A Picture Hanging Tool

[olderdan]

Been doing it that way for years just hanging the picture on a tape measure to measure the drop. Offer the picture up and put a post it on the top edge when she is happy. After our house move we had to hang around forty pictures, went ok but I wish I had made that tool before hand. For hard walls I pull the pin from a cable clip (they don't bend).

[Floradawg]

Great idea.

[desbromilow]

I built my version of this tool with a much longer handle so I could hold the picture up from the underside, move it around the wall for her, and once happy just lift the picture off, leaving the tool (with it's pin) in place.

[gatz]

and then “can you move it 2 inches to the left?”
— resets picture to new location —
“umm, how about 3” higher?”