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Picture Hanging 101
Put that hammer down, and read our advice before hanging and arranging pictures, art, and other objects.
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"When hanging paintings, galleries use an arbitrary 59 or 60 inches from the floor to the center of the art, which puts it at eye level," Nordan says. It's a good idea to place your central piece by this method, and position other pictures around it. "In our dining room, I asked my husband to sit in a chair so I could gauge the distance from his head to the bottom of the chandelier," she says. "By determining this visual space, I then placed my art -- and it worked!"
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