Anonymous
02/29/2024 09:54
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
I agree that a photo wall with only kids' portraits is a little ... not my taste. Why don't you make a coffee table book for each kid, and you could begin each chapter with their annual portrait and then add in additional fun photos of that year, trips, Halloweens, holidays, friends, family, school pic. And add text if you want.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 18:38
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op here. I have been taking pictures of the kids every birthday, first few years were professional and then I just took them myself. The professional ones are either 10x13 or 8x10 portraits (brain freeze and I don't know why I did different sizes). I have to print the ones I took and want to put them all up somewhere where people can see their growth.
Our hallway in main level has the formal areas opening out from it so just a narrow wall there. There is a 2 story empty wall in foyer area.
Would it be weird at a stair landing or basement stair wall? I could do upstairs hallway but not many people go up and I want it to be seen. There is a space between 2 double windows in family room but it has to be done vertically. Same in stair landings.
And if I had mixed sizes, what size frame would look good? Do I go for a 11x14 and put them all in with different mats?
Super weird. Like a shrine to the kid. I'd go with photos that are attached to happy memories, not to commemorate their growth.
If you want to show off the birthday photos, maybe a coffee table book or digital frame? Or put one up at a time and change the photo periodically?
Where else do I put these portrait studio pictures then? I'm too lazy to do the picture swap.
I didn't think I would be the odd one out taking birthday portrait pics.
It's one thing to hang one favorite, but a whole wall of portraits of your kid is weird. Just keep them in an album.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 18:00
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op here. I have been taking pictures of the kids every birthday, first few years were professional and then I just took them myself. The professional ones are either 10x13 or 8x10 portraits (brain freeze and I don't know why I did different sizes). I have to print the ones I took and want to put them all up somewhere where people can see their growth.
Our hallway in main level has the formal areas opening out from it so just a narrow wall there. There is a 2 story empty wall in foyer area.
Would it be weird at a stair landing or basement stair wall? I could do upstairs hallway but not many people go up and I want it to be seen. There is a space between 2 double windows in family room but it has to be done vertically. Same in stair landings.
And if I had mixed sizes, what size frame would look good? Do I go for a 11x14 and put them all in with different mats?
Super weird. Like a shrine to the kid. I'd go with photos that are attached to happy memories, not to commemorate their growth.
If you want to show off the birthday photos, maybe a coffee table book or digital frame? Or put one up at a time and change the photo periodically?
Where else do I put these portrait studio pictures then? I'm too lazy to do the picture swap.
I didn't think I would be the odd one out taking birthday portrait pics.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 16:41
Subject: Re:If you have a picture wall..
We have one in the hallway between our bedrooms and then another in the basement hallway. I don’t care if it’s dated. I like seeing the pictures and so does my spouse and so do my kids (and I have to say everyone who comes over also stops to look). It’s mostly pics of our kids/our family of 4 plus extended family photos too (cousins, grandparents, etc) it makes a house feel more like a home to me to have family pictures up.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 16:34
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
We have the “old fashioned” style multi photo frames in our upstairs hallway and along the stairwell into the basement. All sorts of photos- old, current, in between, all family immediate and and extended, etc. I love it.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 12:45
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Anonymous wrote:Op here. I have been taking pictures of the kids every birthday, first few years were professional and then I just took them myself. The professional ones are either 10x13 or 8x10 portraits (brain freeze and I don't know why I did different sizes). I have to print the ones I took and want to put them all up somewhere where people can see their growth.
Our hallway in main level has the formal areas opening out from it so just a narrow wall there. There is a 2 story empty wall in foyer area.
Would it be weird at a stair landing or basement stair wall? I could do upstairs hallway but not many people go up and I want it to be seen. There is a space between 2 double windows in family room but it has to be done vertically. Same in stair landings.
And if I had mixed sizes, what size frame would look good? Do I go for a 11x14 and put them all in with different mats?
Super weird. Like a shrine to the kid. I'd go with photos that are attached to happy memories, not to commemorate their growth.
If you want to show off the birthday photos, maybe a coffee table book or digital frame? Or put one up at a time and change the photo periodically?
Anonymous
02/28/2024 12:43
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
We have one behind our couch in our family room, but chose candid, artsy photos that are less in your face than traditional portraits. Lots of travel-y photos with a bit of us.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 12:24
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
lol at the poster who says hanging photos on a wall is an out of date trend.
Anonymous
02/28/2024 11:55
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Op here. I have been taking pictures of the kids every birthday, first few years were professional and then I just took them myself. The professional ones are either 10x13 or 8x10 portraits (brain freeze and I don't know why I did different sizes). I have to print the ones I took and want to put them all up somewhere where people can see their growth.
Our hallway in main level has the formal areas opening out from it so just a narrow wall there. There is a 2 story empty wall in foyer area.
Would it be weird at a stair landing or basement stair wall? I could do upstairs hallway but not many people go up and I want it to be seen. There is a space between 2 double windows in family room but it has to be done vertically. Same in stair landings.
And if I had mixed sizes, what size frame would look good? Do I go for a 11x14 and put them all in with different mats?
Our hallway in main level has the formal areas opening out from it so just a narrow wall there. There is a 2 story empty wall in foyer area.
Would it be weird at a stair landing or basement stair wall? I could do upstairs hallway but not many people go up and I want it to be seen. There is a space between 2 double windows in family room but it has to be done vertically. Same in stair landings.
And if I had mixed sizes, what size frame would look good? Do I go for a 11x14 and put them all in with different mats?
Anonymous
02/28/2024 11:15
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Anonymous wrote:Traditional picture walls with a bunch of family portraits of different sizes is super, super outdated.
Get a few oversized frames and put smaller photos with big mats, all matching in the same size. Much more modern look. Hallways are great for this.
And that will be outdated in a few years. OP can do whatever she wants.
I have a gallery wall in our upstairs hallway. I put them in different sizes, similar frames (black frames, white mats).
Anonymous
02/28/2024 11:11
Subject: Re:If you have a picture wall..
Anonymous wrote:Upstairs hallway. We have these frames:
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/brushed-black11x14-wall-frame/s153988
Pp here. I know it's not "done" to put tons of family photos on main floor, but you could do a very clean arrangement of 6 matching frames in the kitchen eating area or family room. Our hallway is pretty long and we have a lot of pictures, and everybody new who ever has occasion to go upstairs stops and looks at them....
Anonymous
02/28/2024 11:10
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Going up the staircase
Anonymous
02/28/2024 11:09
Subject: Re:If you have a picture wall..
Upstairs hallway. We have these frames:
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/brushed-black11x14-wall-frame/s153988
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/brushed-black11x14-wall-frame/s153988
Anonymous
02/28/2024 10:40
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Traditional picture walls with a bunch of family portraits of different sizes is super, super outdated.
Get a few oversized frames and put smaller photos with big mats, all matching in the same size. Much more modern look. Hallways are great for this.
Get a few oversized frames and put smaller photos with big mats, all matching in the same size. Much more modern look. Hallways are great for this.
Anonymous
02/27/2024 23:16
Subject: If you have a picture wall..
Where in your home do you have it?