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Hanging Pictures – Part Two
After a little deliberation, I started my installation of our framed pictures. Hooray.
Then I stopped after one. Boo.
(Inhale…) My husband came home, looked, made a comment that made me think he seemed unsure of the placement, (the hallway isn’t that wide, and the pictures are 8×10 or larger), therefore I became unsure of my logic and decision-making in decorating, so I stopped. Whew, run-on sentence… yes. Now we’re/I’m reconsidering and replanning.
Maybe the frames will go in the dining room now. Everyone can enjoy the pictures, there’s plenty of room… I don’t know that I like the layout so much here. The drawback about the dining room is that there isn’t a lot of light. This could be a good thing too, because we don’t want a lot of direct light on the pictures. (Don’t want them to fade.) Wintertime there’s a ton of light reflecting off the snow. But, the hallway has directional lighting (recessed can lights) for framed art.
I’m trying another layout. Now there’s an empty space for which I don’t have a matching frame. There’s another wall at our living/family room. Maybe I’ll try that spot tomorrow. Can I just hire someone to do this? My patience is being tested, I know.
Hanging Family Pictures Collage Style
We’ve been trying to enjoy the fantastic weather here over the last couple of weeks, so as you might imagine, there hasn’t been much going on inside the house. This includes blogging, writing, house chores and the never-ending list of projects I want to start and those I want (or need) to get done… like fixing a few broken shelves in two closets and hanging up the family pictures.
Why do I find it so difficult to hang pictures? I guess if it’s one frame here, and one frame somewhere else, it’s a little easier, but here I’m trying to compose a nice grouping. Now it’s: how do I center the frames, which picture goes where, how much space do I leave in between the frames, how high do I mount them? I blame this on my type-A, perfectionist, engineering side. So, what to do?
I placed all the framed pictures on the floor and tried to figure out how it might look in different layouts. But, in the end, I broke out some sheets of paper and traced shapes.
I think I’ll be playing with the paper cut-outs for a little while.
