5 ways to hang a bunch of pictures to best effect

Before banging a nail into a wall, it pays to give some careful thought to your picture-hanging strategy. — dpa/Christin Close

Hanging a picture is simple – you just hammer in a nail and put it up, right? Well, not necessarily. The hard part is deciding where the picture will work best in a given room.

“You can do a lot wrong, ” says German designer Katharina Semling. “People find something beautiful and hang it up wherever there is space, but often that doesn’t work in the context of the room.”