Hanging Your Artwork

Tips on Artful Picture Arranging

Practice:
Measure out the amount of wall space you have to work with and work out your arrangement on the floor.

Composition:
Consider your grouping as a single unit.

Space:
Your arrangement should hang closely together. If you have too much space
between pictures you lose the visual effect.

Order:
With the exception of a round grouping, hang pictures so that they form at least
one horizontal and one vertical line.

Color and Texture Balance:
Pay attention to color and texture when working out your arrangement. Keep the
weight of your composition well distributed.

Create Visual Excitment:
Definitely mix and mingle pictures in different shapes and sizes, keeping the weight of the composition well distributed.

Accessories:
Don't forget to include lamps and wall sconces into your arrangement!

Scale:
Consider proper scale when decorating your walls. Support large furniture with large wall hangings and small furniture with small wall hangings. Hanging small pictures over a large sofa or large pictures over a small loveseat will appear awkward and disrupt the balance of your room.

Distance:
When hanging pictures above furniture the rule of thumb is between 6 and 8 inches.
If not above furniture, hang your pictures at average eye-level.

Avoid Unwanted Nail Holes:
To hang the picture at your chosen height you will need to measure how far from the top of the picture the hanging wire will hit when hanging on a nail. If the top of your picture should hang 72" from the floor, and the hanging wire hits 4 inches below, your nail will have to be 68" from the floor centered with your picture.
(Use a light pencil mark on your wall!)

Tips on Hardware for Picture Hanging
Our hardware is free with your custom framing. Based on your needs we will select the best hardware option for your artwork and wall condition.

Strength and Security
Always use picture hangers for strength and security. We recommend using two
hangers per picture for strength, security, and maintaining straight placement.

Heavy Artwork (Oversize artwork and Oversize Mirrors)
Drywall: For artwork up to 150 lbs. we recommend using 2 Floreat hangers (75 lb.)
on the wall. Two strap-hangers (or "D- Rings") should be attached to the artwork with no wire. Strap hangers hook directly onto floreat hangers in the wall. Weight is
distributed between the hangers.

Boats, Mobile Homes and Commercial Use:
Use security hangers that anchor all corners of the frame.

Decorative Hooks:
Typically used for hanging light-weight objects.

Ceiling Mouldings:
Many older homes have ceiling mouldings from which you many hang framed art using "Moulding hook" or "S-hook" hardware, decorative chain, and cording.