Not so long ago, I took an old, spent blackboard out of my kitchen and resurfaced it. I hung a mug rack in its place, so it was time to hang the blackboard in a new location. Hanging heavy and practical things, as well as hanging picture frames, has become old-hat to me, but it wasn’t always so. It still requires some effort, especially when you have two points of contact for hanging. So since I made a basic tutorial for Instagram when I first did it, here’s a detailed DIY about how to hang stuff.

Concrete walls are outside of the scope of this DIY, but you can still hang art on a concrete wall with the right kind of hanger, or by using a hammer-drill with a masonry bit to mount anchor screws.

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