The flag in the third picture is not hanging correctly. The stars should be on the upper left side, always.

Oh dear, here we go again...

"It's sick and wrong to violate flag code in any way shape or form and anyone who does so hates their country and themselves."

"It isn't your house and not everyone shares your views so let me clean my oven with flag rags in peace."

(Just thought I'd preempt the entire discussion so no one has to bother. You're welcome.)

This is interesting for Americans, of course. I, for one, can't imagine having either the Canadian, or Quebec flags, hanging anywhere in my house. The only flag I could even contemplate would be the Union Jack, just because of all the layers of meaning it carries.

Anthrops and Eeka, ha ha I am cracking up. It's like every post has to be some huge debate about something. So exhausting.

I like flags as art especially when you are far away from home.

Didn't we just have this argument?

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/celebrating-our-independence-yearround-american-flags-in-the-home-149703

Although technically flags I suppose, I wouldn't quite consider the pennant or bunting as flag art. If that's the case, I have a pennant from Archie McPhee that says "AV Department" with an image of an overhead projector on it that's some seriously avant-garde flag art.

And I always wonder about backward American flags. Is it intentional or just ignorance?

This post differs from hanging flags in our home for a few days out of the year for a celebration of something.

Flags as a permanent design element only work if they're hung neatly and securely. Some of the pictures you use as examples are hung well, in my opinion, and others are not. If the flag looks like it's going to fall off the wall any minute now, no thanks.

I've been to lots of apartments where guys who have poor design sense got a flag from living in a foreign country for two years (and serving a religious mission) and then brought it home. Because they just got home, their living experience is all they think about, and the flag is the only thing hanging on their walls. It's drooping, it's crooked, it's huge compared to all the tiny, temporary furniture they have just barely obtained. It makes me flinch, and since it's the only thing that draws my eye in the apartment, I flinch constantly when there.

This isn't even considering people who fall onto the floor in convulsions if I even mention flags falling onto the ground or having holes in them via thumbtacks/pushpins/nails.

I just have a bad experience with flags hanging on walls. Can you tell? Still, some of these examples here have the flag grouped with other things or well-framed. I like the one that is stretched like a canvas. No danger of falling, and I can imagine the framing without staples.

Nothing says "Dorm Room" like an unframed flag stuck on a wall with pushpins...

I have both my nationalities represented in flags throughout my house. but small and really just to show/remind of my other homes. but I would never consider hanging the American flag in my house if its not like the 4th etc. but I don't mind if anyone else does. Its just to symbolic to me and I cant get past that to see the beauty of the flag.

I would hang up the CA flag like my sis did. something about that bear lol.

@Kate The Great: right there with ya, sister. My ex had a largely featureless bachelor bedroom decorated only with random flags, all butted up against the ceiling and each other. It was atrocious-looking. A single flag, yes, but only if done well. Most, in my experience, are decidedly not.

Am also done with the American obsession with a particular kind of patriotism (loud and combative and unwaveringly supportive of the laughable fiction that nothing the U.S. has ever done has been anything less than totally right and awesome). This may be related to my time at Bass Pro Shops corporate headquarters, where, at the behest of the good ol' boy owner, Christmas decorations were not red, white, and green, but red, white, and blue. There is nuthin', y'all, that cannot or should not be covered in those three colors, amirite? It's enough to put you off an otherwise lovely holiday.

I love American flags, and have them in every room of my house.

And yes, there is one stuck with push pins over my TV console....with 48 stars no less.

It could not be further from "dorm room" to me......Take a look for yourselves