Picture Hanging the Easy Way

Last night after finishing cleaning up the entryway of paper clutter, I noticed that I had some entryway clutter of another kind.  Here some keys, there some coats and everywhere some shoes shoes.  My goal for today was to clean up the rest of the entryway mess to leave myself with a fresh, clean space to walk into on a daily basis.

I rounded up all the shoes and threw them into the closet.  Okay more like I neatly stacked them into the shoe cubby in the entryway closet.  Here I also hung up all the winter coats and other items not in daily use.  That just left things like keys and coats, sweaters we are currently using.  What to do with these items that will otherwise get thrown willy nilly onto the couch, bookshelf or other available surface as we walk in and dump.

As I blow a puff of air upwards to get rid of the offending tendrils of hair hanging in my eyes, I place my hands on my hips and sigh as I do a slow circuit of the room wondering how to solve this problem.  As my eyes scan across the floor by the bookshelves, I stop and do a double take as a shaft of light halos the perfect solution to my problem, a coat rack/shelf that can be mounted just inside the door.  Bingo.  Now how to hang it?  Always the hardest thing to do and why I still to this day have yet to hang any of the numerous pictures I've accumulated over the years.

I almost give it up in regret when I decide maybe I need a little help from Pinterest and those pioneers that have gone on to hang beautiful pictures perfectly centered with the ease of an amazing plan of action.  Ten minutes later after searching for the post in question (stuck it in the handyman board) I jump in triumph and realize that this is going to be much easier than I had made it out to be in my head.  Observe.

Step 1:  Gather your materials.  This was actually the most time consuming part of the post.

Painter's Tape (didn't have any, ended up using some left over moving tape)
Hammer
Nails
Level (used an app on my phone).

Step 2:  Use the tape to span the distance between where the object will hang on the nails.  I placed the tape from the middle of each hole.  Sound easy?  It is and there really is no catch.

Step 3:  Peel off the tape and then place it on the wall where you want to hang the object.  Here is where the level comes in handy.  Use your level to make sure the tape is hung straight.  Then use your hammer to place the nails in the wall on either edge of the tape.  I placed them at the top corners of the tape so that they would be level. 

At this point I was a little bit alarmed as I could hear stuff falling down inside the wall.  No idea what it was that was crumbling as I pounded a couple of very small nails in the wall, but hopefully it didn't damage anything too important.  *Nervous giggle* 

Now that the nails are in the wall, you can peel off the tape and hang the object.  It's just that easy folks.  If this were an infomercial I would totally be sold.

Have a great day, see ya tomorrow.  Wish me luck.