Picture Hanger Wire

Deciding to hang pictures in a room represented the easiest decision to make. Artwork enhances the ambiance of a room, as well as stimulates conversations among guests that visit your home for social events. Hanging pictures also increase the value of your home, with the value of the jump in price commensurate with the value of the artwork. Yes, deciding to hang pictures is easy, but deciding how to hang pictures can cause some consternation.

One of the most common and practical ways to hang pictures involves attaching a wire to the back of a frame. Hanging pictures using wires takes little work. The bulk of the work is discovering how to balance a painting or photograph on the objects connected to picture wire. You also have to be aware of how much weight a picture wire can support and the durability of the wiring used to hang pictures. Another decision is the proper height for hanging pictures with hanger wire.

What Are the Mental Health Benefits of Hanging Pictures?

We already discussed how hanging pictures enhances a room’s ambiance and increases a home’s value. However, hanging artwork does much more than elevates a room’s atmosphere and your bank account. It also can have a profound positive impact on mental health.

According to a study released by Harvard University, paintings, photographs, and other types of artwork have a powerful positive impact on mental health. This is especially important for someone who suffers from an anxiety disorder. Artwork often calms the brain, which mitigates the negative mental health impact of issues such as acute anxiety.

Although you can put a price tag on a home’s value, you cannot put a price tag on improved mental health.

What is the Best Material for Picture Hanger Wire?

Choosing the correct type of picture hanger wire boils down to two viable options –stainless steel with zinc or chromium. Both types of stainless steel wire deliver incredible durability, which means you can attach large, heavy paintings to stainless steel wires.

Stainless steel with chromium is an alloy that contains 10 percent chromium, which boosts a wire’s resistance to the development of rust and corrosion. Stainless steel blended with chromium is the right choice for hanging pictures located in high-humidity rooms where moisture over time degrades less resistant materials such as copper and aluminum.

Stainless steel with zinc prevents staining when the wire comes in contact with water. This is the correct type of picture hanger wire for artwork displayed in an outdoor living space, such as a gazebo or pavilion. Manufacturers design stainless steel with zinc wires by hot-dipping stainless steel into molten zinc.

What is the Right Height to Hang Pictures with Hanger Wire?

Although six feet typically is the standard for hanging pictures with wire, the standard is not set in stone. The reason for the possible variation from the six-foot standard concerns the placement of objects such as furniture and bookcases. A tall bookcase requires you to exceed the six-foot rule by attaching a picture hanger wire above the tall bookcase. For furniture such as sofas and easy chairs, the general rule is to hang pictures with wire about one foot above the furniture’s top sightline.

Learn More About Working with Picture Hanger Wire

For more than five decades, Walker Display has provided picture-hanging solutions for public and private clients. Our clients include the Douglas County Museum of Art and History, the Sherman County Historical Society, and the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.

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