I am still in the middle of painting my house, so instead of hanging anything up I am taking everything down. I put together some pictures that I would love to frame and hang once I nail into my walls again. http://turningithome.blogspot.com/2013/01/put-frame-on-it.html

I have one left to hang. I moved some furniture and it can't go back to where it was. So - thinking about it.

I've been staring at the awkward space and off-center art created when we rearranged furniture over a year ago. I claim it was because of grad school that I never got around to fixing the picture but if we're being honest, it's more because I'm lazy. The picture (and a little of my laziness) will be remedied this afternoon.

This is perfect timing! I am actually hanging three pieces of artwork above my couch - we had a floating shelf there, but it was crooked and we were tired of it. I'm using velcro 3M tabs because I'm tired of making and filling holes.

Checked the art in the lr. Honey asked what I was doing. He said that art should be hung at the eye height comfortable to the residents and not some average. I pointed out that almost all our art was at the 57 in on center. so we must be average. lol!

We've just moved into a new-to-us home - hanging photos/art is my big project for the month. I've already had our newest family photo framed (and I've hung it!). The insurance adjuster is here today, replacing some glass that was broken in the move. And cosmetic changes to the basement are almost finished. So it is time to hang! I will work on this today!

Love the Cure - and love that it is in January - an otherwise blah month. This is exciting stuff!

LibbyP

Be careful with those 3M hangers. I've had more than one fail. You wouldn't want something falling on your head while sitting on the couch! Especially if it has glass in the frame. Ouch!

I would pull and tug after you get it up there and they're cured for an hour. And when you do your regular cleaning, take the pieces down and make sure they are still secure. Trust me! I had something come down after three years and then when I put it back up it fell back down two days later taking, and breaking, other stuff with it.

I went on a framing and hanging spree this past weekend, including hanging this grid of prints from Etsy artists, friends, and vintage sources. So happy that AT kicked my butt into gear to get it done!

Another way to make sure you have the spot right is to cut out a large piece of paper (newspaper or something) in the exact size and shape as the art. Use tape to hang it in the right spot, mark right on the paper and hammer the nail straight through. You can just tear the paper away.

As a tall person, I end up having to plant my feet a couple feet apart and hunch my back over like a question mark in order to view art that is hung at average eye level.

57"? Geez. That seems so low! I get that's an average, but that's a full foot below my eye level! At least my boobs would have a good view. Plus I have 9.5' ceilings, so I try to place frames based on their size and their relation to the furniture nearby.

As for the cure, I framed one photo and hung it, but I only just ordered the frames for my main project. Haven't printed the pictures yet either, so I probably will not finish until February.

57" does seem quite low to be an average eye- level. I´m 161 cm´s "tall" (= rt )and 57" reaches my chin.
I´m more than game for hanging art significantly lower than peeps usually do, but this measurement is most curious.
Of hanging art- I usually need to get on my toes to get a closer peak on so many homes and I´ve made a friendly compromise with mine. I take the measurement on taking at around my eye- level plus a few cm´s higher. Just so that others don´t have to look at the lovelies with their boobs.

( =shrimpish ) writing with laptop often challenges my patience... sorry for the typo.

Hang Art Day has been on the calendar for weeks. Luckily it fell on an evening we are both home. We need to evaluate our existing and new art and that involves both of us. We have been considering some different approaches. Tonight we are going to make a home cooked meal together and hang some art. Since there are some existing holes that are pretty high, tomorrow might be Wall Patching Day.

When I worked at a museum, we hung the work at 57" center and it always seemed to look great.

My big project last year was remaking our spare bedroom into my home office, and it was 90% finished heading into the new year. Hanging art is the last big piece of the project to finish - then only one small and one tiny task left and it will be completely finished. I am (almost) deliriously happy!!

That's so pretty, TanjaLA!!! Well done.

Can't hang my artwork until I get the picture rail up, which won't happen until I get the rest of the trim on that wall and a door done and do some painting on it, which is sidelined at the moment because of another project - making an armoire out of a chest of drawers. It's gotten completely out of control, starting as a simple set of shelves set on top, now it's closed in and I'm making doors and putting some fancy trim on it. I have a picture hanging in my mind of what it should look like, now I just have to get it out the ends of my fingers into the real world.

Catiaelizabeth... the CENTER of the art is at 57" not the top of the art.

Thought I was all set to hang my pics, but decided last night that I want different frames than the ones I have. Will try to get to Ikea after my meeting tonight, otherwise will hang pics tomorrow. I do have one piece to hang tonight. It's a frameless piece of "artwork" from my childhood that I've been wanting on the wall forever. Tonight's the night!

I can't hang my new focal piece yet because it's in a student gallery right now (I can't help bragging about that—I'm very proud since I worked for four years to try to get into that gallery! LOL). But I'm having the hardest time trying to decide where to put it. It's 7' tall and 5' wide. I'd love to put it downstairs so people can actually see it, but I'm not sure where the best place would be. Maybe I'll do a blog post with pics of possible places to hang it and let others decide.

I actually hung my art early on the weekend. I found the perfect spot and it makes me happy every time I look at it. It's in an "out of the way" spot so I feel "sneaky" putting it there as it it's my own very special art, just for me.

clickchick, I understand that it's the center. But that would mean the top of a 24" tall frame would be right at my eye level, which is still low for me, and for the height of my ceilings. But then again, I'm tall, so all sorts of things are too low for me.

This topic has made me a crazy person. In directed in the assignment, I enlarged one travel photo and had it framed. It looked so great- I did three more. Then decided to move all of my art around to make the right places for them So, this one assignment ended up being entire "reinstallation" of art all over my house! very happy!

Thankfully, I hung up 2 photos 2 weeks ago. So I'm using today as an additional catch up day :)

Just out of curiosity, I measured some art placement on our walls. They are hanging at 68" at center, my eye level. I would have to be far too stooped using 57" as a placement. Hence the tall in tallsarah :)

I am still considering where my textile wall hanging will go.

I got a little creative with my 'framing'. Since my piece is a little different (embroidered mayan hieroglyphics on fabric), I wanted the framing to be subtle but different. I used a tobacco stick! Since tobacco is no longer grown by my family, we have lots of leftover tobacco sticks. I used one that was nicely twisted, and attached the top of the fabric around it. It sounds simple, and it was.

FYI... a tobacco stick is used in the process of harvesting tobacco. It is a piece of wood about 1 inch square in diameter, if it was cut. A more uneven diameter, if it was ripped or hand hewn. The length is about 4 feet. They are great as walking sticks, fencing, any sort of plant support.

@inkstainedwriter

I echo tarainsevenvalley's warning about the stick-up hooks. They might work great for temporary installations like holiday wreaths, but I'd worry about expecting them to work permanently. I live in Southern Arizona where they usually only work for a couple of weeks. The dry air dries out the sticky and what you hung so securely a couple of weeks earlier is on the floor. If you don't live in a dry house (consider furnace use, too), then you might give it a go. In Arizona you can buy, for instance, felt tabs for chair leg feet and when you open the package, they're totally dry and won't even attach for a minute.

I love the room in the photo. Was it on a house tour?

Another voice against 3M sticky hanger. I hung 5 inch diameter mirror, and it came crashing down in 2days. Thankfully no injuries... I have had to nail a lot of things now. I wrote to 3M, they sent replacement sticky things. Still the same issue though.

For the first time in a couple of days, I'm actually on target for today's tasks! Got my framing order back from Costco on Sunday and already put one up in my office at work and the remaining two are going up on our "picture wall" tonight. *pumps fist excitedly*

Now back to pretending that my kitchen is still clean from the two-weeks-ago Cure assignment...

Thanks for the warnings about the 3M stickies. I usually only hang really light stuff with them, but it's definitely tempting to use them on everything! These are small canvases and I want to reposition them with the velcro because getting it perfectly straight stresses me out. So far, it's working fine, but I will keep an eye on them.

If in Philadelphia area I highly recommend Flying Pig frame shop

sorry for the unrelated post, but that light fixture is awesome!

Done and done. The art is framed and up on our wall! That's no guarantee that it will stay there since we change it up pretty often, but it still felt goooood.

http://shoes-off-please.com/2013/01/29/hows-it-hanging/

I've already hung up a few pictures around the house during this month. Mainly on my stairway which I've intended for a mini gallery for a while now. Not quite done but pleased with my efforts so far. So tonight I didnt hang any artwork but I did hang the new clock I bought in a January sale. Does that count?

There's been a few comments about the 3M strips. I've used them for a few pictures around my house as its really difficult to get hooks in the walls without drilling with a masonry bit. British councils built some solid houses in the 50s! I've had no problems but I only started using them a couple of years ago and on nothing too heavy.

I agree that the light fixture is great. I'd love to know more about it. I like the art, too, but that I know about.

The photo is from the Jan. 2 home tour that designer Sally Breer did for Alan Yang: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/alan-yangs-retreat-in-the-hillshouse-tour-182014
I'm not sure but I think that she designed the light fixture. I want one too!

Gilit, I'm loving your posts about the January Cure! Thanks for linking to your blog.

Worked from home today and was able to hang a couple of things (don't want to be hammering on the walls of the apartment at night!) One thing I've had framed and waiting to hang for ages, so this was a great kick in the pants to just go ahead and do it!

The photo is great. I think a Fender Stratocaster is a work of art too. Especially in black. ;)

Art has been done for a while. Not a fan of the 3m hangers; mine fell off once the warm weather hit last summer (lightweight abstract wire art) but took a bit of the stucco off the wall. Trying to find where to get a copy of that Lichtenstein print, but so far, nothing. Any ideas? Also, like those small lamps.

Lost the catch up day yesterday. Combine a 12 hour work day with being sick...the only thing I wanted to catch up on was Nyquil and sleep. My art went up last week. And the project is sort of done.

My focus has been on a tight budget and using stuff I had already. I bought a basic black poster frame for an artist-signed poster that I have had since 1996. It is a print by the French watercolorist, Guy Weir, that I bought at his workshop in Southern France. Since I was on a bicycle tour of the Dordogne valley, its image of a bicycle in a field of poppies evokes fond memories. You can see an image of it on his website. http://www.guyweir.com/English/gallery.html?panel=5#posters

that's truly interesting about hanging art at 57" on center. so just now i went around measuring and i'm all over the place. my natural center is higher than 57". and i seem to hang smaller pieces at my personal eye-level center (too high?). but then i concluded that i tend to consistently hang all my large pieces lower than 57" on center (too low?) and more in relation to what's in front of the art. i'm going to have to revisit art height as i paint each room and rehang pieces. too bad that i didn't know realize this rule of thumb as i just hung artwork throughout the month on my newly painted bedroom walls.

I bought a small painting that was done on paper from an etsy painter that i love and I was able to get a black gallery style frame from target. I didn't spend much but it makes a wonderful impact and looks expensive!

Jennifer, thank you so much! I'll trade you a purge for a meal!

Oh my, well, went a little overboard with the "frame your art" assignment! Since Aaron Brothers was/is having their twice yearly big sale, I went ahead and got frames for, oh, I think 14 things. They were NOT fancy or costly by any means, and I got a smattering of variety so everything would not be matchy-matchy. I used them mostly for an art wall where I had what was supposed to be a modular display of my daughter's art work, but it ended up being pretty stable, so I just framed a lot of the pieces and hung them back up. I also hung some art in my room that had been leaning and I am planning on moving a few other pieces around. I took a couple of photos. Please visually disregard the lower right corner. The piece with her academic awards is leaning and not an official part of the display, but it will have to stay where it is for now. In the context of the room, it doesn't really detract from the overall effect. Anyway:
http://i.imgur.com/dziq08P.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xfihQsr.jpg

I was extra-motivated at the beginning of the Cure - I framed and hung not one but seven pieces of art! So this was definitely a catch-up day for me to clean and straighten up, since I haven't been home much the last few days.

Dear Apartment Therapy,

I cannot believe the month is almost over! We made the move from a condo into a house on January 2nd, and before the move, I was eager for some new artwork. I found this Bianca Green For Society6 “You Make Me Home” Art Print on Urban Outfitters' website. It was [is] perfect. My guy graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy, we both love the ocean, and this is the place where we’re dropping our anchor for the time being. It was the perfect addition to our home, so I bought it. Thank you for encouraging me to have it framed . . . otherwise, most likely, it would have set in its packaging for months ;) there's a pic of the final hung product on my blog:

http://www.luckylittlemustardseed.com/2013/01/end-of-the-tunnel/

Thanks again for The January Cure. I can honestly hear the "ting" sound of clean in every room ;) I'm one happy lady.

I am a big fan of the 3M Command Hooks and use them all over my apartment. I will say that I've had one issue with a hook coming down but I don't know if it's because I didn't use rubbing alcohol first to clean the spot and it was the cheapest flat paint apartment landlords use in a bathroom. I have heard from a friend that she found the type of paint influenced the hooks stay-ability.

A month late but I finally got some art on my walls! Better late than never ;)

http://living-with-lemons.blogspot.com/2013/02/live-laugh-love.html

Another late addition:

http://citydogcountrydoghome.blogspot.com/2013/02/hanging-colorful-quilt-in-my-city-home.html