How to Finish the Back of a Picture Frame

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On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Debbie Reeves at John's Design Center and I'm here to tell you about custom picture framing. Now you always want to have bumpers. What bumpers do for your picture is keep it away from the wall just a hair, so that you get air circulation back there. If you didn't do that, and your wall got moisture in it, it would put mold in the back of your picture. So, now I'm going to put hangers on it. I use these little kind of hangers here. They screw on. The way you do it is you take your tape measure and you measure your frame. It comes to twenty seven inches. You want to go a third down. So, you have to divide that into approximately a third, so that's about eight and a half inches. So, you put your finger at eight and a half and you get a little all, and you poke just a tiny little hole. Now, I've chosen the half inch screws and just put my little screw in there. That's really important that you don't put this too high or too low. You want to go one third of the way down from the top. Okay. Now you have to choose which type of wire you want to use. This is a very light picture so I'm going to use a number four wire. You put it through, but it's real important to put it through a second time. This way it's going to be very secure. Then you just wrap it around very close until you get to the end. Then you want a little bit of an arch on it. So, I just put a little dent where that's going to go on. I give you about that much; about three inches. I do the same thing on this side; put it through a second time, wrap it around and now I want you to be able to go home and hang this right on your wall, so I give you the proper size hangers. On a picture like this, I like to use two hangers. So, when you put it on your wall, it's going to stay nice and flat. So, I put these on the back for you. Then I normally put our little tag, so you know who to call the next time you need something framed. There you go. You have a beautiful back and you have a beautiful front, ready to hang on your wall.

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