I always feel stumped on what art to hang in the bathroom.  Portraits are out.  That’s just awkward.  And lots of people seem to go for seascapes or water-themed art, but that feels too obvious for me.  A while ago I posted about painting agate-inspired art, so for my bathroom I stuck with that geological idea and painted some malachite-inspired art. (Geologists, look away.  Because these are not very technical.  Because, you know, I have all those geologists who follow my blog.)

I told you I was obsessing over emerald green, and I’ve been adding it to my bathroom in accents.  This was another way to repeat the colour.

I tend to hang my pictures differently all the time, but I thought I’d share with you one way to do it that requires no math (this is for a picture frame with two hooks on the back).  This is what you’ll need (plus, nails and pictures. duh.):

Isn’t my level cute?  (I got it in a Christmas gift exchange, which makes it extra special, since I never get anything good in those!  Once I got a little black toad paperweight with red jewel eyes.  Creepiest ever.) And painters tape is a marvellous thing for hanging picture frames.  I use it all the time.  And it’s especially great for spacing out groupings of art.  But I don’t show you that today.  So. Um… where was I?

Take your painters tape and stretch it over the little hooky-hanger-thingie and press down.  (Sorry, is this getting to technical?  I’ll slow down.)

Then poke your nail through the tape into the top of the hooky-hanger-thingy to make a hole.

Here’s a picture of a hole in some painters tape on the back of a picture frame.  This is thrilling stuff, people.

Then transfer that tape strip to the wall and use a level to make sure it’s straight.

Hammer your nails into the wall through your pre-marked holes.

Hang your picture on the nails and use your level again to be sure it’s straight.

Then, because I was hanging an identical frame below the first one, I removed the top frame and created a guide with painters tape from the top nail downward, again using the level to make sure it’s straight.

After that I repeated the first steps with the second frame

I matched up the nail hole for the second frame with the side of the tape guide from the top.  I hammered the nails and I hung the second picture.  And then I went savage and  ripped off all the tape like a mad woman.  Not really.  But you could.

Ta da!  Some colourful, interesting, abstract art for the bathroom!