How To Hang Artwork On A Large Wall

Save yourself the frustration and your walls the trauma of hanging and rehanging and rehanging a grouping of art.

How to hang artwork on a large wall.

Make things easier on your end by tracing the frames on a paper and using painters tape to create a layout on the wall before you have to put holes in the wall. Pictures that weigh over 20 lbs. To be exact the center of a framed piece of artwork should be 57 inches above the ground that being the average human eye level and the height galleries and museums use to decide where to hang. Measure 2 hanger locations on each artwork.

The simplest way to hang pictures on the wall is to hammer a nail into the wall. Pull the wire toward the top of the object to simulate the wire s position when it hangs on picture hooks. Place a finger on either side of the hanging wire about 2 to 3 inches 5 1 to 7 6 cm from the edges of the frame or canvas. Mark the hanging points from the back of the art onto the kraft paper.

Instead trace each piece on kraft paper label the tracing and cut it out. Move the pieces around until you have an arrangement that you like. If you re hanging portraits draw arrows on the paper to indicate which way the subject is looking. We usually hang large and medium pieces 2 3 inches apart and smaller pieces 1 5 2 5 inches apart.

Then tape the paper to the wall and hammer in the nails.