How To Hang Pictures On The Wall Evenly

Two pieces of string stretched taut between pushpins provide a guide for even spacing.

How to hang pictures on the wall evenly.

Evenly spaced horizontal placement. In reality i hang all of my artwork using this same method even if it isn t a group of pictures. On saturday we worked a few hours hanging pictures and unpacking more boxes. Mark a spot on the wall the same distance from the top step and the bottom step and run the string between these points.

I feel kind of dumb in retrospect but i just couldn t figure out how to hang two pictures on a wall evenly. I didn t measure the exact distance between the top and bottom row of pictures just eyeballed it. Here are five favorite tips for taking a one hole approach to hanging a picture on the wall. Now we divide that 40 by 4 to give us an interval.

Use a d ring on each side of a frame for secure picture hanging. This technique is also useful for hanging pictures along a staircase. Then hang your pictures on the wall and readjust as necessary. If you re hanging a group of 4 pictures just repeat the same steps for the second row of pictures.

Fortunately after decorating many houses over the years and being a serial re decorator i ve perfected a way to hang artwork right the first time. I couldn t figure out the math to make the space between edge of the wall and the space between the pictures the same. But although it may seem easy hanging a picture properly is much more than a haphazard task. First we ll find the horizontal placement for these pieces by subtracting the total width of all three paintings 20 20 20 60 from the total width of the wall 100 60 40.

How i hung my group of 4 pictures. We used it a couple of times already once for hanging pictures and the more recently to hang 4 plates on the wall.