my husband or I unexpectedly, it would be a bit of a comfort to the children to be surrounded by photos of us together in their rooms.

seekinglondonlife · 19/01/2022 22:55

As a teen a close friend had a house that the walls were literally full of family photos. They were all very natural ones, in mismatched frames with a mix of black and white, sepia and colour. Lots of different sizes too. I swore I was going to have a house like this when I was grown up, I literally could have spent hours just looking at her photos and felt I really knew her childhood. I have zero photos up now, I'm in a rental and am not allowed to put things on walls. I get regular photo books made though and we look to look at them.
A friend gets lots of large canvasses and photo tiles made and they look really tacky IMO. Hate seeing large photos of wedding days too displayed over the mantelpiece!

Alayalaya · 19/01/2022 22:59

Not really. I think it looks a bit tacky. You never see show homes or houses in magazines with photos on display, do you.

Cameleongirl · 19/01/2022 23:01

@seekinglondonlife Speaking of large canvasses, one of DH's sisters got a blanket made for their parents featuring family photos. It sounded hideous to me, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I just sent her a photo to add to it. It's purple velour covered with these enormous photos on it. As long as she doesn't order one for us. Grin

arghdilema · 19/01/2022 23:03

I have a small selection on a sideboard. A picture from our wedding and some of the DC, all in matching frames. I don't like wall canvases though or much of my walls in general.

KO81 · 19/01/2022 23:04

My in laws are constantly giving us photos of themselves. I long to scream STOP IT, FOR LOVE OF GOD STOP! We don’t bloody want them! I’ve got magnets, cushions, three mugs and scores of fucking framed prints of them and their kids.

Cameleongirl · 19/01/2022 23:08

@KO81 I can't imagine someone's face grinning up at me from a cushion. Grin We do have a few mugs featuring cute photos of the children when they were little.

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/01/2022 23:09

Ah yes me,dh and dd1 are on a mug. We need to try and get a pic of the 4 of us now for a new mug lol.

draramallama · 19/01/2022 23:10

@Alayalaya

Not really. I think it looks a bit tacky. You never see show homes or houses in magazines with photos on display, do you.
What, like of the construction company staff on team building picnics together?

They want people to imagine themselves living in a property so they'll buy it. People don't do that so well if there are pictures of strangers all over the walls.

I think it's weird to take a marketing technique as some sort of lifestyle rule.

KO81 · 19/01/2022 23:13

[quote Cameleongirl]@KO81 I can't imagine someone's face grinning up at me from a cushion. Grin We do have a few mugs featuring cute photos of the children when they were little.[/quote]
Oh the cushion is a tiled affair featuring a selection of 16 photos of them on various dog walks. The poor quality of the print has reduced them to impressionist daubs in cagoules. 😳

Northernsoullover · 19/01/2022 23:14

No. I think its a bit naff personally. I do like printing photos and looking at them but I wouldn't want them on my wall.

Cameleongirl · 19/01/2022 23:18

@KO81 That's hysterical! The sad thing is, they must've have put some thought into the design and probably think it's a lovely gift!

Smallkeys · 19/01/2022 23:20

We have a few of DC but I really don’t like this professional canvas white background family shots that everyone was mad for a number of years back was it something like Athena ? .

KO81 · 19/01/2022 23:23

[quote Cameleongirl]@KO81 That's hysterical! The sad thing is, they must've have put some thought into the design and probably think it's a lovely gift![/quote]
You’re probably right. But I also think they’re utterly obsessed with their kids and can’t compute that I’m not over the sodding moon at being presented with a selection of four identical magnets of the kids’ school photos. I don’t have anywhere to put these magnets as my fridge is integrated and has a wooden door. I suppose I could stick them to my kettle but the poor production quality of them would probably lead to the children’s faces melting during the near/constant boiling of my kettle, and that probably sends out quite the wrong message. 😐

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 19/01/2022 23:27

Jackie Goodman loves a good 'barefoot and white t-shirt' family photoshoot. Grin

Do you put photos up of your family or yourself in your house?
ParkheadParadise · 19/01/2022 23:28

I have lots of photos around the house.
I have a large collage of photos on the wall in the kitchen/diner.
Wedding photo in the hall. Several photos of Dd1 & Dd2 around the house.
I have a favourite photo of me and Dd1 taken before she died on my bedside table I have the same photo in my purse.

Davros · 19/01/2022 23:37

No

johndglynn · 19/01/2022 23:39

I'm a photographer and have some of my work up but nothing of the kids: there's one favourite of each of my daughters as youngsters and that's it. The rest is art (some being their work) that I strongly connect with.

We eat and chill out together every night so I see living images daily. Much nicer 🥰

RealBecca · 19/01/2022 23:39

You can like what you like but gifting photos, especially of yourself/kids in frames, is a hard no. Unless it's to grandparents. Noone else is that likely to appreciate it x

Sheabutterisdelish · 20/01/2022 04:26

Alayalaya

Not really. I think it looks a bit tacky. You never see show homes or houses in magazines with photos on display, do you.

Well you wouldn't would you, that would be very odd Hmm

rrhuth · 20/01/2022 04:32

No, photos in albums here.

I've a friend who has big canvases with super sized faces and they make me feel nervous, like they might eat me.

WitchWithoutChips · 20/01/2022 06:27

@Alayalaya

Not really. I think it looks a bit tacky. You never see show homes or houses in magazines with photos on display, do you.
Well, you do in ‘real homes’ features in magazines although they’re usually photographed carefully for privacy reasons. Show homes don’t have anything personal to encourage you to project your own identity as you imagine living there. Using them as a benchmark for a stylish family home is a bit like trying to make your living room look like a branch of John Lewis.
thegreenlight · 20/01/2022 06:41

I used to think that photos on display were the height of naff. Then I had children! I HATE school phots but love ones that spark a memory. Lots of the ones I have are from the back with the children on the beach or at a special place so it’s like I’m there with them again.