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This job is a great example of something we do a lot of - hanging pictures which appear to be at "eye level" but are actually way up high in a stairwell. Our client had a kitchen counter with a staircase hidden behind it, and a great big empty wall over the stairs. Naturally he wanted to fill the empty space with a few big pieces of art, but how do you get such a big piece so high up on the wall without risking life and limb? Well, you call us, and we bring our special adjustable stairwell ladder along with our extendable scaffold board.
It still feels a little risky when you look down from the walk board, so we're very careful, and we work in a team for safety. As a matter of fact, the ladders themselves can be fairly dangerous if you don't know how to use them... they can break your fingers if you don't know how to close them the right way. That's why this particular job is best left to the pros. We actually ended up hanging three pieces over the staircase. The last one was a Peter Max piece which added a little punch of pink.  The big pieces were painted by noted folk artist William Tolliver. His biography from invaluable.com is interesting: Notable African-American artist William Tolliver was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1951. Though he lacked formal education and grew up impoverished, he went on to teach himself art through books he found in the library and those brought to him by his mother. His mother, who loved to draw, encouraged his painting after she noticed his talent. Using inexpensive oil pastels and watercolor sets, painter William Tolliver recreated his everyday environment growing up in Mississippi. Notice that both images include a pot-bellied wood stove. It reminds me of the way the local Appalachian convenience stores in the mountains near Asheville will still sometimes have a woodstove for the old men to hang out around in winter time, and pick out a tune and retell old jokes.  While we were there, our client also had us install this picture in the main bedroom. If you peer through the swoops of color, you might recognize a piece of the downtown Asheville skyline.  Big prints like this can be tough to hang by yourself, especially when you're maneuvering around a bed like this. That's another great reason it's helpful to have us around.
If you've got a piece of art that you really love, but you're concerned about safely hanging it, it's probably time to call in the pros. Comments are closed.
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