Filed under: Bedroom, Your Home, Living Room
Lindsay does it. Paris does it. But would you ever splash your photo on the walls of your home?
Life&Style via Gawker
There's even a name for it: Autodecorating. And Gawker's calling out the worst offenders: Along with Lindsay and Paris, Kanye West, Padma Lakshmi and Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Zolciak are guilty of filling their houses with paintings, photos and -- most notoriously -- pillows with their likenesses. Now, I kind of understand celebrities' motivation here: These are people who are accustomed to seeing their faces on billboards and in magazines. They're desensitized to it. Right? Or maybe because they make their living off of their faces they're just excited to pay tribute to their moneymaker. In any case, it's hardly surprising.
I'm more interested in the rules of face-centric decorating for us normal, non-famous people. So I turned to two friends who own self-portraits. Hear them out:
Pro-Autodecorating: Jordan Reid of Ramshackle Glam
"I've been lucky enough to have a couple of amazing photographers send me prints of shots they've taken of me and/or my family. And yeah, on the one hand they're enormous photographs of ... you know, my face. But on the other hand they're works of art that I not only own, but am actually a part of. So of course I'm going to display them in my home. It's artwork that's deeply personal, laced with memories and associations. And to me, that's exactly the kind of thing that should be on the walls of your home."
Anti-Autodecorating: Kristin Newman, TV writer/producer
"We had a family friend who paints portraits and my mother commissioned him to paint one of our whole family. But after the portrait was finished, he just kept painting me. One portrait of me as a gift for my mother. And then one for me, as a housewarming present. It's a life-sized picture of my head ... and then, over my shoulder, a picture of me laughing as a little girl, as if to represent my inner child. No, it's not on display. I felt like maybe as a single woman, the combination of a portrait and my cat wasn't going to lead to a super great lovelife. So I gave it to my friends. And it was a white elephant gift for awhile. Last time I saw it, it was in my friend's guest room closet. But whenever I come over, I move it to his pillow."Anti-Autodecorating: Kristin Newman, TV writer/producer
What do you think: Would you ever decorate with your face? Weigh in in the comments!
And if you want to tip-toe into the trend, check out our picks for the best ways to auto-decorate (think: Silhouettes and illustrations, not sexy-eyes portraits like Lindsay's).