FRAMEMOUNT
Hang art and photos like a gallery — free calculators for picture-hanging height, gallery-wall spacing and layout, frame-and-mat sizing, hanging-hardware weight ratings, and salon-grid planning, plus plain-English guides to arranging and displaying wall art.
From finding the right hanging height and spacing a gallery wall to sizing a frame, rating the hardware, and planning a salon grid, FrameMount pairs free hands-on calculators with practical guides and a richly illustrated museum of frames and galleries. Hang it right the first time.
Picture-Hanging & Gallery-Wall Calculators
Free tools for every wall — hanging height, gallery-wall spacing, frame sizing, hardware weight ratings, frame-and-mat sizing, and salon-grid planning.
Picture Hanging Height Calculator
Get the exact nail height that puts your art on the 57-inch gallery center line, from its height and the wire drop — plus the resulting top and bottom edges
Gallery Wall Spacing Calculator
Turn a wall width and a row of frames into even, centered spacing, with the total width, the side margins, and a center mark for every frame
Frame Size for Wall Calculator
Right-size art for the space — enter the furniture or wall width and get the recommended art width at about two-thirds, plus the clearance to leave above
Hanging Hardware Weight Calculator
Match hooks and anchors to the weight — the right picture-hook rating for one or two hooks, and whether you need a wall anchor or a stud
Frame & Mat Size Calculator
From a print size and mat border, get the mat window, the glass and mat-board size, and the finished outer frame — the whole cut list
Salon Wall Grid Calculator
Plan a tidy grid of matching frames — the total count and footprint from rows, columns, size, and gap, and centered margins on your wall
Hanging Reference Tables
Hardware ratings by weight, art size by furniture width, row widths by frame count, and hook heights by frame height — computed from the FrameMount calculators
Gallery & Framing Museum
Step into an illustrated museum of how art gets framed and shown — the craft of the frame itself, from carved and gilded moldings to the mat that sets a picture off; the great galleries and Paris salons that shaped how paintings are hung; the easels, pedestals, and mantels art lives against; and the portraits, murals, and tapestries themselves, each in its own gallery, so you can see where the way we display pictures came from.
Tour the museum →From the Blog
Fresh guides on picture hanging and gallery walls, frame and mat sizing, arranging art over furniture, and the hardware that holds it all — plus tips for laying out a wall you’ll love.
Eight Hanging Mistakes, and How Big Each One Is
Most hanging mistakes are not judgement calls that went badly — they are arithmetic errors, and each has a characteristic size. Knowing the size makes them…
Hanging on Walls That Are Not Plasterboard
Most hanging advice assumes plasterboard over timber studs. A great many walls are not that, and the fixing that works beautifully in one is useless or…
Where the Hook Actually Goes
Getting a picture level is easy. Getting it level, at the right height, and in the right place on the wall, on the first attempt, is a matter of marking…
Three Sizes: Ordering Glass, Mat and Frame
Ordering glass, a mat and a frame means knowing three different sizes, and they are all different from the size of the art.
Planning a Salon Wall Grid
A salon wall — a tidy rectangular grid of identical frames — is the most forgiving arrangement to plan and the least forgiving to execute, because any error…
Spacing a Row of Frames Without Guesswork
A row of frames looks effortless when it is right and obviously wrong when it is not, and the difference is entirely in the arithmetic done before anything…
Keep Learning
Plain-language know-how on picture-hanging basics, arranging a gallery wall, frames and matting, and displaying wall art — everything you need to plan a wall with confidence and hang it straight.
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