Should I bin my friend's art?

[Joyjazz]

My friend painted me a picture. The sentiment was lovely but I really hate it. It's not my taste and not in keeping with my house. I keep it behind the TV and hang it whenever she comes to visit so I don't hurt her feelings as she is really proud of this piece and spent many weeks making it. I'm moving to a new house and I don't want to be carrying things that I don't like or want to my new home. I want to take the frame and bin the actual painting. She's a good friend and she is likely to visit and possibly ask where the art is.

AIBU to put the painting in the bin?

Surely the fact that your very good friend painted you something should make the painting worth something? There is always a tucked away place you can put it. Stick it in the toilet if need be.

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I just watched this episode yesterday!

Think it needs an exorcism...

Hope your friend isn't a mumsnetter!

That's a sad take.

I sometimes give my art as gifts for people when I'm really low on money and can't afford to buy them something.

Ah ok. Duh, I fell for it. Never watched Friends!

Gosh, I'd just disappear it to the tip charity shop, not do any of this nonsense about hanging it in my bedroom or shoving it under a coffee table . If asked by arty friend I's say that it didn't really work in the sitting room and leave it at that. It's a gift, yours to do with what you wish, not an albatross round your neck.

How weird that your TV suddenly and inexplicably went on fire, but aren't you lucky that the only thing damaged was the painting?

This made me lol, thank you

My son, who is a professional illustrator, gifted me a piece of his artwork for Mother's Day which had been in a recent exhibition.

I don't like it and it's really not my taste but I treasure it because it's from him. I have found an unobtrusive place to display it and comfort myself that when he's rich and famous and it's worth millions it won't be too much of a wrench to sell it 😂😂😂

If you care about your friend then you just put it in the spare room or something. Your friend actually painted it for you and surely that's what's important?
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Took the words right out of my mouth.

You cant really bin it. Hang it in the spare room or say it got lost in the move, or say a visitor admired it and wanted it so you gave it to them. An old lady who didn't have much.

Do u have a downstairs loo or utility room it could go in?

I l outing disagree more. I love it. But though I've received many things that aren't my style and haven't kept them all I love the sentiment and prefer it to just stuff tbh.

Offer to give it back to her. Most artists would prefer to have their work back than thrown away. I would.

I was just thinking about this😂

OP, I don't think I could bin the painting if a friend had put a lot of time and effort in to making me something they thought I'd love. I think I'd just put up with the faff of putting the picture out every time she comes, assuming she's not over every day!
If you want to use the frame for something else you can always put the gift picture in a different one and say you thought it looked nicer in there etc etc.

You could say the eyes started blinking so you sprinkled holy water on it

Your friend went to all the effort of making you something with love and you have nowhere to make a home for it. Not even a spare room?

Stick it in the toilet if need be.

That's even more disrespectful than just binning it and it will take a lot of flushes to fully go!

I think you would be justified in saying you had a terrible nightmare where it came alive and you were so freaked out you've decided to take it down for a bit.

Oh God, this is my nightmare.

SIL is an "artist" and we used to live in terror of being given one of her masterpieces. Luckily she hates us, so I don't think it'll happen. Must make sure we don't accidentally reconcile.

That picture is quite terrifying. A bit Death Becomes Her. Could you construct a kind of double sided frame so you turn creepy woman outwards when your artistic friend visits?

All the gifts that aren’t to my taste are go straight to my office, which is a no go zone for visitors, a.k.a. secretly in a box in the loft. What the eye can’t see the heart can’t grieve for.

For the rest of your lives you need to say that you have firm boundaries and can never forgive her for whatever she did. If you can’t think any something she’s done you will find loads of inspiration on AIBU.

I would keep it, probably in a cupboard, but tell her I was rotating my pictures if she ever asked about it.

She’s mine, no no she’s mine!!!!