It really wanted to be in the newly painted living room. It also wanted a better photograph, but you win some, you lose some.
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| Please don't anthropomorphize the paintings; they hate that. |
I think it looks so much better against the olive green wall. A while back the boy asked me about picture rail hangers and I wondered why I hadn't thought to use them before. Picture rail hooks hang from your ceiling molding, which means no holes in your plaster for nails or hardware. And they make it a snap to move artwork around. I found House of Antique Hardware online and ordered these sweet little hooks for about $2 apiece.
They arrived this Saturday so Greg and I spent part of the evening fussing with them. He's an engineer so he was doing things like figuring out the hypotenuse and I've been around paint fumes too much so I was doing things like getting super annoyed that he wouldn't just let me hang the thing freestyle, making small adjustments to lengths and placements a thousand times. That wall isn't going to gouge itself, you know.
I am super bad at letting people help me with home improvement, unless it is the brute strength kind of help. It didn't go very well.
But eventually some combination of math and stubbornness prevailed and we got both the huge rooftop painting (two hooks) and my Battlestar Galactica prints (one hook each) hung from the molding.
Again, this is a terrible photo but they look great in person. I'll post better pictures once the living room is finished.
