How to hang a picture

In the current context rehanging your art collection is one off those jobs you give yourself after you've cleaned out and reoganised all your kitchen cupboards and wardrobes  and rearranged all your books on the shelves.

Here's a page about "How to hang a picture" which you might find very useful.
This page covers:

• TIPS on how to hang paintings, drawings, fine art prints and photographs
• Basic kit for hanging pictures
• How to hang art in a frame on a wall - including tips for using specific frame hanging fixture kits
• Specific hanging tackle: D rings, picture wire, picture cordand stud finder!
• How to hang a heavy picture on a wall
• How to hang and align pictures.

Hanging gear laid out in a frame at Green & Stone, Chelsea

The page also brings together on one page all my previous writing about how to hang art.

• How to hang a painting - using mirror plates
• How to hang a large or heavy picture - using heavy duty hanging hardware
• How to hang a picture - using D Rings
    

More posts about framing

 

• A list of recommended picture framers - framers who are recommended by artists who have used them - on the artist's website or blog.
• How to mat and frame your artwork - a summary of my tips about how to mat and frame artwork
• Protecting your frames - passing on a tip from my framer about how to avoid damage to your frames
• Spending on frames: 
• The POLL: Exhibition frames: How much do you spend per frame on average?- and the responses and 
• overview of the results How much do you spend on exhibition frames on average? - The reason I've chosen exhibition frames is because when we are framing for ourselves we can either put up with something very cheap or spend a lot of money.