Picture hanging aid.

By wayfarer

Placing a picture on a wall is easy. Calculating exactly where it will hang when it's settled on its cord is another matter. Here's a wee gadget that will help you hang pictures just where you want to. Not my own invention - the idea has been around for years.

Just a thin strip of wood anywhere from 6 inches to a foot long, depending on what size picture it's for. A handle of some sort at one end and a nail driven through the other. Hold the gadget up to the wall, with the picture hanging on the nail. When you're happy with the position of the picture, take it off and tap the nail to mark the wall. Sorted.

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January 16, 2007

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baconthecat

April 17, 2007

I'm going to have to try this one out the next time we attempt to hang a picture! Thanks.

wayfarer

January 16, 2007

Never seen one for sale. But who needs to buy? They're just so easy to make. As I said, not my own idea - can't remember the first time I ever saw one.

I seem always to make them as I need them - I can never find the last one or someone's 'borrowed' it. And if I use one in someone else's house I'm rarely given any choice but to leave it there. But it only takes 5 minutes to make another - given a length of wood and a nail almost anything will do for a handle. I've made them from both wooden and plastic 12" school rulers with 6mm nuts&bolts as both handle and pin, and I've managed at a pinch with a knitting needle with both ends bent over (though the knitter wasn't best pleased).

I've even made one out of a piece of square plywood with two handles and two pins to hang a heavy picture that needed two hooks. Once the principle is grasped, the rest is easy. I'm sure there must many variations.