You’ve hired people to hang up pictures?

Unless you’re hanging an extremely heavy picture frame, you don’t need a fastener into a stud to support it. I’ve always used a finish nail into drywall at a slightly upward angle, which should be sufficient to hang the wire or the little bracket on for most reasonably-sized picture frames.

If you’re talking about a massive painting or something like that, you can look up tutorials on YouTube for finding studs and attaching screws to them.

Stud finder. Whether you're looking for a stud or only want to hang in drywall, it's handy to know where the studs (and things like drain waste vent pipes) are.

If it looks straight to you, it's straight enough ;) Once I figured that out (along with realizing that I didn't have to hang things at the recommended height), it made hanging art so much easier!

How much does your painting weigh? Hiring people or buying powertools seems like overkill, but maybe you live in the Hermitage and these are 50 lb behemoths.

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