A bit too busy IMO. Perhaps just have a narrow horizontal strip across instead of the full wall filled with art.

If the rest of the room is simple and clean and the wall is relatively small then it can look great. Also the frames or pictures need some uniformity, i.e. same colour or style frames, or all sepia photographs.

I love frames but you need to know when too much is too much

I love the mix matched frames as well but within reason like Rebecca's second photo as it gives each photo breathing space and a chance to enjoy them. A wall full of photos means 80% get ignored or glossed over

A wall such as that first one should have a frame/boarder around all sides- or a wallpaper theme background with a thin frame around the edges. Nitro

Digital photo frames are the best!

Some on a wall are fine. Covering a wall, No. Starts to appear like clutter.

It is a bit too cluttered, I would rather go with the pictures shown by Rebecca

I very much like it as the rest of the decor is sleek and modern. Don't be afraid to make a divine statement

Sorry, I see this as clutter. It's a fine idea, but a little less I think.

If the pictures were without frames and put in a single large frame, the wall would consist of a beautiful collage. However, the frames make the wall look a little bit cluttered. If you would want to put these many framed photographs on the wall, you could try adding some uniformity, whether it be with colors or the arrangement in itself. :)

Oh, the holes in that wall!

Too many different kinds, colors, and sizes. Plus you would have to dust every one separately.

There are ways to do photo walls creatively and well, the example above is not one. Not only is the lack of negative space a problem, there is no design. It looks like a bunch of Dollar Store frames with random photos, most not even suited for framing. Even a huge cork board filled with photos would be more fun. I couldn't live with it in my house.

Love it!

I like the different depths of the frames. I would have, however, kept them the same color.

the worst is when you walk into a potential new clients home and their are pics everywhere on every wall of their kids.. says one thing to me.. marriage problems!

I think it all has to do with balance. Pictures are great though but balance is key.

I like to keep it simple. And see the color of the walls. A few favorite photos are a nice touch IMO.

Creative. Salon style is bang on trend. Mix and match frames of different shapes, sizes and styles, bunch them together and voila - walls that ooze personality.

Hanging photos on the wall for decoration is a good idea, but I'd like to have them simplified and organized and change some from time to time.

"OUCH! my eyes HURT" my first reaction to looking at the first photo.
Too much - means nothing.
No rhyme - no reason.

Like the idea and I'm thinking of doing something similar at home....but this is a bit busy for my liking!

Not a fan of pictures at random in frames or even in organised rows...its not the clutter or the rows...just the frames and paintings that do not go together. Good for a sentimental wall, good for friends who want to accquaint themselves with you, what you do, your family etc...but definitely not a design statement. I think it would be a novelty for a while then get very annoying. I don't agree that there's any 'personality" in such a display.
Have an accquaintance who, on having sold a painting she did considers she does "gallery quality" work...and I won't burst her bubble, she's enjoying her self proclaimed fame and status. Every room of her house is filled with her paintings, nobody likes it..but she's having fun and I suppose that's all that matters. One cannot discuss the situation with a person on this kind of "high". It'll take a few rejections by galleries for her to 'get it'. Plenty of artists of this genre around all seeking identity. Most artists who have been recognised do not tend to clutter the walls of their abodes with their works...nearly all kept in stacks in the back room or in racks in their studio if they've managed to procure one. I feel ill at ease walking into the home of one of these overnight famous ' artists'...its easier to "OOOOH and AAAH over baby photos" Definitely not a fan of "look at what I did or look at my collection of artworks" walls of paintings. To destinguish between the two kinds of artists I like to ask where the rejects are. Artists who have no illusions are not shy about putting their foot through things. Alternatively, using artworks of more or less dubious quality to cover a wall is a bit disorientating both for the creator and for the visitor. Maybe different if the works are recognised but still, for me, rows and rows of paintings has a "musty" smell even if they are dusted and cleaned every day. Not a good look a vanity wall.

ladyrob1. I'm sure 'someone' will like her paintings. Art is sooooo subjective. There is a style that's for everyone. I've been to some galleries where I found that there was only one artist that I liked. And it wasn't even my style of art that I paint.

You are absolutely right! There are a group of people around here who really do like her paintings and that's what encourages her...and helps with her depression...better than taking pills! Been giving this further thought. Since she has no particular style at present maybe she could group the 'like' paintings in smaller displays here and there in 3s and 5s and some in casual bundles hung by the corners without frames. This might, for the first idea, look more like an attempt at decor and with the 'bundles' might tempt visitors to want to lift them up and see the others hidden underneath... she might be flattered at that and without seeming too eager to sell may achieve a triple positive...one for her self esteem, one seeming like decor in an painter's house and another, also decor but like a casual placement of works maybe waiting for frames...maybe trying to decide which to frame..( which to reject)...all sorts of little suggestive placements that could serve several purposes. For decor alone I like the idea of different profiles and coloured frames that suit each painting, the idea of smaller uneven numbered groups of "like" works...say the trees ones or the beach ones or the flower ones for example...and I also like the idea of stragecally pinned up bundles...maybe with a pin on the wall (if you don't mind holes) or on a nice thick string hung across the surface with paper clips or a bulldog clip... and a jar of brushes and/or tubes of paint nearby on a shelf. Empty frames casually hung in bundles also serve as decor. That's the only way I would have multiple paintings and "art things" on a wall.
I understand about galleries showing several styles and artists together...sometimes, if the gallery owner or director..."has a clue", (surprising how many do not). he/she would be insightful enough to display the different styles so that the adjacent works complement each other and so more people would like more works. Amazing buying a work and then on getting it home, thinking you'd been given the wrong one...because it looked so different next to its partner on the wall ! Decor is important wherever displays of anything are mounted. Some of the mass marketing furniture places have no idea what to put next to what for good effect...have you noticed?

P.S just had a peek at your profile...love the capis shell hanging and the tasteful, photos...just enough clutter in the right places...and your blue/violet butterfly thumbnail

I think it depends on the room. If you have a large living room with a ton of photos all over the wall it can stuff up the sense of proportions. A larger painting balances the room. In a smaller cottage style often looks great to have one wall done with lots of photos. I think the intimacy is there in that style in a smaller home. However some walls just look better blank. I think it really depends on the style of the house. A bazillion pics are dust collectors and the brain gets tired of trying to sort out the information coming in. Yet a grouping of photos can be quite pleasing.

So called friends that talk about you behind your back in a public forum need a paint brush to the eye...that will should you see things from a different perspective .....I gave heard turpentine removes paint

All the neat freaks will of course think it's messy! People who value life over organisation (yes, neat freaks, you too are judged :-) and found wanting) will think it's great . . . and that's how the posts have played out.

Quality framing costs a lot - I've had to pay close to $100 dollars to have individual souvenir postcards custom framed in matching frames (yes, my walls don't have a lot of hanging space left). Mass-produced frames are a lot more affordable - and make a lot more sense for artwork such as photos that have little monetary value.

I think it's great. A mass of family photos is better then someone who has worked at making sure their cushion covers match expensive art work all for the sake of balance. For me it wouldn't work. I am such a clumsy beast that I trip over a line on the road...most of these pics would be at 45degrees or on the floor by now if I had to walk past.

Too much Temple and Webster have a video on arranging pictures and you can mix a few pictures Need a common theme either in frame colour or material or colour in photos and painting

This is an old post and I've already commented but I agree with Susan Ballard on the need for commonality and with Junipergirl on a cottage style home having a wall of pictures but not necessarily as a permanent thing. A clutter of unrelated pictures reminds me of a fridge front covered with those magnets and stickers...its OK to have a corner where you display the things you like but I'd like to think that I do not rub my friends' faces in my paintings and family mementos and that they do not feel ill at ease in my environment.
We each have our own reasons for hanging pictures on walls and after all they are the walls of our home where we live and be ourselves and surround ourselves with menories and achiuevements. I allow myself a certain amount of that if only for my owns satisfaction, but to make a decor statement out of it all can become a bit of a disaster for many reasons.
I feel that being confronted with an "in your face" wall of pictures is like being subjected to a slide evening of a friend's latest holiday or to copious family albums..when.I'd rather just spend time conversing and "hanging". I feel I am being obliged to comment when confronted with a wall full of pictures and worse of the homeowner's own paintings. Its very difficult to make the appropriate polite "ooohs and aaaahs" in instances such as this. I would not like to do this to my friends.