How To Hang Pictures Without Ruining Your Walls
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Hanging picture frames can be a royal pain, especially frames that require multiple wall hooks.
Before the existence of fancy laser levels or cool tools, like the ones I’m about to show you, my grandfather taught me how to use scotch tape and string to make it a little neater than marking pencil lines directly on the wall. You’d first decide how high you’d want your photos and take the string to one end of the wall. Then with a level you’d level the line and tape the other end of the string on the opposite end of the wall. But often the string would move or fall off and it was never perfectly level.
The Black & Decker’s 36″ Gecko Grip Level with Accu Mark is a new spin on a traditional level. It’s most useful feature is the Gecko Grip friction pads that help keep the level steady and prevent it from slipping with little pressure.
It also has 2 adjustable targets that slide back and forth on the level and are used to easily transfer the spacing between your picture hooks to the wall. You simply slide them to line up with the mounts on back of your pictures and then move the level to the wall and note the spots with a pencil.

To make things even easier you could also use a laser level such as Black & Decker Bullseye Auto-Leveling Laser With AnglePro which sticks to your wall and projects an autoleveling laser beam along the wall’s surface.
It can even project the laster vertically and on angles to make lining up your pictures in stair wells. At under $30.00 it’s a steal and even the batteries are included.
If you purchase both the Black & Decker’s 36″ Gecko Grip Level with Accu Mark and Black & Decker Bullseye Auto-Leveling Laser With AnglePro your order should be eligible for free super saver shipping.
Pricing, rebates, free super saver shipping, and other promotions maybe subject to availability and restrictions.

One Comment
a gindin
July 10th, 2008
at 6:14pm
museums and other intelligent people use picture molding. available at your favorite big box store. stain and rub on a coat of varnish. nail about 2 inches below the ceiling. buy some hooks from Light Impressions. use 50 lb test fishing line and eye hooks on the frame. two cork bumpers at the bottom and you can move your pictures every day and never leave a mark on the walls. if you rent, an air hammer with 10 p 2 inch nails will do nicely. eeb