pictures?

NewlyWeds13

We have a picture wall and various pictures hung on walls throughout our house.

Honestly-- I am worried about taking them all down just because I think it will look really blank and the holes, etc (there is no reason to paint otherwise, it is fresh paint in neutral colors).   I could buy postcards and put stupid landscape pictures and other non-sense in teh frames if that might be better?

It is decorated very up to date, etc.

When we looked for houses, we saw lots of pictures up and it never bothered us and our real estate agent said she did not think it was a big deal (we are in an area where houses are selling ok), but I read on here and some staging website about how you have to take down all pictures?

So-- do pictures bother you and if so... why?   Do you think we should leave them as is, put postcards or landscape photos in all frames that are on walls or take them down?  If take them down-- leave little holes, try and cover and have the paint potentially not perfectly blend (we have the paint from 3 years ago when we painted most of the house, but patch jobs never match perfect) or  repaint our entire house (does not seem like we would get that back in return, so not leaning towards this). 

LoveKiss

Pictures never bothered us when we were looking. But if you want to play it safe, buy a few cheap calendars and used books with nice graphics, and use some of those images instead. Or just print graphics that you find on the web and use them in your frames. I would definitely not remove the frames and leave open holes. That would be a turn-off for me.

sarah2280

I put some nice Amy Butler scrapbook paper in some of our frames when our house was listed. I ended up really liking it and kept it in some of the frames after we moved. 

toothpastechica

The pictures never bothered us until we moved into the house and realized how many freaking picture hooks there are that we either have to fill or repaint the entire house because they made a huge mess of the walls. So from a selling point of view, if you are not willing to invest in patching and painting, leave the pictures up, pictures covering holes in the wall is definately better then walking into a house with holes or scrapes all over the walls!