Do you know how to hang a picture correctly?  If you're like most of us, you hold it up to the wall, eyeball where it should go, then give an educated guess as to where the nail needs to be hammered in.  This picture hanging strategy is wrong. Your pics end up too high on the wall.

Here's a trick art galleries use. The center of whatever you're hanging should always be 57 inches up from the floor.  As in the center of the picture, not where the nail goes.

That way the whole shebang is at eye level, and you don't have to crank your neck to look at it.  If you or your family is taller or shorter than average, it can be anywhere from 56 inches to 60, to fit your eye line.

Get a rough idea of where the nail goes and hammer away.  If it's half-an-inch too high or too low, who cares.  You also can get all math-ish and do it correctly.  Here's how:

Measuring how tall the painting is, and divide by two.  Then measure from the top of the frame to the picture wire when it's tight.

Subtract that from the first number, and add 57 inches and that'show high off the floor the nail needs to be.

 

Source: Yahoo

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