Project 9: Eyeball Wall Hanging (DIY for Busy Gals)

This is a vintage post from B3Home Designs Part 1.
It was posted on Augst 30, 2010

31 minute project
 

You'll need:
Kraft Paper
Small head nails

A window with blinds

Eyeballs (preferably, your own)

 

You are going to eyeball how to hang your art

like I did with these bird plates:

Okay.
So I'm not really going to hang eyeballs

on the wall.

Not anytime soon at least.

BUT.

I do have top down honeycombs

on most of my windows.

{edited to delete “what my dining room looks like now” commentary}

By now, we all know

that I'm a pretty lazy DIYer

Okay.

Not "lazy"
Just crunched for time

and always looking for a shortcut

So here's my latest shortcut

for hanging similar items evenly

on either side of a window.

Start with your blinds pulled all the way up

(note: they don't have to be top downs,

i used the bottom edge to do my eyeballing)

I pulled my blinds down about 6 inches

and used the bottom edge of the blinds

to be the top edge of the paper cut out

of my piece that I was hanging

Tacked the paper to the wall
on each side of the window

like this:

I pulled the blinds down some more

remember, I just eyeballed this

so no idea how many inches.

I was hanging three on each side,

so I just pulled the blinds down

about halfway down the window

After the halfway pull

I pulled them down again

about 6 - 8 inches

again, eyeball it

Voila.

If instead of just using flat tacks

you actually use smallhead nails you will use

to hang your art,

you can actually pull your paper placeholders

right off the wall

and the nails will pull right through the paper

And if you just throw your art down on a bit

of butcher block paper

and trace the outter edge

you'll have paper placeholders for your art

that you can tape up

before you knock a billion holes into your wall

Just saying.

Happy crafting

and don't forget

to check out this post on

how to make what I hung up

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