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Picture Hanging For Dummies

According to apartmenttherapy

Since the screw basically becomes one with the wood and the little tab, the stress created from the weight of the piece is almost void. If for any reason it did break, nothing would happen. The piece would still hang from the bottom of the soda pop tab itself and stay put. Make sense?

If you can keep the rivet ring intact, even better.  But as you can see here, it’s a pretty no-risk situation.  Just drive that screw in just as pictured here and hook it on a nail. Done.

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Do you have a favorite hack?  Please share! (The jenkier, the BETTER!)

original source at makezine


3 Comments

  1. Carol White says:

    Our Dad used Bread clips

  2. Found a very old picture in a very old farm house with one

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