Hanging panoramic pictures...

[Wood_workur]

My son has some panoramic pictures that he wants to move into his basement bedroom, which only has exposed studs, 16" oc. the problem is, the (sawtooth) hanger brackets on the 3' long frames are 24" oc. I was thinking of streching a piece of wire between the two hangers, and hanging the picture on two nails/ hangers, but what do you guys think?

P.S. The only wire I have is some thin 16 gauge (I think) wire. could that work, or would I need actual picture wire?

[MilDoc]

Personally I'd buy stranded picture wire. That's all I've ever used for the ton of art work I have -- ever since a solid wire I used snapped! But if you don't want the wire to show, why not move the hanger brackets, or install new ones?

[gsmittle]

My son has some panoramic pictures that he wants to move into his basement bedroom, which only has exposed studs, 16" oc. the problem is, the (sawtooth) hanger brackets on the 3' long frames are 24" oc. I was thinking of streching a piece of wire between the two hangers, and hanging the picture on two nails/ hangers, but what do you guys think?

P.S. The only wire I have is some thin 16 gauge (I think) wire. could that work, or would I need actual picture wire?

I had to reread the headline--shows you where my mind is

I'm thinking picture wire is your best bet.

g.

[Tom Miller]

I had to reread the headline--shows you where my mind is

Yeah, come to think of it, Alex, are you sure he said "panoramic"?

Hey, g. started it!


Either way, you could span two or three studs with another board, then hang the picture(s) from that.

Regards,
Tom

[jAngiel]

Since you have exposed studs, hang some horizontal nailer blocks between the studs at the right height. You can secure them with some small cleats beneath them, no one will see them as they will be behind the pics.

[LCHIEN]

Are they so heavy that the wallboard won't support it?
I think you can hang 10-15# pictures on the medium to bigger sized angled hooks with brads angled into wall board. Then you are completely free of the studs.

In my house only the really big pictures are mounted to the studs directly.

Good opportunity to break out that laser levelling dohickey.

[Wood_workur]

there is no wallboard- just studs.

[LCHIEN]

there is no wallboard- just studs.

in that case, just span th e studs with 1x2 or 1x4 as appropriate and put the hanger into the boards.

[Wood_workur]

well, I got them up, and I decided to go with the cheapest route of just moving the hangers. (I had some nails the right length- didn't have to spend a cent)

Thanks for all of your help.