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

[Anonymous]

Oh man - I'm low-class. Not because of my recliner couch or my cheap Ikea and Target furniture. But because my kids pictures are too close to the front door.

Might as well haul the old fridge out to the front yard and call it a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To each his own. Personally, I'm not big on photos as decoration. I love photo albums though. Just me I guess, but I only put pics of family in the bedroom.

Photo albums? + faux Ikea/hotel style acrylic/watercolour landscape painting prints are a perfect match. Time to evolve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man - I'm low-class. Not because of my recliner couch or my cheap Ikea and Target furniture. But because my kids pictures are too close to the front door.

Might as well haul the old fridge out to the front yard and call it a day.

[Anonymous]

You have to take pictures? Really? I don't even own a camera other than my crappy phone camera, which I occasionally use to snap a shot. Can't think how I'd carry a camera around to our activities without breaking it and never got the urge to interrupt whatever we're doing for a photo. I have a couple of school pictures and baby pictures on my nightstand and in the home office though.

Now taking and hanging pictures is a requirement? What is going to be required next? Do I need to put my prep school diploma up to justify not having pictures? I think there was a thread a few months ago cautioning against that. Seems we're stuck between Scylla and Charybdis (sp?).

Newsflash, D-apparently-seldom-CUMmers (oops, not classy enough to go without pictures): nobody on the internet gets to make silly rules for anybody else, let alone everybody else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

THIS x 1000!!!

If you think it's "low class" to have pictures of your kids in the family room, then you are too dumb to be a parent. Seriously!

I don't think I've been to house with children that doesn't have pictures around of the children. Weird question.

[Anonymous]

OP, there are pictures all over the entrances of the White House.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bizarre. I'm another CCDC homeowner who might be identified as "upper" or something due to education and HHI, but I'd be happy to display photos of DD in our "public" space if only we were better about printing them out and framing them.

We've plastered the fridge with photos, but I suppose that isn't "public" in the sense that casual acquaintances would see it. (Do other people with young kids do at lot of formal entertaining at home?? Can't really imagine doing so OR caring.) We did frame her official school porrait tfrom daycare and place it on a bar in the dining room, but mostly because we couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. We'd be happy to hang photos in the foyer, but there really isn't any surface area, and ditto for the bedroom. Agree with many PP's that seeing old pghotos provides a sense of family history and, to some extent, fashion history that is often hilarious or heartwarming.

Cluttered fridge. Low class.

CCDC average home price isn't so big. So tired of hearing about it.

[Anonymous]

Personally, I like pictures to be hung at eye level......mine.

[Anonymous]

Guilty of the cluttered fridge. Help!

[Anonymous]

01/16/2011 13:17

I have scraps of fabric on my living room windows. With saving for retirement, college and now building a private school fund, drapes are just going to have to wait.

I sincerely apologize for any distress this causes you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man - I'm low-class. Not because of my recliner couch or my cheap Ikea and Target furniture. But because my kids pictures are too close to the front door.

Might as well haul the old fridge out to the front yard and call it a day.

Be sure to haul your worn-out Lazy-Boy recliner out there, too! Then you'll be able to recline while you snack!

[Anonymous]

When one receives in one's drawing or dining room, one should not arrogantly give the impression that one's family is the center of the world. This rule, and all etiquette, originally emerged from a desire to be polite and attentive to guests' feelings.

Interestingly, the only household I know with photos in the foyer are nouveau riche, relatively uneducated and somewhat uncultured. Friendly and generous people nonetheless.

My family members/friends who come from the aristocracy or from highly educated families over many generations never display photos in public areas of their homes.
One discreet oil painting at the most, and the rest in small photos in the upstairs boudoir/study.

[Anonymous]

Please do explain to the rest of us how an oil painting of one's family can be described as discreet?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When one receives in one's drawing or dining room, one should not arrogantly give the impression that one's family is the center of the world. This rule, and all etiquette, originally emerged from a desire to be polite and attentive to guests' feelings.

Interestingly, the only household I know with photos in the foyer are nouveau riche, relatively uneducated and somewhat uncultured. Friendly and generous people nonetheless.

My family members/friends who come from the aristocracy or from highly educated families over many generations never display photos in public areas of their homes.
One discreet oil painting at the most, and the rest in small photos in the upstairs boudoir/study.

Again, I don't want to be looking at the faces of my children when DH has me bent over the bed. Guess, that makes me low class.

[Anonymous]

19:14 here. A boudoir is not a bedroom, PP. Not saying you can't have sex there, though! Creative is good

By discreet I meant physically smaller than the surrounding paintings or mirrors, and not placed at the main focal point of the room, such as over the fireplace.