While the very last step of your portrait process is to sit back and enjoy looking at your portraits on the wall, the step right before that is to actually hang them on the wall. This step can be daunting if you also need to purchase hardware to hang your new images. As family portrait and senior portrait photographers in Riverside, we have a lot of experience hanging art on the wall. That experience has given us a lot of insight into what products we like the most! Hopefully, you will also find this helpful!
Picture Hanging Tool
While you don't absolutely need this...we think it helps.
The great thing about this tool is that it is a multitasker. You have a level or two to get those pictures perfectly strait. Each of the three buttons on the bottom have nail behind them so you can place your picture at the perfect location and just press down to mark where you nail will go. Lastly, they usually have a ruler on them to make sure that you wall galleries are perfectly spaced.
You can find these for less than $20 and they are worth every penny to make the job easier.
Decorating Nails
If you purchased your canvas or framed print from us, the back will be finished with either a sawtooth hanger or a wire hanger. Either of these products is easy to hang with these awesome decorating nails.
They come it two thicknesses depending on the weight of what you are hanging. Here is what I love! The nail is pin sharp and spiral so it actually screws into the wall as you hammer it. This actually makes them more secure. The flared head is wide so it keeps the nail from slumping down. The best part really is that since you nail them perfectly perpendicular to the wall if you used the hanging tool above to mark your spot your canvas or frame will be exactly where you want it on the wall. Gone are the days of your image hanging lower than expected because of an addition hanger that is lower than the nail!
Canvas Grips
While we don't cell canvases with unfinished backs we do offer some really modern Standout outs (you can see them here). Standouts have an open back with a hanging block installed. This allows the piece to be completely flush with the wall - pretty cool right? The downside is that hanging them can be hard because they need a ledge to hang on. Sure you could cut pieces of wood and mount them level on the wall where you want (blah blah blah lots of work and stress). Or you can just get these Canvas Grips by ReadyNail.
There maybe other brands but these are the ones I like and I can only find them at Lowes. What is great about them is that the are small plastic blocks with a grip edge and two sharp nails. When I use them I actually tape them with the back of the standout on the hanging block and then press them into the wall exactly where I want them. Then I remove the standout (sometimes the canvas grip stays sometime not) and use a hammer to nail the Canvas Grip into the wall where the holes were previously made. This is super easy and can be used to hang an entire gallery. You will not regret getting your hands on these (the included level is trash so...)
Spacer
If you find that you are hanging a gallery of prints (and I hope you are) you will want to make sure that they are evenly spaced. I have found that the old iPad charging block is a great spacer to keep your images perfectly separated. You don't need to use an iPad charging block but the point is you need something that will give you the space you want that you can easily slide between the wall art you are hanging.
So these are a few of my favorites. Do you have a product you love to use to hang art in your home. Please share in the comments below if you do.
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