HappyLady Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 ....do you have on display in your home? I'm debating adding another wall of pictures of my children and it got me thinking as to how many pictures are too many pictures. Or is there no such thing as too many pictures of your children? I grew up wondering why my mom never displayed a single picture of me and I tend to go overboard doing the opposite of what my mom did so I'm nervous that I might go too far. :lol: Right now I have 4 framed pictures of my kids on the mantel, along with a couple pictures that I didn't want to frame, but wanted to temporarily display (like a recent pic of my daughter from gymnastics). Then I have 6 framed pictures of my DD in a collage in the hallway (that the bedrooms are off of) and 1 large framed pic of her. I have 1 large framed pic of my DS as well and a collage of 6 framed pics of him. Then in my dining room I have one wall with a collage of 6 pics of both of my kids as well as my niece and nephews. And my fridge is covered in pics of various family members. I don't know if that's too much or not. I don't want my house to look like a shrine to my kids, but I just love so many pics of various stages of their lives that I want to display. I thought about a digital frame, but it's not really my cup of tea. Currently there are no pics on my living room walls of my children so all you see when you first walk in the house are the pics on the mantel. I was thinking of using a wall in the entry way to add all sorts of pictures of them so they aren't really in the living room and you only really see them when you first walk into my house. What are your thoughts? What do you do in your home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 My mom has pics in the entryway like that and I like it, I think it is a great place for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachskittles Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None. I'm an overplanner and every idea I think of seems like too much. Eventually, I will decide and probably put up a few. My sister has pictures of her son all over her living room (and I'm going to assume her daughter will be added in soon). On the refrigerator she has a few pictures of them together and in her son's room there are a few more of them together. Her place does feel like a shrine to her son but not in a bad way. It shows everyone how much she loves him. I've got too many kids to be decorating a room with their pictures. Well, maybe if I dedicated a room to each kid it would work. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Lava Mama Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I have pictures of each of my kids from each year. From newborn to their current age. I have 5 kids, so I group all the "years" together. All newborn pictures together, "I'm one" together, and so on. We just recently moved to a much bigger house than we used to live in. (We went from a 3 bedroom house to a 6 bedroom) so we have a lot more "wall space" now. I love having all the pictures up. It's really neat seeing how they change, and how much they look like each other at certain ages. Hot Lava Mama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Right now...two. One family picture, and one of the two of them together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 about 5 or 6 each. I have a collage frame that holds several pictures then their individual pictures and one of all 4 and couple nice candid. DD has a couple more than the boys because I can't resist her ballet pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None, but I don't hang things on the wall much. I have 2 paintings that belong to dh (a friend gave them to him) which he hung in the living room, a decorative candle holder artsy thingy over the bed, and 4 small wood panels with Chinese symbols on them over the picture window in the dining room. That is all I've managed in the 10 years we have lived here. And most of that is only up because of dh. Now, on my phone and computer I have tons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 One of each child on display. Two different frames; boys in one, girls in the other. They're on the mantel. That's all I have out in view in the whole house. Oh, wait, I just remembered one kind of obscure 4x6 of four of them that's in another place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 A few snapshots on the fridge along with a few small family vacation type photos. That's it. I'm not a decorator type and I don't have a lot of stuff hanging on my walls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happymomofboys Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None. It's my failing as a wife and mother that I don't take enough pictures, nor do I display them. I have a scrapbook I made when my oldest was an infant, but never got past the first page of my second son's. I feel guilty sometimes, but I realize that there are worse failings to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 One each of the kids on a shelf in the living room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iucounu Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None, though we do have an online gallery of family pictures. We have lots of other types of pictures on the walls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deacongirl Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Tons, formal and unformal, on the walls, in frames on tables and on bookshelves, on the corkboard in the kitchen. (obviously many of these are family photos, so not just the children) So does everyone I know. I have never walked into a home and thought there were too many pictures of the children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Well, most of my available wall space is taken up with school stuff! :lol: I have a small framed picture of the boys on the dresser/buffet in the dining room, and a collage I made with pictures of them and some of their artwork in the upstairs hall. I have one tiny picture of dh and me at a wedding (not ours) in a frame on the big Ikea shelf in the living room, but that is it for photos of our family. I do however have about 30 scrapbooks on those same shelves in the living room documenting every single event in the past 10 years, so the kids do enjoy pulling those out and looking at them periodically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Good for you for having lots of pictures!! I have to confess we are not picture takers. The last professional portraits we have are from years ago. With the changeover to digital cameras, I no longer had print copies to save. After a while we just stopped taking pictures. My dd's take some to put on facebook, but nothing that is printed out and saved. I have 3 pictures up in the hallway and 3 in my bedroom. The ones in the bedroom are their 8-week old infant pictures. The ones in the hallway are the last professional pictures done. Dd14's picture is from 3rd grade. Ds15's picture is from 1st grade. And dd20's picture is from 8th grade. :blush::blushing::blush::blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 We used to have a lot more but we took a bunch down when we thought we were ready to rebuild. We have baby pictures of each kid in a frame with their birth date, time and height/weight information. We have two long collage frames on either side of the tv which sits on the mantel - my youngest isn't in any of the pictures and I really need to do something about that. :blush: I really need to redo the frames and put the other ones back up. I like having pictures of the kids around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None. :-) We kept their pictures in albums. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Framed family photos are only in the upstairs hall. I don't like them in public areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Only one on a coffee table. Can't have stuff on the walls here either. Seagate external harddrive though, now this is a different story..lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 atm, not a single one. Since we're hoping to be out of this mobile in the fall, we decided to leave all our pics, etc in storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Tons, formal and unformal, on the walls, in frames on tables and on bookshelves, on the corkboard in the kitchen. (obviously many of these are family photos, so not just the children) So does everyone I know. I have never walked into a home and thought there were too many pictures of the children. :iagree: In fact, I don't have any real "art" on the wall. It's all us. Recently, I've been working on dh's family pics. I've started framing some of the cool old ones and putting them on shelves. I love the old black and whites. I pick weird pictures. Here is my favorite right now. It's my dh's grandad standing in what appears to be a bar with small children present, holding a duck. It makes me smile every time I look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 2 formal on the wall 6 4x6 in frames around the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 none. At the old house I had tons, since moving here I never hung them up, it has been just over 2 years, and no one notices the lack of children's photos. Besides the wall space is needed for school stuff and bookcases :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 None unless you count the lovely silhouettes we did as part of history study this year. Kind of a school project though. It wouldn't occur to me to. I have the real thing right here. There are pictures of them on display at all three sets of grandparents' houses and at both their great-grandmothers' houses though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elinor Everywhere Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 In looking around, I can see 7 picture. Two are on the mantel (small), 2 in a bookshelf (small), and 3 in a wrought-iron decorative thingy (5x7's I think). We like to keep our walls for art work, and the photos are in frames that fit in well with our decor. I should probably switch some of the photos out for more recent ones, but I love seeing them when they were little. And sweet. And innocent. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I have a gallery wall, so several. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photomo Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Um I have a Huge gallery wall in my family room that include photo's of my children & all of my nieces & nephews . I also have probably 8 canvas gallery wraps of my 2 1/2 year old daughter and 3 of my new grandson. I also have 2 canvas gallery wraps of my 2 oldest children age 19 & 24. We have a pretty big house with tons of wall space. I have some of the gallery wraps above our fireplace and then in our hallways downstairs and upstairs. I am a photo nut!! I might mention that I'm also a professional photographer so that might have something to do with it.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I don't have any. Our photo albums and pictures were lost in our house fire. (sniffle). I have a bunch on the computer and my blog. One of my goals for this summer is to make canvas pics of each of my kids. I had scrapbooked for years and between my mom (deceased), my mil, dd's and I we had over 20 scrapbooks- lovingly created. I could still cry thinking about all of those lovely pages, my mom's hand written notes gone.... My sil has a zillion pics of her and her family all over her house (incl of her dd who died). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Let's see... I have tons of pictures. :tongue_smilie: In the living room I have the multi-image 10x13s we got of each of the boys when they were in Kindergarten (we do big 'kindergarten' pics in our family)and a multi image of Pink from her 3 year old pics above the piano. On the mantel I have a picture of each of them, but the sizes vary - 8x10, 5x7, 3x5 - just good ones of them that I went ahead and framed. On our bookshelves (wall of the fireplace all bookshelves) I have Pink and Astro's 1 year portraits (multi-image again). On the wall above the computer desk I have our family picture and a picture of the 3 kids together. In the dining room I have big 10x13s of Link and Astro (separate) from their aforementioned kindergarten photo shoot. In the hallway I have yearly pictures of each of the kids. Like, every year - there are 8 of Link, 6 of Astro, 3 of Pink. In the boys' room there are 2 8x10s - one of each of them from their kindergarten photos, jumping through the air. There's also a picture of them with DH. In Pink's room there's an adorable black and white 8x10 of her when she was 9 months - one where she's looking down, the 'eyelash pictures' as the studio called them. So yeah, I have a lot. I don't feel like it looks totally crowded and overdone, personally... but some people might? Idk. It's just always what I had. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 We have a framed 8 x 10 of each child on the wall going up the stairs to the second floor. Because our stairs start in the front hall, they can be seen at the front entrance. We would update these photos every few years, with the final one being their senior photo. That's all we have on display for the public eye. :) Upstairs in our bedroom, we have an 8 x 10 of each child in their baptismal gown. We had one professional family photo taken once, and we have that in an 8 x 10 frame in our bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatA Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 For those who do have them, do you change them out as they grow up? Do you still have baby, toddler pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 For those who do have them, do you change them out as they grow up? Do you still have baby, toddler pictures? I do still have baby/toddler pictures. The yearly ones we keep all out, and the ones on the bookshelves that I bought for the express purpose of keeping out. The others we will probably switch out at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 In my living room: On piano a family portrait of all of us. Mantel: none framed. 1 framed of my sisters and me. 1 snapshot sitting up there of dh and girls. Won't be there long :) bookshelf: 4 small framed pics of them when they were babies (2 of each) among other pics. In my room: 1 framed 8 x 10 of each from a couple of years ago. Tucked in my mirror, a more recent one of each. In the den: giant collages of all kinds of family pics, including before they were born, but lots of them. 1 bookshelf has a few smaller framed older pics. **** In general, we don't have a lot, and nothing very current up. I never thought about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmama Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 None. I never have liked having pictures of people on the walls even as a little kid - it creeps me out. And now I don't both for that reason and for religious reasons - it's frowned on in Islam to have pictures of living things displayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Michelle* Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Pretty much none. We have three nice ones of our baby who passed, but only one of our oldest and none of the others. We really need to get some pictures done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 We have lots of framed pictures, but I feel guilty all the time that we've never used a professional photographer to take family or child pictures. It seems like all my friends do that and they look great but we're just so cheap and/or poorer that it doesn't seem like a responsible family expense. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I just got up and counted. I display 48 pictures of my family. I have 2 hallways I use, dining room and living room have walls of nicely arranged professional pictures, and I have huge built in bookcases I also have them on. I've only ever received compliments on my decor. We are a family and my house says A Happy Family Lives Here. If you are happy with the pictures then don't worry about it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deacongirl Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 For those who do have them, do you change them out as they grow up? Do you still have baby, toddler pictures? Yes, I keep the photos I love displayed. I need to do better at adding newer ones though. (esp. of dd#3) I also have baby photos of my parents displayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I don't have any. Our photo albums and pictures were lost in our house fire. (sniffle). I have a bunch on the computer and my blog.One of my goals for this summer is to make canvas pics of each of my kids. I had scrapbooked for years and between my mom (deceased), my mil, dd's and I we had over 20 scrapbooks- lovingly created. I could still cry thinking about all of those lovely pages, my mom's hand written notes gone.... My sil has a zillion pics of her and her family all over her house (incl of her dd who died). I'm so sorry! Losing your scrapbooks is terrible! We have some around with extended family. So my kids remember that they do have a family just in the US. We finally brought my scrapbooks and pictures over to the UK this year. I feel better just knowing I can look at them. We did have them on a hard drive but not the same. I am aiming for wedding pictures next year for our silver wedding anniversary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Dup. Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 If you want to display pictures, please do!! I love photography and have pictures all over my home. In fact, we recently moved and that is a project I am currently working on and I am having so much fun grouping frames together, choosing what pictures I want to display, etc. I take a TON of pictures of my kids, my only complaint is that there is too little wall space. I do display it so it looks more artistic though, and not just frames slapped up willy-nilly. Here are some of my design inspirations (I'm copying them from pinterest, hopefully they'll show up...) http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/upload/88805423871751678_Z3kRRD77.jpg http://pinterest.com/pin/1337074859802601/ http://pinterest.com/pin/1337074859580878/ You really can have a lot of pictures up and make it look artistic and beautiful. :001_smile::001_smile: Here is my next project, if I can find a Staples: http://pinterest.com/pin/1337074860028177/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extendedforecast Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) I have a collage that holds 28 smal pictures of our family that I bought at either Kirkland's or Garden Ridge. I'm planning on buying another since we have so many kids and they're growing up fast. I used to have a wall of pictured I'd rotate according to the season, but I don't have a wall at the new place. The stairway is curved, so I can't hang them there either. Righ now the frames are sitting on the floor in my room while I decide what to do with them. My parents, like yours did not display pictures of us. That is why I do put them up. I think as long as it is done nicely and in a few places throughout the house, it won't look like a shrine. Edited June 23, 2012 by extendedforecast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I have 10 total. Nine in the livingroom (which includes a college) and one in our bedroom. Hmmm...may need more <giggle>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwallowTail Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) I don't like lots of family photos up on a wall. (Like pp's, I tend to not hang much of anything on the wall.) But, I do have a number of nice photos of my dd, in lovely frames, and I set them on tables and such against the wall or on tables. So, I suppose I have at least 8-10 of her around the house. Edited June 23, 2012 by SwallowTail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghee Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I don't have many. I have a few in those magnetic holders on the fridge, and a 4x6 of each child in their Kindergarten graduation gown from when they PSed. We used to have a large portrait of the kids over the mantel, but it was so out of date that I took it down. I'd like to do another one and hang it, but I haven't gotten around to doing it. Other than that, I don't like photos on the wall. I have things like framed cross-stitch hangings and mirrors and such on my walls, but no photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I have a picture of the three of them together and pictures of each of them separately. So a total of four pictures of kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Interestingly enough, hardly any. I usually have a few on my fridge of a favorite photo session. There are a couple older B&Ws in the hallway. I think that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I have several when they were infants hanging in the hallway and a few in frames on book shelves in the front room---but not many. I'm terrible about getting my kid's pictures taken and even more terrible about displaying them. I'm terrible about wall decoration period. I did not inherit an interior decorating gene---nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Only a few. I know I want to get a picture of the kids when they were younger up there and maybe pictures of the older two as they are now. We don't have enough wall space now so I can't do too many. Everyone in the family likes us to have art up on the walls more anyway. So we do more art, less family photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Dup. Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 For those who do have them, do you change them out as they grow up? Do you still have baby, toddler pictures? It wouldn't occur to me to. I have the real thing right here.. The older my children get, the more of a point I make to order pictures to put up of their baby/toddler years. They were all so cute, and it goes by so quickly! I love seeing pictures of what their chubby little faces looked like around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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