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Hanging pictures, tapestries and wall art isn’t as easy as it looks. At least not if you want to hang them precisely on the first try it isn’t. By the time you centre the frame on a particular section of wall, then determine the ideal height, you’ve still got to measure up or down from the edge of the frame to find the spot for the nail. This is the tricky part. It’s more than easy to be off by enough to make the results look shabby. And things get more complex when you want to hang more than one frame side-by-side, all at the same height. It’s for reasons like these that a surprising number of people claim incompetence when it comes to hanging pictures. It’s also why Liette Tousignant and Kelly Krake spent 10 years bringing a simple plastic tool called Hang & Level to market. For $20, it may well be the cheapest relationship counseling you’ll ever find at a Home Depot.
Liette and Kelly are a wife-and-husband team who operate ‘Under the Roof Decorating’; a Calgary-based company that helps people decorate their walls. Liette found that one of the most time-consuming parts of her work involved hanging art quickly and easily.
“As an interior decorator, my biggest frustration was hanging pictures or any other wall decoration,” explains Liette. “Hanging ‘stuff’ in the right place on the first try was definitely a hair-pulling experience. You know how frustrating it is to hang something on your own walls, so just imagine the pressure when you’re paid to do it while a homeowner is looking over your shoulder.”
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