Ten frames, that is. I’m popping in today to tell you how exactly I hung the new frame collage in the kitchen, in case you want to hang your own.
First, I laid out the frames on our living room floor in the layout I wanted them hung on the wall. This was a process with a lot of trial and error involved. I had a bunch of frames to choose from and just kept laying them out until I was happy with the result. I probably laid and re-laid about 20 times before I got to the final result. Initially, I was going for a very unsymmetrical layout – lots of different sizes of frames, randomly placed. But then I tried a more symmetrical layout (not exactly symmetrical though, as you can see) and ended up loving it, so I stuck with it.
Here’s where I ended up:
Here are the sizes of frames I ended up using:
The measurements labeled are the inches of the outside edge of each frame; not necessarily the picture inside. As long as you have the inches, you can raid your local store for frame sizes and worry about filling them with the appropriate-sized pictures later. (Thrift stores usually have lots of sizes so maybe check one near you!)
To hang them, I started in the vertical middle of the wall and hung the two middle frames first, working my way to the outsides. I hung the whole collage so it was a little higher than the horizontal middle (ceiling to chair rail) so the girls wouldn’t be able to touch the Last Supper when they were inhabiting their high chairs (an accident waiting to happen!), but I’ll probably move the whole thing down a few inches once we move them to the ‘adult’ table (soon!). I used the same tool I used to hang the first (failed) collage in here; a DIY hanging tool I made following The Scrap Shoppe’s idea. It’s the most amazing tool for hanging pictures, I tell ya! Gone are the days of making paper templates of each frame and hanging those first or measuring a thousand ways to determine nail placement! All you have to do with this handy tool is hang the frame on it, hold it up to the wall where you’d like it hung, and press so that the nail on your tool makes a little mark on your wall where you’ll hammer in the real nail. So easy! If you don’t feel like making your own or don’t have a scrap piece of wood laying around, this picture-hanging tool (affiliate link) from Under the Roof Decorating will do the same thing (and it’s only $10).
I’ll be back tomorrow with details on the stuff I diy-ed in this collage!
Happy Humpday!
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