Maybe you like to scour flea markets for portraits of strangers or even  do it yourself pieces to save some cash— but then how to hang a picture  when you have it? Yes, we‘ve all taken a hammer and nail to the wall without  determining or worrying  excessive in a pinch (sometimes that’s the only  method to get it done), but there are tricks amp underpinner of the trade to make the  job of  showing your art on the wall a  little bit more inviting, and the results more  interesting.  Stopped  overlooking that stack of frames on the floor beside your bed and have at it. Here are our best  suggestions for how to hang a picture like a pro.
 
 How to Hang a Picture
 Modern  Bed Room and Stamberg Aferiat in Shelter Island  New York City
Even high-end art– like this trio of Ellsworth Kelly works– benefits from leaning, which adds a textural touch when other works (like Kenneth Noland’s lithograph Quartet, here) hang nearby picture framing hardware. Paul Warchol
 
 1.  Choose a  method. The weight, size, and shape of the item you’re hanging and the  product of your walls both need to be  thought about before you  even get near a hammer. Can I drill into brick? What about tile? Will my plaster walls hold anything and what the heck is a stud? We‘ve got you covered with these four common wall-hanging myths, busted.
 
 2. Gather supplies. Besides a hammer,  determining tape, and pencil, you’ll need the following  materials to hang art on plaster or drywall hangers (essentially more weight-bearing  materials for  much heavier  art work):.
 
For light-weight pieces: small nails For medium-weight pieces: picture-hangersFor  much heavier pieces: a big nail and a stud-finder or wall-plug anchors, screws that fit them, and a screwdriver.
 
If you’re  holding on tile or glass, you’ll need good-quality, low-profile adhesive hooks rather than nails and screws, and if you’re  holding on brick, use brick clamps. (More on mounting on those surfaces, here.).
 
 3. Hang the thing. Yes, there is a semi-science to the art of getting the height of a piece  perfect— it’s called measuring (!). To be exact, the center of a framed piece of  art work  ought to be 57 inches above the ground (that being the average human eye level, and the height galleries and museums use to  choose where to hang pieces). Mark that height  utilizing a pencil, then  determine to find the middle of the wall (from side to side), and mark where the two points  satisfy. That’s where the middle of your  art work  ought to go! Now,  determine the distance between the middle of the piece and where it will catch the nail (either where the wire  strikes when bent to bear weight, or where the saw tooth  wall mount is.
 
 Step that  distinction from your mid-point mark on the wall– that’s where the nail (or picture  wall mount, or wall anchor, or brick clamp) goes. If you’re hanging a super-heavy piece,  initially use a stud-finder to locate a stud and see if it  remains in a  sensible  place for your nail to go. If it is, hammer a big nail in and be done. If the stud is in a  odd  place, use the anchor-and-screw  approach  rather: Drill a pilot-hole, tap the plastic anchor into it, then screw a screw into that, leaving it to protrude  simply enough that you can loop the wire or saw tooth right over it the same way you would with a nail.
 
How to Get Creative With Your Display.
 
If you’re not up for hammers and nails, just lean it. The laziest  method to  show art is also best for  anybody who is afraid of putting nail holes in the wall: lean the frame against the back of a chair, or the wall, or on a  rack  someplace. (Even homes with  great deals of art hung up on the walls take well to a  couple of casually leaned pieces– it  in fact looks very  deliberate!).
 
If you’re always re-arranging, consider a picture  rack. If you‘re into the whole leaning thing and want to formalize a place for such activity, consider adding a shallow picture  rack in one of your rooms. It’s a perfect  service for those with constantly changing styles (or the rearrangement bug).
 
… Or a  image rail. If you‘re into the  concept of sparing your  valuable walls from holes but  desire a more formal  appearance than leaning, consider a picture rail: a sliver of molding that goes up near the ceiling, from which you can hang your art on hooks and strings– and then change it out whenever you feel like it.
 
Leave some pieces unframed.  Possibly you‘ve collected some of those paintings on boards from the flea market— lovely peeling edges and all— and want to preserve some of that  appeal without paying for a  expensive  drifting frame. Or  perhaps you  simply want to hang up wispy paper  illustrations and  stop? Leaving  specific artworks unframed is completely fine, even encouraged. Just follow these  suggestions and  collect these  materials to tack them up without fanfare.
 
Break some  guidelines. When considering scale and placement and whether to lean or frame or, or … take a deep breath. Here are our  preferred art-hanging rules that we  like to break. Now go put all your art on display!

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