We used a laser level, which you might have noticed in some of the pics above. Or use a level, if you’re gonna get all geeky about it. Then to make it level, just do that adjust-a-little-then-step-back-and-look-then-adjust-more thing. Hammer your nail right into that spot, then hang your frame on the nail. Press the screw into the wall just hard enough to leave a little mark, which is exactly where you’ll hammer your nail. (This is where having another pair of hands is… um… handy.) Hold the frame against the wall in the exact spot where you want to hang it, then, holding the paint stirrer contraption very still, take the frame off the wall. Insert former into latter, so it just barely goes through the other side.
We’ve already established that most of my decorating decisions are made out of impatience, so a trip to the store to drop $15 on this admittedly nifty tool was not in the cards. It was not in my possession at the exact moment when I wanted to hang the frames. (A small price to pay for sanity, certainly.) But more importantly:Ģ. Nice, huh? We were getting closer, but still not there yet. A little googling produced this handy tool: When my husband Andy and I set out to hang a grid of six Ribba frames in our guest room like I showed you here, we determined there had to be a better way. Normally, I would have to work up a complicated mathematical algorithm to establish where the center of the wire is positioned on the back of the frame, add the height of the wall minus half the height of the frame, calculate the sine and cosine of reciprocal tangent, then throw up my hands and drown my sorrows in dark chocolate. I’d like to ask that you reconsider this choice, based on the fact that anyone trying to hang these frames in a grid style is likely to suffer fits of rage and frustration, probably ending with them hurling the frames from a tall building to watch them smash satisfactorily upon a cement sidewalk in a giant wooden mess of Ribba intestines.ĭon’t worry though I found a solution and we can still be together.Īs you can see, finding a solution that makes hanging these Ribba frames in a neat grid was of utmost personal importance to me. It’s about the Wire-Across-the-Back hanging hardware you include with your Ribba frames. If you didn’t already make your own chocolates, I’d buy you some, then go canoeing with you on a placid lake holding a lacy parasol while you sing me tender love songs in a rich baritone. The assembly, the inconvenience, it’s all worth it for you, Ikea. A give-and-take: I give you my money, then take home your boxes of furnishings, sprawl out on my living room rug surrounded by wood parts, screwdrivers, hack saws, drafting compasses and whatever these things are called– - assembling your furniture watching my husband assemble your furniture with a smile on my face. Up until now, our relationship has been a beautiful expression of lasting love.
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