Do you display photos of your kids in your own home?

[Anonymous]

Decorating 101: Personalize the space.

[Anonymous]

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read on DCUM and that is saying a LOT! We do not have family photos hanging on the wall, however, we do have picture frames on bookshelves and the like. If other people do not have happy memories that they appreciate seeing in the comfort of their own home, then that is just sad. It has nothing to do with class!

[Anonymous]

These responses are funny.

We have a small place and lots of artwork (my parents own a gallery) on the wall. So we will have one, maybe two pictures on a bookshelf downstairs in our main living space. We'll save the bigger pictures for upstairs hall and bedroom. But DS is only one and he's the only child, so any time I see that picture downstairs I could just as easily look at him in "real life"! I can see when he gets older liking to have some earlier pictures around as memories.

Anyway, this is in contrast to friends of mine who also have a small place and in the room they entertain in, there were 3 big pictures of their daughter. An 11x13 and 2 8x10s. To me this was a little bit of overkill. But, to each his own!

[Anonymous]

I agree, this is funny (bc it is all a bunch of bunk, decorate how you want, and for once i think everyone on this thread basically agrees with that point). Two things to add. I think the class theory wrt photos in the home is discussed in Isabel Gillies's book Happens Every Day. Also, i have no photos of my DC in my home, bc i am too lazy to print them! I also have no photo albums. I am no class

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
i, personally, don't like kids photos as "art."

But what is art? Something you enjoy looking at, right?

Maybe her kids aren't enjoyable to look at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dont have room. That is why we only have a few photos up on the fridge. We love our kid but simply have other, more quality things to put up on the walls. It doesn't mean we dont love our kids or any other bizarre theory.

More quality things?! You might want to reconsider that viewpoint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree, this is funny (bc it is all a bunch of bunk, decorate how you want, and for once i think everyone on this thread basically agrees with that point).

Or perhaps no/few upper class people have responded yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I think the class theory wrt photos in the home is discussed in Isabel Gillies's book Happens Every Day.

Thanks for mentioning this. That book isn't where I first read about this, but does show that it's not something the OP made up. Perhaps if you have never heard of this and every home you've been to displays pictures everywhere, you just don't know people who are of that social class.

From: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101968700

We had been hauling all these pictures around with us in boxes... The other was because we were both pretty big WASPs and in our worlds it was looked down upon to have too many beautiful pictures of one's own family ostentatiously displayed in frames around the house. My mother said it was okay to have small framed pictures on your personal desk (she gets everything printed in 3 x 5), but anything more than that was showy and, as she would say, "too much."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea behind the photos/class thing was this- the lower your class, the closer the pictures are to the front door.

Lower class people will display pictures in the entryway/foyer of the home
Middle class people will display pictures in the living/"public" areas of the home
Upper class people will display pictures in the "private" areas of the home, such as in the bedroom, the hallways leading to bedrooms, or in photo albums, and decorate the public areas with what is traditionally considered artwork

That being said, there are many people who are very wealthy who hire the services of a custom portrait photographer. The work that the photographers produce is high quality, beautiful, and truly art, and these photographs are displayed in public living areas.

*I'm just reporting what I've read, so don't attack me for it if you disagree*

Who the hell made up this rule?

From reading the responses to the question about dreaming of moving away from the DC area, it must be someone from the Washington DC area who has too much education and culture to live anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea behind the photos/class thing was this- the lower your class, the closer the pictures are to the front door.

Lower class people will display pictures in the entryway/foyer of the home
Middle class people will display pictures in the living/"public" areas of the home
Upper class people will display pictures in the "private" areas of the home, such as in the bedroom, the hallways leading to bedrooms, or in photo albums, and decorate the public areas with what is traditionally considered artwork

That being said, there are many people who are very wealthy who hire the services of a custom portrait photographer. The work that the photographers produce is high quality, beautiful, and truly art, and these photographs are displayed in public living areas.

*I'm just reporting what I've read, so don't attack me for it if you disagree*

Wow. I learn something new on DCUM all the time. We displayed lots of photos before we even had a kid. I'd never heard of this supposed correlation. (No plans to change anything based on this, either.)

She's a troll. And does anyone here really believe that people today use terms like "upper class?" Yuck. I feel sorry for her, but she certainly has made a lot of people here second-guess their decorating decisions!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I think the class theory wrt photos in the home is discussed in Isabel Gillies's book Happens Every Day.

Thanks for mentioning this. That book isn't where I first read about this, but does show that it's not something the OP made up. Perhaps if you have never heard of this and every home you've been to displays pictures everywhere, you just don't know people who are of that social class.

From: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101968700

We had been hauling all these pictures around with us in boxes... The other was because we were both pretty big WASPs and in our worlds it was looked down upon to have too many beautiful pictures of one's own family ostentatiously displayed in frames around the house. My mother said it was okay to have small framed pictures on your personal desk (she gets everything printed in 3 x 5), but anything more than that was showy and, as she would say, "too much."

"too many" "ostentatiously" Well, this would be true for many things, not just displaying pictures of your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea behind the photos/class thing was this- the lower your class, the closer the pictures are to the front door.

Lower class people will display pictures in the entryway/foyer of the home
Middle class people will display pictures in the living/"public" areas of the home
Upper class people will display pictures in the "private" areas of the home, such as in the bedroom, the hallways leading to bedrooms, or in photo albums, and decorate the public areas with what is traditionally considered artwork

That being said, there are many people who are very wealthy who hire the services of a custom portrait photographer. The work that the photographers produce is high quality, beautiful, and truly art, and these photographs are displayed in public living areas.

*I'm just reporting what I've read, so don't attack me for it if you disagree*

Wow. I learn something new on DCUM all the time. We displayed lots of photos before we even had a kid. I'd never heard of this supposed correlation. (No plans to change anything based on this, either.)

She's a troll. And does anyone here really believe that people today use terms like "upper class?" Yuck. I feel sorry for her, but she certainly has made a lot of people here second-guess their decorating decisions!

Did you even read the part of my post in bold or do you just feel as if you are being personally put down and are reacting this way needlessly? I will mention it again- these are not my views, but rather me typing what I've read on the subject. And you asked who uses the term upper class? Well, sociologists do. This issue of photo displays by class is a sociological issue, and one that I find kinda interesting.

I guess you also missed where I said that you should display your photos however you want to without caring about what other people think. You really should read more carefully.

[Anonymous]

I love walking into my parents' house (where i grew up) and seeing tons of old photos of me and my siblings on the walls - my DC get a kick out of it, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i find this question extremely bizarre. who the hell doesn't display photos of their own children in THEIR OWN home??? seriously? peeps be fuckin crazy

LOL. This is the best response I have read on DCUM in a long time.

[Anonymous]

this whole thread is being driven by a troll.