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

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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?

My friend has huge canvases of her kids all over her front room - literally every bit of wall space. All from the same photoshoot too - I think it's bizarre and would've died if my mum had displayed our toothless mushes all over the lounge

We have next to no photos up in our house. I do feel like it looks like we live in an Air BNB though. I definitely would not gift someone a photo in a frame because I'm very fussy about decor and can't stand it when people give me even small things that I then have to display in my house, despite thinking they are ugly.

The main large wall in my hall is covered with photo tiles. I love them, I get a free one every month & have built them up. It's all family photos

No but I really want to. I have 4 photos of DC1 up on the walls downstairs. None of DC2 or our wedding as I just haven't got round to updating them. But I want to add more and I might just do that after this reminder

I only have a couple of photos in my house. What I really hate is when people send me photos as gifts or send me pictures their kids have drawn and expect me to want to put them up.

We have loads of photos (and framed art - it is possible to like both!)
Our home is filled with lovely memories, framed photos from our Wedding, our first holiday with DS, First trip to Disneyland, DS and DDs first holiday together and their first photo together, their nursery photo (beautiful natural smiley faces), mine and DHs first holiday together. I like to buy frames from trips/holidays to frame a photo from so our most recent is a CenterParcs Winter Wonderland frame with our family photo in. We have them on the kitchen windowsill, living room sideboard, mantelpiece and top of Kallax Unit, and one multi frame in the hall. DS (4) also has a multi frame from a CenterParcs visit but wants to replace some of the pics from our more recent visit as they have his baby sister on. He also has a beautiful b&w framed picture of me and him as a baby in his room. DH has a few framed pics on his desk too.
It's a very large Edwardian house so it can absorb quite a lot of stuff without looking cluttered.
Couldn't give a stuff what anyone else thinks, I look at our photos every day, they make me smile as they all capture such amazing memories and moments of happiness 😊

Well I'm another who doesn't like photos hanging on the wall. And yes, I think it often looks a bit naff. We all have different tastes. Who knew!

@Lasttraintolondon

I have some. People and places that make me happy.

I respect either approach, having photos or not, but to those judgey people who think photos are naff or tacky - putting up photos of people you love is about the most human thing you can do.

Indeed. I’d be fascinated to see some of the ‘art’ that pp are so keen on - because to me there is nothing naffer or tackier than a generic print chosen because it matches the decor of a room.

We have a wedding photo up, and sometimes I will get a picture if the dc when young and put it on the mantelpiece, but it’s rotated with different ornaments. Dh had small pictures of his parents in a frame after they passed away up for a while.

No large canvasses, school pictures etc.

Looking around the wall, the pictures were purchased on holiday, inherited from in-laws, and a graduation gift, plus one or two gifts.

We have a wall in our Study with framed family photos but none anywhere else.

Personally, I think it is naff to have family photos all around the house, especially in wooden frames on a mantlepiece!

Yes, we have very high ceilings and big wall spaces. I have a patch of wall in the living room and dining room which each have photos on, lots of frames. I also have some from my wedding in the bathroom, not ones with people in though, arty ones of like the table decorations and the flowers.

My kids and I had lots of adventures last summer and I want to set up a wall with pictures from those on to

Also got prints from some of my favourite local artists on the walls to, I don't like bare walls in this house the walls are just too big (not a stealth brag though I wish the ceilings were lower!)

School photos are up, and in the bedroom I’ve got a multi frame from some family photo shoots.

ILs have a carefully choreographed family display space; all the grandchildren must have the same sized photo, then a family photo of each group, and a wedding photo (I didn’t even have a wedding photographer, so they’ve just printed off a photo of theirs which I hate, but It Must Match), then photos of grandparents, etc.

Yes, loads. Family photos, holiday photos and photographs of my friends as well. They make me happy to see them dotted around the house.

I have several of our wedding photos up in large frames. Smaller photos of DC when small.

I have a few,I don't mind gifted photos if me/my family are in them. I have a sister in law who gifts photos of her daughter with santa for Christmas...can't wait to return the favour....

Yeah, I can't have photos in the bedroom either, though I've been considering putting up our wedding photos in there now that I've found them again. They're still in the print outs we got back then when printing photos wasn't as neat as now so I need to cut them down to frame size (that was nearly 20 years ago, so...).

We used to have more up, but since the move last summer, we've only put back up a few bits of art and 3 family photos: the canvas collage of photos we did a few years back, one family photo of my spouse's mother's family which was the last big gathering before his grandmother and mother died, and a collage that was in his parents house of photos of him and his siblings when they were little.

Everything else is still in/on a box with my spouse saying that we should do that and figure out what frames we need soon, but it always gets pushed down the ro-do list.

I'm happy for someone to give me a photo. I can either choose to put it in a frame if I really love it (but not on the wall of course), under a magnet on the fridge, or filed away in a drawer.

I don't want anyone giving me framed photos as gifts though, with the expectation I'll put it on display. Unless it's a portrait of me taken by Mario Testino.

I think I'm in the tacky category. I have a mix tile wall of favourite holiday photos and two of my favourite photos of the kids in frames on the mantle piece. I have birthday photos in the kitchen, first day of school photos in the downstairs loo, a wedding picture next to my bed and hiking pictures in the hall. I also have art, some original paintings and prints of my favourite artists. I don't mind a framed photo montage print but I don't like canvas. I wouldn't thank you for a framed photo of yourselves but I don't mind the odd photo card or Easter/Christmas card in the post.

I have some stand-up frames of family on the windowsill in my office, and one of dh and I on our wedding day on a dresser in the bedroom. I think it's a bit naff to have them in the 'public' rooms of the house, or on the walls.

Ours is a collection of 18th and early 19th century topographical engravings.

Not Athena.

I imagine vintage Athena in good condition is quite collectible these days.

@WitchWithoutChips

I imagine vintage Athena in good condition is quite collectible these days.

Maybe, but lived the 80s and have no desire to go back 😁

We have a couple of DC and one of all of us with grandparents, but small and discrete.

I find it really odd when people have lots of framed photos of themselves and the people they live with; it seems undignified somehow, like marking your territory by plastering yourselves all over the walls.

Photos up the stairs is even worse, like wannabe portraits but without the stately home! And cluttered unless you have a massive staircase.

Personally I find the professional photo shoot ones the cringiest, especially couple ones in the lounge, eg huge black and white canvas of the couple posed staring into each other’s eyes!

@TrickyD

This is one of those class signifiers much loved on MN.

Photos on walls = WC, photos in frames, preferably silver, standing around on furniture, = MC.

That’s what those saying. ‘Naff’ or ‘Tacky’ mean.

I think I said ‘twee’, and I hold to that, regardless of whether they’re black and white canvas enlargements of the family barefoot and romping in crisp white shirts on walls, or silver-framed weddings on the grand piano.

Or that other class signifier, the sporting triumph photos (Boat Club crew in OUBC fleeces, school rugger XI, Tris summiting Everest on his Gap Yah) displayed with joky self-deprecation in the downstairs loo both so everyone can see them and also see that you take here things very casually.