How to hang a picture on the wall - fixing the picture on the wall

Beautiful paintings, reproductions, engravings, prints or photographs can transform any house, give it individuality and coziness. Correctly to hang up pictures is a skill on the verge of art, because it is very easy to destroy a single style by an incorrect combination of elements and details of the situation. Choosing a picture, you need to remember that it will not only take up an empty space on the wall, but will give the room a new sound.

Pictures in the interior play an important, and sometimes the main role. In some design solutions, it is around the picture that other decor items are built, and it serves as the center of the interior.

Subjects of paintings

For home choose pictures with a positive theme, do not buy paintings with scenes of violence, war and other horrors. Even if you are a fan of Karl Bryullov - "The death of Pompeii" can be seen in the State Russian Museum, and it is not necessary to hang this catastrophe at home, creating a depressing atmosphere in the room.

The living room will look good images of flowers, animals, landscapes or positive scenes from life.

In the bedroom people rest, so the pictures that captured the storm and the storm, there should not be hung. Although the calm seascape is quite suitable, pacifyingly acting on the nervous system.

The picturesque character of the kitchen will add an appetizing still-life to its harmony of abundance.

For the cabinet of feng shui prompts to put on the wall a picture depicting nature. The cabinet in the classical style will be decorated with a hunting scene, it does not have to be Perov's famous painting "Hunters at Rest", you can hang your own enlarged photo with a hunting trophy. Mountain landscape, if you hang it behind the back of a working chair, will symbolize support, reliability and stability. Images of a river, a waterfall or a lake, placed in front of the desktop, will bring luck and prosperity, but they can not be hung behind themselves.

Landscapes for the seasons are as follows: spring - on the east and south-east wall, summer - on the south, autumn - on the west and north-west, and winter - on the north wall.

Family portraits are a priceless heritage that can not be placed in front of an entrance door, a staircase or in a semi-basement.

Composition

You can hang several pictures on one wall, composing a composition. Observing the symmetry, this is easier. Creating an asymmetric composition, you need to remember that its balance can easily be broken by incorrect placement. Possessing a sense of space and natural taste, it is quite possible to cope with this task.

Baguette

Now you can choose a frame for any, even the most sophisticated taste, visiting the baguette workshop. The frame is selected in conjunction with the furniture, but it should be in harmony with the plot of the picture. So, a massive carved baguette will suit the picture with oil, and a photo or watercolor can be inserted into an aluminum or plastic frame.

If the walls of the room are covered with patterned wallpaper, then the picture frame should be wide.

Wall fastening on wall

1. To fix the picture on the wall, you need to take into account its weight and size. An easy, small picture can be hung on one bracket in the form of a hook. For this purpose, the place where the picture will hang hangs. Using a drill or perforator in the wall, a hole is drilled with a drill for concrete with a winning tip. The drill bit is selected with a diameter of 6 mm. A plastic dowel is inserted into the drilled hole, like a drill, with a diameter of 6 mm, into which the hook is screwed. Fixing the picture on the wall is obtained by simply hanging the picture for this hook. If there is no drill, then a small, light picture can be hung on the concrete wall in this way: a nail is driven into the cork, and the cork itself is glued to the wall by a super-glue. Then a picture is hung on a nail. The plug can be replaced with a piece of wood.
2. How to hang a picture on the wall , if it is heavy? For this you can use two flat hanging plates, they are attached with short screws to the back side of the picture, closer to its edges. Then the picture is attached to the wall, on which the holes are marked. The places of marks are drilled with a drill with a winning drill 8-10 mm in diameter, the holes corresponding to the size of the dowel drill are inserted into the holes, in which a picture is fixed with screws.
3. How to attach a picture to the wall by the method of trellis hanging? Thus, you can hang several pictures of the same size and subject. Under the ceiling, along the entire length of the wall, is fastened a metal bar in the form of a pipe with clasped hooks. They are attached to a double thick nylon line, on which the pictures are hung one under the other. The outer edges of the composition must form a rectangle, then the entire composition will look harmonious.

Outside setting

A good picture is hung in a lighted place, but not under direct sunlight, otherwise the paint will fade quickly. If the wall is not sufficiently illuminated, then an additional special illumination can be installed, which will give the whole interior a modern, refined look.

Medium and small-sized paintings are hung at eye level, and large-format paintings, especially those written with oil, are higher and tilted.

In order for the room to be in harmony, the vertical paintings are balanced by a low wide vase, placed on a table, bedside table or wardrobe, and horizontal - by a tall vessel placed on the floor.