Family pictures around house

[Anonymous]

Hello, I admit I’ve been behind for years on putting up our family pictures. We’ve been in our house for 6months and need to put up our decor (with little kids I don’t always have time to get out fragile things).

I’m about to get this all done, and besides realizing our decor is outdated… I realize we have gorgeous pictures to put up.

How much can I do throw without going overboard?? (This is my real question, I tend to get into stuff once I get started.)

[Anonymous]

The word “throw” was extra. It must have come from autocorrect.

[Anonymous]

I do not get the appeal of looking at photos of people that you see everyday in the flesh right in front of you.

[Anonymous]

The answer is personal. Go to the library and check out interior design books by designers you like. Look at how many family photos they have in their client’s home. That’s the right number for you. Personally, I put a few in each room—no more than three. All are 6 x 8 or smaller. Others will have different answers.

[Anonymous]

Ignore the sociopath PP and get a variety of frames, sizes, and periods of the family life. We do mainly events of vacations and not just portraits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer is personal. Go to the library and check out interior design books by designers you like. Look at how many family photos they have in their client’s home. That’s the right number for you. Personally, I put a few in each room—no more than three. All are 6 x 8 or smaller. Others will have different answers.

I like the idea of smaller pictures.

I like one larger in the house (but just the one). And thinking about Nancy Meyers sets, or QEIIs zoom backgrounds, there are usually smaller frames across tops of low shelves. Thank you both for these starting ideas.
-OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is personal. Go to the library and check out interior design books by designers you like. Look at how many family photos they have in their client’s home. That’s the right number for you. Personally, I put a few in each room—no more than three. All are 6 x 8 or smaller. Others will have different answers.

I like the idea of smaller pictures.

I like one larger in the house (but just the one). And thinking about Nancy Meyers sets, or QEIIs zoom backgrounds, there are usually smaller frames across tops of low shelves. Thank you both for these starting ideas.
-OP

Kind of in this vein, I have in my living room a wall of tall bookcases with glass doors. On the eye-level shelves all the way across I display family pictures. Range of sizes and frames, includes old B&W of grandparents up to recent favorites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not get the appeal of looking at photos of people that you see everyday in the flesh right in front of you.

I agree with this, and especially dislike the look of seeing professional family photos in large sizes around a house. I do like to have a few casual, small sized family photos around (although none on a wall) and photos of family members who don’t live with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not get the appeal of looking at photos of people that you see everyday in the flesh right in front of you.

I guess your kids aren’t as stunningly beautiful as mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not get the appeal of looking at photos of people that you see everyday in the flesh right in front of you.

I guess your kids aren’t as stunningly beautiful as mine.

I guess you do not travel, go to museums, have hobbies or anything else in your life except your kids.

[Anonymous]

I’m working on this now. I printed a bunch of the artifact uprising wall tiles for less formal photos, and a few larger prints from weddings and trips. Trying to a mix of us along with friends and extended family. I also like Gretchen Rubin’s idea of having some holiday-themes frames that come out once a year, but haven’t executed that yet.

[Anonymous]

I like to put family pictures in the family space - so other than a few small ones in the LR shelves, most of our family pictures are upstairs in the hallway or in bedrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not get the appeal of looking at photos of people that you see everyday in the flesh right in front of you.

I agree with this, and especially dislike the look of seeing professional family photos in large sizes around a house. I do like to have a few casual, small sized family photos around (although none on a wall) and photos of family members who don’t live with us.

We still talk about a house that we looked at that had huge (like bigger than life sized) portraits of the family covering every wall in every room of the house. It was amazing. There was even one room that had a stack of pictures leaning against the wall, as in maybe they had actually taken a bunch down? Or maybe they rotated them? So much for “depersonalizing” a house for sale.

I don’t have any bigger than 5x8”, and most are on shelves in the study. I have a collage of old black and white photos in a niche in my bedroom.

But, OP, do what you want.