Hanging or Placing Your Framed Mirror
Your frame is provided with hangers to place it horizontally or vertically.
There are various ways of hanging your mirror or art, but we want you to do it well and safely.
We suggest you read these indications before even taking out the frame from it’s packaging.
1. Choose a place. The weight, size, and shape of the frame you're hanging and the material of your walls both need to be considered before you so much as get near a hammer.
2. For safety reasons we advice our customers to use studs and nails to hang frames due to their weight and dimensions. All our frames are fitted with heavy-duty hangers and we encourage our customers to use them for safety reasons.
Please consider the following when planning the placement of your frame:
As mentioned before, please determine the material your wall is made from. I could be bricks, tile, concrete, drywall or plaster? All these options need to be considered before starting the task.
3. Gather your supplies. Besides a hammer, measuring tape, and pencil, you'll need the following supplies to hang art on plaster or drywall.
All our sizes and frame types need to be considered from medium to heavy weight pieces. When taking on the task you’ll need a big nail and a stud or wall-plug anchors, screws that fit them, and a screwdriver.
We advice against hanging your frame on tile or glass or bricks using adhesive hooks or brick clamps.
4. Hanging your frame. There is a semi-science to the art of getting the height of a frame just right. It’s not complicated; the center of a framed piece of artwork should be 57 inches above the ground, being the average human eye level, and the height galleries and museums use to decide where to hang pieces. This directive doesn’t apply to floor mirrors.
5. Methodology: Mark that height using a pencil, then measure to find the middle of the wall (from side to side), and mark where the two points meet. That's where the middle of your frame should go. Then, measure the distance between the middle of the piece and where it will catch the nail (either where the wire hits when bent to bear weight, or where the saw tooth hanger is.
Measure that difference from your mid-point mark on the wall—that's where the stud and nail or wall anchors go.
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