Museum hangers never line a frame up with the top of the sofa or the middle of the wall: the one height that stops the room looking bare
There’s a number that professional curators and framers swear by when hanging artwork: 57 inches. It’s not the top of your sofa, not the middle of your wall, but the precise height where the center of any frame should sit to create that calm, polished museum feeling. Here’s why this one measurement fixes the single biggest decorating mistake in American homes.