How To Properly Hang A photograph

How To Properly Hang A photograph

Are your pictures too high? Too low? Are there extra nail holes behind those family pictures on your wall from when you tried to "eyeball" it?

If you don't have the faintest idea how high a photograph should be hung on the wall, or know anything about grouping pictures or designing an arrangement, don't despair-- there is hope.

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Hanging a photograph sounds easy enough, but the reality is there are many elements to this deceptively easy process that can make it frustratingly difficult and leave you with a ridiculous number of holes in your wall from failed attempts. Luckily, there are a few tips that can help you avoid butchering your wall and almost certify your pictures will be sitting pretty.

First, remember that the center of a photograph should be at eye-level. This applies to a grouping of pictures, too, only using the center of the combined collaborative instead of the individual piece. Because height can vary dramatically from someone to person, the default estimation is almost 66 inches from the floor to the center of the object. There are exceptions to this rule, of course. For instance, if you are hanging a particularly large painting or mirror, 66 inches isn't all the time spatially correct. Adjust accordingly and with great prejudice. Remember, too much "eyeballing" can lead to too many holes.

Another good rule is to use two photograph hooks with photograph hanging wire on the back of your frame. This prevents shifting and tilting, so you won't have to be forever straightening your pictures. It also provides extra retain for heavy objects. To decree where to place your hangers, part and find the center of your picture. From this point, part equal length to a point that's about half to two-thirds the length of the picture. You will need to remember how far these hooks are settled apart from the center when ultimately driving the nail, so make sure you write it down or commit it to memory.

Now, the occasion of truth: hammering the nails (or drilling the screws, which may be a best selection for authentically heavy objects. Using wall anchors with screws to hang your art will by all means; of course keep things where they're supposed to be.) When deciding how high to hang your picture, don't forget to part it first and find its center. You will need to part from this point vertically to the wire and add x number of inches to 66 to allow for this space. Mark on the wall lightly with a pencil 66 inches from the floor where you want the center of the photograph to be. From there, you will use a level to mark two more places the length from the center to the photograph hooks (you wrote it down, remember?). This is where you want to put your nails. After you hammer them in, it's just a matter of hanging you picture!

If you have more than one photograph of the same size and need to repeat this process, it is easy to hang them together symmetrically. If you have complicated pictures of varying size, sketching out a mixture before trying to hang them is a good idea. It can help to visualize the smaller pictures as pieces of a larger whole.

How To Properly Hang A photograph

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