Strut Your Stuff

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September/October 2004
By Laura Daily 
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Art Hanging 101

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Deck the walls like a pro with these tips from Deborah Coburn, who first recommends you get another person to help—hanging pictures is so much easier with two!

  • Position art on the wall and adjust it until your eye tells you it’s right. Keep it connected to the furniture below. If there’s no furniture, sixty inches from the floor to the center of the art is the rule of thumb.
  • Mark the center of the top of the frame on the wall, using a pencil.
  • Pull the center of the hanging wire up and taut, and measure from the top of the arc to the top of the art.
  • Back on the wall, go down this distance from your pencil mark and make an X. Put the bottom of the hook at the X and hammer in the nail. Erase the top pencil mark and hang the art. Use your eye or a level to make sure the art is straight.

Create a Floorplan

Before you start rearranging, create a floorplan and furniture layout of the room in quarter-inch scale (1/4 inch = 1 foot), suggests Coburn. Measure the room at the floor level, noting all doors, windows, vents, and built-ins. Draw your floorplan on quarter-inch graph paper and make quarter-inch scale cutouts of the furniture for that room. Then proceed with the furniture placement tips, moving the cutouts around until the room feels balanced and all pieces are in relationship. This method sure beats moving heavy pieces of furniture more than once.

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