Have you hung up frames with stock photo inside?

jenna8984

We went to visit my H's best friend and his wife was giving me a tour of their new house. In the living room, there was a wall with about 10 frames and as I leaned in to look at the pictures they were all the stock ones that come in the frame. You can tell because they have like printed barcodes and size descriptions. She laughed and said she hadn't gotten around to changing them yet.
I do not understand that.....why would you hang them? I'd rather leave that wall blank than hang it like that. I know my SIL did it at her house too. What about you- have you ever done that? Maybe it's more common than I think? I would never lol.

KatWAG

I don't buy frames unless I have a picture to put in them. So I have never done this, and I think its a bit weird.

Maggie0829

I answered "yup" because I have one with a stock picture still in it.  It isn't hanging on the wall and it is a small 5x7 frame sitting on a bookshelf, but it still has the stock dog picture in it.  I just haven't gotten around to printing out a picture of my dog to replace the stock picture.

But I wouldn't hang a bunch of frames on a wall without first having the pictures to go in them. That is much more noticeable then a small picture frame sitting on a bookshelf.

beachyone15

That's odd. I wouldn't hang frames with the stock photo; if anything I'd take it out and have them blank until I could put my picture in.

emmaaa

The only way I would do this is if I were trying to plan where I was hanging pictures and hadn't printed them yet. But usually I have the picture first then buy the frame later. I answered, nope.

luckya23

I just did this on Saturday!! I was redoing my mantel and had a frame meant for a wedding photo, but I hadn't had them printed yet! LOL

ETA: The dog is real!

labro

Special snowflake here. We just did that in my sister's nursery so I could help her get all the frames hung. That way when the prints and pictures arrive in a week or so she'll be able to easily take them down, insert photo, and hang them back up again. I did all the hard work early so she wouldn't have to.

I've also gone around and arranged frames before adding the photo just to decide where I wanted everything. But that's usually only if I'm doing some sort of complicated photo collage. Most of the time I have the photos already printed.

lovemesomemonster

Nope, it's a pain to get them on the wall once, I don't want to have to take them down to put the photo in them. I usually have the opposite problem, I end up with a pile of pictures in frames ready to go and take forever to get them on the wall!

jenna8984

@luckya23 That looks awesome! Get a wedding photo stat! lol.

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I did it one time, while I was in college. It was one of those multi-frame photo stands, and I was legitimately too lazy to put pictures in it, because all of the frames were like 2x2 or slightly bigger. It became a running joke with my best friend and I, because I kept it that way for two years. She always threatened that she would fill it for me, but with really ugly pictures from Facebook. After that, I got my act together and put some pictures in.

Now...I don't think I'd hang a bunch of frames with stock photos on my wall.

luckya23

jenna8984 said:

@luckya23 That looks awesome! Get a wedding photo stat! lol.

Thanks!  I just ordered some from shutterfly last night!  I haven't decided which to use actually... probably the one in my siggy.  I think it would be funny to use the one where we were holding the "&" though!

I bought that frame over a year ago and it's been sitting in the closet, so I couldn't wait anymore! haha

anjemon

I've never done this, but I can see doing it if I had a wall I was trying to make sure would look right. But mostly I think I would never get around to actually putting pictures in the frames and it would be like that for a long time. Based on the number of frames lying around my house, it's totally plausible.

wandajune6

I answered No because it seems odd to me - but I did it once.

When DH and I were combining households, we realized that we had a small cluster of art that looked good together- smaller black/white photos, sketches, etc. I had 3 and he had 1. We decided to reframe them to match and got a 5th frame because it looked off--- we needed a 5th for balance. We hung all of them at the same time to get a sense of design and intended to find a piece of art we liked for the 5th. We haven't found it yet....

lyndausvi

Nope.  Seems a little odd to me.   

I'm also one that doesn't buy frames unless I already have the picture.  I match frames to pictures, not the other way around.    

I just get things done.  I'm the one who is 90% unpacked within 48 hours of moving in.  Everything is hung up within the first week of moving in. 

As my mom always told me the THOUGHT of doing a task is often much worse than just doing the task.   She is somewhat right about that.  If I'm going to make an effort of hanging up frames, they will be 100% done, not "almost" done.

teddygirl9

No. I HAVE bought frames before I have photos for them (I bought 6 matching frames to put in my stairwell) but I wouldn't hang them with just the stock photos in haha. I could see it being done to mark them out and make sure the spacing was ok, but then I assume you'd take them down and replace the photo.

redheadbride15

Well, I answered "no" at first because this seemed silly. But then I started reading through the threads and I remembered that I HAVE done this. I have a beautiful Venetian glass frame that a friend gave me as a gift and it sat on a bookcase waiting for a "worthy" photo for several years (the frame itself is a work of art!). But now it has one of me and my H in it - I put that in fairly shortly after we started dating and it's still the only framed photo of the two of us in our house. Now that we have wedding photos back I assume that will change soon, however.

lovesclimbing

No, that seems odd to me. I have three frames I bought to put wedding photos in, but they're all still laying on top of the fridge waiting until I buy photos for them.

novella1186

Usually the stock photos creep me out. Especially the ones where the people just look too... happy? I'm weird so take that with a grain of salt. 

I also never buy frames unless it's because I already have a specific photo that I want to put in one. So no, I've never put up a frame with a stock photo in it. 

STARMOON44

I get it. If I were trying to do like a gallery wall or something with multiple frames, I might hang them to figure out sizing etc and then print photos for them.

luckya23

STARMOON44 said:

I get it. If I were trying to do like a gallery wall or something with multiple frames, I might hang them to figure out sizing etc and then print photos for them.

There should totally be an app for this, so you can try out different photos in the frames too!

I hardly ever hang anything on the wall, especially not something as small as picture frames though, personally.

When I moved into my house they must have had quite the collection of teeny frames in the hallway, because there were about 50 nails!

AddieCake

KatWAG said:

I don't buy frames unless I have a picture to put in them. So I have never done this, and I think its a bit weird.

100% this.

novella1186

luckya23 said:

STARMOON44 said:

I get it. If I were trying to do like a gallery wall or something with multiple frames, I might hang them to figure out sizing etc and then print photos for them.

There should totally be an app for this, so you can try out different photos in the frames too!

I hardly ever hang anything on the wall, especially not something as small as picture frames though, personally.

When I moved into my house they must have had quite the collection of teeny frames in the hallway, because there were about 50 nails!

We have a GIANT framed portrait of Bill Murray hanging on our living room wall. Long story. Picture frames don't have to be small  

jenna8984

@lyndausvi Me too! I alwyas have everything perfectly unpacked and where it's supposed to go within 2 days. And I also only go out and buy a frame if I have printed a specific picture to put in it.

@luckya23 I'm big on not "cluttering up" spaces, so I'll print like 1-2 very large prints to hang in each room or hallway and that's it. This particular girl in the OP has like 39 picture frames in her living room from the tv stand, to a bookshelf, to end tables, to walls. It drove me crazy because half were stock photos and the rest were just way too much clutter.

[Deleted User]

I answered yes, but here's my story. I was gifted a small frame as a housewarming present- it had a stock photo. I put it up (stand, not a hanger) and haven't printed a photo for it.

So I would have answered no of not for this incident. I don't buy frames until I have the photo selected, but this was a gift.

lyndausvi

FeeleyToBe said:

I answered yes, but here's my story. I was gifted a small frame as a housewarming present- it had a stock photo. I put it up (stand, not a hanger) and haven't printed a photo for it. So I would have answered no of not for this incident. I don't buy frames until I have the photo selected, but this was a gift.

now see, I wouldn't put it out until I had the picture.

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lyndausvi said:

FeeleyToBe said:

I answered yes, but here's my story. I was gifted a small frame as a housewarming present- it had a stock photo. I put it up (stand, not a hanger) and haven't printed a photo for it.

So I would have answered no of not for this incident. I don't buy frames until I have the photo selected, but this was a gift.

now see, I wouldn't put it out until I had the picture.

Studio apartment, zero storage! (Wedding shower gifts from this weekend are piled in the middle of the kitchen because we don't have a closet to store them in until after the wedding...) I was thinking about donating it because we have such little space to even display things but we both liked the frame. I just forget to bring the SD card to the store to print a photo...

ShesSoCold

I get it for temporary placement purposes, but it seems really, really weird to me to have pictures of random people framed in my house.

justsie

I have one sitting on the window sill in our bathroom. Granted, its a frame from our vacation to Disney world and the photo inside is of Micky and Pluto, so its not random smiling faces that I don't know. I know Micky and Pluto. 

redheadbride15

novella1186 said:

luckya23 said:

STARMOON44 said:

I get it. If I were trying to do like a gallery wall or something with multiple frames, I might hang them to figure out sizing etc and then print photos for them.

There should totally be an app for this, so you can try out different photos in the frames too!

I hardly ever hang anything on the wall, especially not something as small as picture frames though, personally.

When I moved into my house they must have had quite the collection of teeny frames in the hallway, because there were about 50 nails!

We have a GIANT framed portrait of Bill Murray hanging on our living room wall. Long story. Picture frames don't have to be small  

My curiosity about this is totally peaked, as it is rather... unusual. I absolutely must know the story now.

mrscomposer

I'm in the same boat as @FeeleyToBe.  We got an "Our Wedding Day" frame for a shower gift.  I told J he has to pick the picture that goes in it.  He has yet to pick the picture.  Up until I packed everything, it was in its spot on the bookshelf with a very nice couple in it.

Otherwise I buy frame when I have pictures to put in them.

IrishPirate60

I once wrote a short story about a woman with walls covered with photos and a story to go with each. I'm going to have to dig that one up one of these days.