PICTURE-HANGING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 20 October 1938, Page 16

PICTURE-HANGING.

When hanging a varied selection of pictures in a large room, the hest plan is to remove the small furniture, leaving only the large pieces in tliejr accustomed places ; but some consideration should be given to the question whether the usual position of the large pieces can be improved, upon. •By removing the small furniture it is possible to place the pictures, face outward, along the skirting board. In this way a rough idea of the best arrangement can be decided upon before the actual hanging commences. The best pictures should bo given pride of place. This usually means that they should he hung where the light, both day .and artificial, is best; but some allowance may have to be made for a choice position where the light may not he quite so good. Bad positions for pictures are between two windows and'dircctly facing a window. The best positions, as a rule, are those in which a good sidelight is in evidence. The stereotyped method of having pictures in pairs has happily disappeared ; but some balance of arrangement should be aimed at. A straight row of small pictures invariably looks w’ell if suspended over, and about ten inches above, a mantel piece. He'niember that a good print is vastlv better than a bad original painting. If you cannot afford a good original, buy one of the innumerable exquisitely-ex-ecuted reproductions.