Hanging Photographs and Keeping them Straight
Tuesday, January 4th 2011 @ 1:43 PM (not yet rated)
I went to a client's home recently to hang a wall grouping with 16 prints! They all needed to be level and straight or it was going to look really bad.
Now keeping things straight is not my strong suit, as Neil will tell you so I knew I was in trouble.
I usually hang prints with picture wire on a small nail and I know that if you use two nails a distance apart, the frame will stay in place much better than with one nail in the center. Then I looked at this project and thought about putting 32 nail holes in the wall. Then I would realize the position wasn't quite right and the 32 holes would quickly become 64 (or more!) On top of that, I was going to go nuts fussing with the spacing. I am just not that patient.
My solution was to use one nail to hang each print and double check the spacing and look of the arrangement (I did have to move a couple of nails). Then I whipped out the level and when I was confident that each print was straight, I used a ball of Stick-Tak, the stuff that college students use to hang posters on walls that won't damage the wall, behind one corner of the print and pressed it against the wall.
Voila! The prints will stay straight and on't have to be repositioned every time someone slams a door.
