Carpets have long been out of fashion, but paintings and photographs on the walls are modern, aesthetic and extraordinary. Placement of paintings is one of the most expressive ways of expressing your personality. Given one “but”: if the decorative element is harmoniously inscribed in the interior. Therefore, how to hang a picture on the wall, it is worth considering in advance.
On the one hand, hammering a nail into the wall is not a troublesome task, resolved in a matter of minutes. On the other hand, even the most beautiful landscape can spoil the view of the room, and the simple reproduction of Malevich's “Black Square” will turn the living room into luxurious apartments. In order for the interior and artwork to complement each other, you need to hang beautiful paintings on the wall according to certain rules.
Height
The most common mistake is pictures located too high. Such an image is not contemplative and looks rather strange. How is the optimal level for the canvas determined? How to hang a picture on the wall correctly?
- Stand in front of the place where the picture, photograph or panel will eventually hang.
- Mark the level where the naturally cast eye rests (without raising or lowering the head).
- Mentally retreat a couple of centimeters from the lower edge of the canvas. This part of the image should be at the marked level. But this is provided that the ceilings in your house or apartment are high. If they are low, then you need to retreat not 2-3, but 6-7 cm from the bottom edge of the canvas.
Lighting
Pay attention to how light falls on the picture. Lighting should be uniform, without glare and shadows. Ideal option - individual illumination with halogen lamps.
Picture location
The volume of the room dictates its conditions. It must be taken into account when deciding how to hang a picture on the wall. Vertical canvases give the impression of high ceilings in the room, and horizontal increase the width of the walls.
Grouping Pictures
In the case when it is supposed to hang several paintings on one wall, you should pay attention to their combination with each other. There are three options for harmoniously combining different paintings in one composition:
- on this topic;
- by style;
- by color scheme.
Regardless of how many paintings will be nearby, three or more, keep in mind that the central picture is the main one. The advantage of attention is given to her. Based on this, and plan the spatial distribution of the paintings relative to each other.
Methods of fastening paintings
- If the walls of your room are made of wood or red brick, then the surest solution to the problem of how to hang a picture on the wall is to use the good old and reliable way - to hammer a nail.
- A concrete wall will require a little more effort and a more sophisticated tool - a perforator or hammer drill. With their help, you need to drill a hole in it, screw a screw into it or insert a dowel and hammer a nail into it already. With this method of attachment, the picture will hang securely for an arbitrarily long time. But the desire to outweigh it in this case can be a problem. After all, there will be a hole made in the wall.
- For drywall walls, you need to use special “butterfly” dowels, which are inserted into the prepared hole and abut against the wall with special struts on the back side. Thus, the risk of slipping out of the hole is eliminated over time. Next, a screw is screwed into the dowel in the usual way, on which the picture is hung.
- How to hang a picture without nails? If the picture is light, then double-sided tape is best . In this case, 4 strips of adhesive tape are glued to the back of the web at the corners of the frame.
- Relatively recently, special hooks with a sticky back side appeared on store shelves. The advantage of their use is that they do not leave traces on the wall after they are removed.
- To hang a picture without drilling a wall, thermal glue - the so-called "liquid nails", which are available from department stores, will help. How to use them is described in detail in the instructions. "Hot nails" act in a similar way.
- In addition, special hooks on four studs are available for sale. Let the latter not scare you. After them, almost indistinguishable holes remain on the wall, so these hooks can also be attributed to the gentle way of attaching paintings. With a hammer blow, strong studs are driven into the wall, and the hook is ready to withstand a rather weighty picture.
- Another way to hang a picture without nails is good for light and small canvases. Take not a plastic, but a natural cork from a champagne or wine bottle, cut it in half lengthways or across, screw a screw into the prepared part, and glue the cork to the wall in any convenient way. If you have doubts as to whether your picture will withstand such a hook, then it is more reliable to fix it on two such structures.