Is it tacky to display DC's artwork

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In the kitchen?

DH says it is, as I have them on on wall,fridge and one cupboard.

Is it tacky?

I remember watching an awful prog with Anthea Turner trying to turn domestic slatterns into goddesses...at one point she told one woman that she shouldn't have any of her kids' pictures displayed anywhere except their bedrooms.

Pardon me, but isn't it the children's home as well as the adults'? Blimmin' loon.

Rhonda - we certainly don't put everything on display; just the stuff that wins international art prizes .

Not tacky, imho.

It's not tacky, however I am often a bit when preschool and nursery insist on giving me each and every piece of artwork DD2 does - even if it consists of a single line scribbled on a massive piece of card.

And, honest, it's not the sort of thing any of us would want to keep for posterity. And I never really know what to do with it, so sometimes, ocassionally I throw it in the recycling bin.

I had loads on kitchen cupboards but now put them on sitting room door, in the corner, can be seen but out the way, great place for the glue to dry and shows they are valued, my dd takes great pride in doing work to go on the door and actually looks tidier than on kitchen cupboards tho i still have a few on there.

Puppy I have been known to do the same. We too get the one lonely squiggle on a massive piece of paper

DD brought home her paper mache (sp) Easter egg today & that has taken pride of place in the dining table as a centre piece

NO! I have an 'art gallery' im my hallway where I stick up my DCs artwork and regularly change it. Friends and family always stop to admire look at it.

Infact I have bags and bags of stuff that they have done that I can't bare to throw away..........

When dd was 3, her dad took all her xmas decorations off the tree because they were "crap"
When he went to work, I took the replacement stuff off the tree, put it in the bin and put dds stuff back.
Needless to say, he is my ex now

NO! I have an 'art gallery' im my hallway where I stick up my DCs artwork and regularly change it. Friends and family always stop to admire look at it.

Infact I have bags and bags of stuff that they have done that I can't bear to throw away..........

at Anthea Turner! Silly woman.

And at monoid's ex.

TBH I don't keep everything, I can tell the difference between "I'm just randomly scribbling" and "I'm drawing a picture for my mummy and daddy".

Our kitchen walls are also covered in artwork. Not tacky at all IMO.

DD came home with ALL of her first year's Reception class work last summer (3 massive folders worth). I've kept the lot. If I carry on like this, we'll need a bigger house

And we also get a weekly solitary scribble or two on a huge piece of paper from DS (aged 2) via nursery. I keep most of them too. I am a hoarder, what can I say?

I do find it very difficult to throw out anything they have obviously spent time on and are proud of - but my house isnt huge!!

I have discovered the answer.

This is the reason for GRANDPARENTS.

And they seem to have a higher tolerance level for displaying unmatching items than I do!!

I saw that Anthea Turner programme. She made this poor slattern take all her DC's artwork down and IIRC she then took a photo so she could store it on the computer.

It confirmed to me that Anthea is a strange woman indeed.

Sorry not enough time to read whole thread - but definitely not tacky. We bought a bunch of cheap frames from Ikea and have hung them all over the wall.

Your LO's come home from nursery or wherever proud as punch with their little pieces of art - and my 3 year old beams all over her face when I suggest she chooses one to go on the wall.

In a lot of ways it makes life easier - as she accepts that only the ones she feels are most special get displayed, and therefore doesn't kick off when she finds the rest of them in the recycling bin a safe place for posterity.

I was terrifically tacky! A house is for living in and it gave me a lot of pleasure to have it on the wall. I still have it in the loft-and am rather sad that they are too old.

i get the best ones and laminate them. then they can be used as placemats for the dc and their friends.

also if you laminate them they dont get ruiened with steam from cooking, and stay nice and flat.

I think my childrens' work is lovely!

I have 5 beautiful butterflies on my lounge room door and various collages on the kitchen wall, 2 calendars - one from each of the older 2, both displaying hand prints and THE hand print poem and a couple of smaller things on the fridge.

Must say, the autumn leaf collage was a bit of a pain withits flaking and crumbling but that one has been put away now.

Am waiting for THE piece of work to appear as I have a frame on standby.

DS1 is quite a quiet chap, not terribly confident, but beams when I put his stuff up.

That's another advantage of actually framing them - collages don't drop bits everywhere

I recycle quite a lot of what comes home from school and randown scribbles, but have a file FULL and a drawer FULL of her masterpieces. I recycle it while she is in bed after many tantrums about it!

But I do love my kitchen art gallery. Also put award/achievement certificates up there too and it makes her, and me, so proud. Whoever said, its your childs home too - that is an excellent point which some people forget i think. So OP carry on being "tacky" and tell your partner to bugger off!!

Erm, we have a wall between the kitchen and dining area reserved for The Cubs crap I mean art work so no, not tacky.

Putting a frame on it or taking pictures for slides to bore other people senseless is tacky.

QueenOfTackTiggaxx

If this was anyone outside your family, it would be easier to laugh and ignore them. Even if it was tacky (which it isn't), who cares what they think?

As it's your DP, might be worth asking what else he would regard as tacky: displaying cups, prizes and certificates your DC win if/when that happens too? Is praising them when they do something well tacky? Guess it would probably be tacky to praise him next time he does something really good, gets a new job or a pay rise or whatever.

ditto what zapostrophe said. I hate those massive portraits! my brother and his wife have five kids and it's tack-o-rama in their living room, faux oil painting portraits of each one!

I have stuff stuck up all over the kitchen and have actually framed (in the clipboard type Ikea thingies) a couple of piccies. I love having egg box spiders stuck on the door and paper cup jellyfish hanging off cupboards!

Just thinking back, I can't remember ever having any of my crap lovely artwork on show when I was little ....

I love love love the idea of using old artworks as wrapping paper. Brilliant. DC can choose which one for whom.

Its not tacky, of course not. The perennial problem is which ones to display and how to cull, kindly.

The Christmas decorations the DC have made the past few years are the most special and treasured in the Christmas box. I can't imagine a family Christmas without them firmly on display, and I am quite picky about it all looking stylish. I think the DCs stuff is stylish whatever as they did it.