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Summary: Learn how to use a tape measure to easily yet cautiously measure your picture for the proper-sized frame. Learn more about the importance of framing art and photos in this free video series.

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Debbie Reeves John and Kathleen Mudersbach have been in the framing business for 40 years and their children, Larry and Debbie, joined them in their business in Cottonwood ... read more

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How to Measure Your Picture for a Ready-Made Frame

On behalf of Expert Village, I am Debbie Reeves at John's Design Center and I am here to tell you about custom picture framing. Here we are going to measure for two different pictures. These are going to go into ready made frames. So we are going to measure those a little bit differently. The first one is the smaller one. This frame is an eleven by fourteen. So, I measure to make sure that the outside is eleven by fourteen. So what I do is I put my finger on the fourteen and then put it on my picture. I look to see that my opening is going to be at three and a half. So what I do is, I cut that in half and I make it half of three and a half, which is one and three quarters. So, I know that my mat is going to be one and three quarters on the side. But, on the top and the bottom, it comes to three inches, so I know that my top and my bottom are (cut that in half) one and a half inches. So, on this particular picture, my mat is going to be one and a half on the top and the bottom, and one and three quarters on the sides. Now, we look at the same picture in a bigger mat. This one happens to be a sixteen by twenty. So, we do the same thing over again. I put my finger on the sixteen, put it on the picture and it comes to seven and three quarters. Well, you know, unless you are really good at math, what is half of seven and three quarters. So what you do is, you go to eight. Half of eight is four minus an eight of an inch, so you know that it is three and seven eights on the bottom. So, we want to make it simple. We don't want to have to be a mathematician. Then, on the sides you put your finger on the twenty, it comes to nine, which is different. So, half of nine is four and a half. So, on this particular one you are going to have four and half inch margins on the two sides and three and seven eights on the top and the bottom. Okay, so that's how you measure for a ready made frame.

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