Then hang your pictures on the wall and readjust as necessary.
How to hang pictures on the wall evenly.
On saturday we worked a few hours hanging pictures and unpacking more boxes.
Now we divide that 40 by 4 to give us an interval.
We used it a couple of times already once for hanging pictures and the more recently to hang 4 plates on the wall.
How to hang artwork evenly in a row.
Evenly spaced horizontal placement.
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.
Walks you through through the steps and tells you exactly where every nail goes for evenly spaced pictures across the wall.
Mark a spot on the wall the same distance from the top step and the bottom step and run the string between these points.
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.
I didn t measure the exact distance between the top and bottom row of pictures just eyeballed it.
But although it may seem easy hanging a picture properly is much more than a haphazard task.
Two pieces of string stretched taut between pushpins provide a guide for even spacing.
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.
If you re hanging a group of 4 pictures just repeat the same steps for the second row of pictures.
How i hung my group of 4 pictures.
In reality i hang all of my artwork using this same method even if it isn t a group of pictures.