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32 Comments on I don't know picture hanging from Adam.
Chris: This is an extreme example of art hung too high.
Valerie, good one! Like Sally , I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every print I've seen hung too high! They are usually hung by men LOL. Art is supposed to relate to the piece of furniture it is hanging over... bed, table, sofa. When you suggest they lower the art you get resistance because it means fixing the wall and repainting LOL. Art is not supposed to be floating out in space.
Do what I did . . . make friends with a great decorator!
Valerie,
Good post. You are supposed to be able to look right into the middle of the picture. I think it's to be set for someone 5 ft 6 in.
Brian
Valerie, being a visual person, I went to the photo before your words, and knew what you had to say. It is so disturbing when people hang things wrong.
Hi Valerie--I see this so often that I wonder what "rules" people are following. For most people this isn't even eye level. I am always telling people to move their art down and they think I am crazy, so I usually carry a page of "rules" for hanging art that I give them.
This post was a two-fer. Great advice about the hanging of art and how to get my blog to look better, too. Thanks Valerie!
Pamela has a good suggestion but I just hire it done, I may not know Adam but I know Eve LOL
Janice: Have you ever taken down a picture and found a myriad of holes? All of those holes are open for viewing when people move out their stuff.
Pamela: Now you are thinking - good friends with talents.
Brian: A little here or there but never craning your neck to look high enough to see the picture.
Ellen: I was itching to change the height but it wasn't my house or my clients.
William: It is strange. Don't these people ever go out and see how other people hang art?
Janet: What an excellent idea. If you hand them a piece of paper with some guidelines then they can make the decision to change or not change and, please dear heavens, if they want to follow your advice, it is right there.
Ron: Definitely go to iPiccy. You will love it.
Charles: and when I moved into my current home I knew Doug (the decorator).
But the hole in the wall they needed to hide was up high...
Tim: Now, I hadn't thought of that - but it makes sense that it was not the current owners but the previous owners who had hung something too high and these owners had to hide it. Mais ouis!!!!
That's funny.
Unless that's a house full of baxketball players, the picture is way to high.
Eye level is the rule.
Good morning Valerie,
One of my clients was a former basketball player and 6'10"...first thing I did in staging his home for sale was to lower every picture in the house!
Lenn: Eye level would have been so much better than the way this picture was hung.
Lisa: so true - when the house is on the market it is a product for sale and needs to appeal to the wider (aka shorter) market.
When I did a blog series last year on the "Five Most Common Mistakes I See in People's Homes" this was one of them! I too see it all the time. However, people from certain countries hang their artwork 2-3" from the ceiling, it is their cultural style.
Shar: I think you are right about certain ethnic groups finding this the standard. It must be cultural.
Valerie, I have my own theory on that. I think it all goes back to the school age when we all went to the field trips visiting fine art museums. That was the first dramatic impression on the young person. Kids are not tall so they had to look up. For many of them that field trip was the first and the last one LOL. So people are under the impression that it is up to the standards to hang their art work high.
Anna: Now, I had not thought of that. Of course, the first introduction to artwork at the gallery and you are only 4 feet tall. Explains everything!!!