Home Style Decorating

Pictures and picture frames are great home accessories that definitely incorporate your own personal taste and style. It can do many things to your room like enchant, delight and most of all interest. The key in achieving this is the proper way that the decors are hung. Here is how to keep you’re your walls safe and make sure your masterpiece doesn’t become a giant disaster-piece.

The first step is to check your hanging surface. If you are hanging a big piece, use two hooks so that it will be supported sufficiently. Different hanging surfaces have different characteristics and hanging method used.

Drywall

This is the most common surface and the softest surface also. Due to its softness, it is recommended that you use an electronic ‘stud finder’ to locate a vertical beam of wood in the wall and hang your picture there, using a screw instead of a nail. If you don’t have one, you can simply tap the wall. The spaces will give an echoing sound and when you hear the ‘thud’ that is where the stud is.

If there is no stud in the space where you want your picture to be, you can still hang up your piece- just use the appropriate size picture hook. These are hooks especially made for hanging pictures. The lighter the frame, the simpler the picture hook. Make sure to hammer the nail in at an angle to provide more support.

For bigger pictures hung on drywall, additional support with a fastener may be required. Besides using two picture hooks, a more reliable way to provide support is to install a toggle bolt. A toggle bolt has ‘wings’ that slide through a hole drilled into the wall and expand after it has been pushed through. It grips the wall from the inside as it is tightened.

Plaster

Although plaster tends to hold fasteners better than drywall, nails are a no-no. Drill a hole on the wall instead and use wall anchors. A wall anchor is a sleeve inserted into a drilled hole that will expand as a screw is driven into it. This will give a little extra grip in supporting the frame and makes sure the screw does not slip back out.

Brick/ Masonry

Hanging your picture frames on this type of wall is the same as hanging on plaster walls with the exception of inserting epoxy into the hole. As soon as the epoxy has dried, you can hang your picture frame. Make sure that the screw or hook that you are using will be able to support the frames because once the epoxy has dried, it will be difficult to pull it out.

The second step is to hang the picture frame. Make sure that the gauge of the  wire that will be supporting the frame is appropriate for the frames’ weight. The heavier the frame the, thicker the gauge of wire needed. This wire should then be attached to screw eyes, which are driven into the wood of the frame about 2/3 up from the bottom. For frames made of metal, there will be sliders in about the same spot. The wire should extend up into the middle of the space between the top of the frame and the screw eyes. If you can see the wire over the top of the frame, you have gone too high.

It will be best to have someone to help you in hanging the picture frames, one to hold the frame in place while the other will stand back and check if the frame is in the right height. Mark the wall at the top center of the frame. This will be your marker line. Flip the frame over then push the wire on the back of the picture up towards the top of the frame (press hard- this is to mimic the wire hanging on a hook) and measure the distance from the peak of the wire to the top of the frame- this is called the ‘drop’. Take the same measurement and mark an X below your marker line on the wall. This is where your picture hook will be hung. Now hang your picture and, with the help of a level, adjust it to your taste. If the picture seems too high or too low, adjust the wire on the back of the picture to achieve the desired result.

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