How many framed photos do you have in your main living area? Who is in them? I ask because I’m redoing our shelves next to the fireplace. I notice we have pictures of our kids on tables, on the shelves, on the walls. I think it’s overkill. We don’t have anyone else. I’m not close to my family and don’t plan on putting up photos where I have to look at their mugs all the time. We might put some of DH’s. Don’t really feel like looking at MIL all the time either, but I’m not going to fight that battle.
None. We have one of our late dog.
None. We don’t display pictures of family members.
Another with none. I don’t display photos these days. I used to years ago but I’ve moved to clean, minimal surfaces. With social media and online photo storage, I can go look at photos whenever the desire strikes me.
I have a few. My parents, my grandmother, son, etc. the one with my grandmother shows her with my aunt and other ladies in France, all wearing hats and suits. My picture has me in my twenties, wearing a red and black jacket, near the top of a mountain. My other one with me shows our group of the 4 musketeers, one of whom died at age 51. These sit on shelves, so if I was selling my house, they could easily be moved. For now, they give me pleasure.
We have no photos in the living room or on the walls of the family room – just a few pieces of framed artwork.
We do have a few small family pics arranged along the wall-length fireplace mantel, interspersed with other items.
However, we do have a large family display of framed photos and other family items on the wall adjacent to the stairs to the upper level, and on the landing wall. These include our (non-traditional) marriage invitation with a photo, the kids’ birth announcements framed with photos, and pictures of the kids at various stages of their lives up through their engagement and wedding pictures.
Problem: no room remains for the (two so far) grandkids, so have to cull the collection to get them there.
I LOVE photos, but prefer some action interest in them rather than stiffly posed or plain portraits.
Our hall wall display gives me pleasure every day, and I enjoy sharing it with those guests who notice it.
We had a few school pictures of our kids on walls and tables as they were growing up. My youngest graduated HS 2 years ago. We just moved cross country in January, his graduation picture came down for the move and won’t be going back up. So, we have no people pics displayed now and probably won’t. Grandkids may or may not change that.
I have 9 on the walls of my family room. There are 5 (in a group) very old family pics - my great grandparents from late 1800’s and the whole family at their 50th wedding anniversary in 1934, my mom, her two sister and my grandparents from the same period. My dad and his parents, cousins in Newport RI around that same time and one of my sister & me at age 2 & 4. All are black & white and all in black picture frames.
I also have black & white pictures of H’s side of the family from a reunion when S was about 3, a picture of H I took while on a hike near a waterfall when we were dating, a caricature of S from an older cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, and a picture of the three of us from son’s graduation weekend - taken by a friend of S who is a fantastic photographer. S gave us this picture, beautifully framed, for a Hanukkah present.
We still have photos on our dressers and there are some family shots in an upstairs hal, but all that are in the family room are albums. There are 2 family photos from ski trips in the living room (a room we rarely go into) and DH has a few in his office (running pics with the family and a few others) but not in the family room.
In the living room…pics of kids on the piano and two side tables. None on walls.
In Family room. Pics of kids on sofa table and in bookshelf. None on fireplace or walls.
Bookshelf upstairs with all kid pics. Family member pics in den/Office bookshelf.
If someone doesn’t want to look at these pics of our kids…tough.
Have photos of the kids at varying ages all over the great room of our house, including a 3x4 foot framed photo of my family taken on our wedding day. Have a few other wedding photos of sisters and brothers.
4 total one of my grandmother & 2 aunts b&w from the 50s; 3 of my d at various ages 2, 18 & 21 - all are 5x7.
None. My parents have none, too.
Pictures kind of creep me out. I always feel like the people are looking at me.
We have a set of shelves on our living room wall (were there when we bought the house) where we have dozens of framed photos (sizes from small to 5x7). The wall they are on is behind any seating areas so we don’t stare at them when seated. I change the photos occasionally. I have some oldies (our parents when young) up through recent ones. The pictures include my parents, grandmother, my in-laws, myself, my husband, and my daughter (no relatives I don’t wish to look at or aren’t close to). A few of the ones of my daughter include some of her friends. Basically, that is the place with all of our family photos. People typically enjoy looking at them (asking who is that baby in the old fashioned stroller in that B&W photo - my MIL, etc.)
Everywhere. Kids and mine and my husbands family (mostly kids). Favorite vacation photos. Canvas family photos including my family (mother, siblings and their families) 65 people who gathered this past year for vacation. Collage of both my kids senior pictures. All ages. My kids with my husbands grandmother. My husbands parents both deceased. My parents, father deceased. I love them all. They are our life and I much prefer photos to random artwork. If someone else doesn’t like them, I don’t really care.
We have fewer things on the walls these days, but the framed pics of the kids at various ages still are up on the bookshelves, even though we had to move some books to a different location. All three baby pictures, all three HS senior pictures (even with water damage from a leak). Two group pictures that were father’s day gifts. One really cool “ancestors” photo in an ever cooler old school hand tooled wooden frame. Photos that my photographer daughter took also hold pride of place, although she’d be happy to let these high school efforts fade into memory.
And then there’s the “wall of shame” in the kitchen, with snapshots from vacations, high school pictures, scenes from important events in family history etc. That will come down when we redo the kitchen (THIS year, not next year, dh) but as cheesy as it is, everyone from service people to family members seems to like it.
We did remove the history timeline (which ran from Creation to my children as the end point of history) that had cartoonish images of people like Alexander the Great and Shakespeare from the staircase last year when we redecorated. This was an ongoing project when the kids were little and was a totally uncool and unaesthetic addition to the house that we all liked.
My home is all about framed pictures of the family. They’re all over the place, and I love it that way.
One photo of each of my sons, framed and sitting on a side table. When each son comes home, they quietly remove the picture of themselves and hide it. I find and put it back without saying a word. Over Christmas or Spring Break each picture may “disappear” 8 or 9 times. Neither the boys or I have ever said a word to each other about the disappearing pictures, but we all know the game is afoot.
None on the walls. In the living room I have bookshelves that flank a large picture window and window seat. I actually prefer NOT to have many books in them. There I do have some favorite photos - a couple “old tyme” pics, an 8x10 more contemporary senior photo frame of each of my three kids and some random others that were particularly memorable. So I have some but not oodles. But nothing hanging on the wall.
None. I don’t like to dwell on the past.