Pictures... Who's worse - you or your S.O.?
 

So I'm in trouble at the moment... Someone help me out; tell me I'm not alone...

Is anyone else really anal about hanging pictures 'just right' - ie having them at matching elevations; with 'correct' spacing depending on where they are etc?

My wife walks around with a hammer and nail, slaps it in, says "that's good" and I'm 20 minutes per picture getting it just right... I think she's nuts, she thinks I'm nuts :mrgreen: (ok so we know she's right). She's really upset because I just redid a few of the ones she hung :lol:

I'm with you. I have to measure everything and space it all just right and at the same levels. My husband is like your wife. So needless to say he does not get to hang any pictures :lol:

I don't measure, but I'll move a picture around about 4-5 times in order to make sure it looks just right.

I agree with your wife. level and exact is the old prude way, the more modern way is to have various sizes in various locations like a collage..

I like it as it is more simple to hang pictures now :mrgreen:

Steve

I hang the picturess because hubby is always busy with his other love....his aquarium. I hang a pic and if it doesn't look right I hang it again. What's a few extra holes in the wall.......the picture usually hides them. :biggrin:

We are both anal about hanging pics. I, the husband do not want more than one hole in the wall. So I bought a stud finder (electronic). However, the wife has the say as to where they are hung. And she has to have them perfectly level and spaced. The elevations are always correct. You can always lengthen/shorten the hanging "wire"

I do like my pictures level, as for perfectly spaced I'm not that picky. I also have a stud finder with a laser level so that helps out.

Ok, so maybe I take it to extremes... I wish all our pictures had similar mounting hardware and sizing spent an hour with the two "matching" frames over the mantle, one just somehow kept ending up an 1/8" low (sitting here on the couch its driving me nuts - bottom of the 'low' one looks higher :bad-word:)

We wont get into the toys I have to mount... Today's pile of tools was a line style laser level (self leveling - dewalt DW087K), a hilti laser plumb (PMP-34), Didn't need a stud finder all little stuff today... also had the 6' and 2' levels out... May have had the hilti laser tape and 2 regular tapes out.

I never want to move again... Much nicer place, but all this picture hanging is going to drive me mental :mrgreen:

You know there is light at the end of the tunnel. I moved as well. It will all be over soon.
I like your collection of tools already

Yeah, it's nice to have a good collection of work tools at your disposal...

Now I just need a couple sharks with friggin lasers on their heads man!

I think you should count your blessings, things could be worse. At least she's helping. She could do nothing and then be super anal telling you things don't line up properly and make you redo it 100 times before she's satisfied from her viewing angle which happens to be the couch. I'm not talking about anyone in particular btw :lol:

As long as the picture stays up Iam pretty impressed with myself. I am only fanatical when it comes to my tanks. Nobody touches them heck I don't even go away because of them and people think I am crazy, I don't see it.

Aha, a man that knows who to put pictures up the manly way! :P

I want to get one of these: http://www.plslaser.com/product_specifications.htm#4 (PLS 180)

Those PLS are pretty nice... I may have to have a look see at those.

We went through a bunch of leica's; hilti and various "semi-industrial" (ie the dewalts, bosch, makita's etc) line lasers before we settled on the dewalt's... Accuracy on most of them is amazing - I have a bit of an issue with the dewalts line width (nowhere near as fine as the hilti and leica's) but still miles ahead of the good ol water level :)

I keep eyeballing some of the new survey laser gear - leica rep showed me a new toy that I'm hoping will be available next year, all in one rotating / broadcast / plumb / rangefinder... It was a great tool - was thinking it was broken when we tested... Turns out that shifting number was the buildings wind deflection @ the roof...

Basically you could set the tripod in the middle of the building and it would scan in the whole room into a 3d cad system. Then you could walk around with the remote - and check for square/plumb (all paralax corrected etc). Just scared to see how expensive that bad boy will be...

My wife's a interior designer, so human dimensions as it relates to art hanging, funiture, etc. are all done precisely... but 20 minutes is too long even for me... :)