How To Hang A Canvas Painting | House

I absolutely love this lips painting! I bought it at a small arts festival because it’s so bold and colorful. The teal in the background matches the teal I painted my kitchen cabinets so I knew I wanted to hang it in the room off my kitchen. After I got it home I had no idea how to hang it though. So it sat around the house for a year or so until I got my butt in gear. Now that it’s done I figured you might also want to know how to hang a canvas painting.

So damage free you say…

After some Pinterest inspiration (Pinspiration?) I came up with a plan. An easy one too. One that won’t damage your walls so it’s perfect for renters. Or people like me who are afraid they’ll change their mind and have a hole to patch. I put a lot of work into painting these walls, so I think long and hard before putting any holes in them.

Hang a canvas using wood blocks, screws, glue and yarn.

My plan was simple: two wood blocks glued to the back of the canvas, with screws sticking out of them. Then some yarn looped around the nails would hang on a Command Strip.

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It’s always Command Strips, but what else did you use?

Hang A Canvas: measure and glue blocks to the back of the painting

Hang A Canvas: make sure to loop the yarn around the screws securely

I got these wood blocks from Michaels because they were super lightweight. Then screwed in 2 screws on the same spot on the side of each block, making sure they stuck out some. I used Gorilla glue to secure the blocks to the back of the canvas with screws facing each other (after I measured and marked where I wanted them of course). After letting everything dry for a day or two, I hung it with a big loop of yarn on a Command hook.

How’d it work out?

At first the canvas hangs an a downward facing angle.

I didn’t account for the way the painting would hang at an angle. The bottom was touching the wall, but the top was 1-2 inches away from the wall. This made it look like it was facing downward. That might be ok depending on the look you want, but I didn’t like it for this painting.

Command strips help the blocks lay flush against the wall.

Command strips help the hand the canvas flush against the wall.

If I had used taller blocks it would have bumped the painting from the wall more evenly. A Command Strip at the top of each block between the block and the wall was an easy fix. Now it hangs parallel to the wall like it wanted!