Hanging art, temporarily?

Post date: 2021-03-03 06:10:23

What is the state-of-the-art in hanging things on walls temporarily, as in apartments? Difficulty level: Moving relatively soon, want to avoid management company coming after us for wall damage.

My wife and I are trying to make our 1br apartment feel a bit more home-y, a year into looking at white walls 99.9% of our lives. We'd like to hang some pictures -- we have some art framed, but it's all leaning against a wall because we previously wanted to avoid making holes in the wall and having to deal with patching and/or security deposit forfeiture due to a management company that's known to be very uptight. The other factor here is that we're hoping to move to a larger place soon, as long as some job/commute-related uncertainty works itself out, so I'm sort of hesitant to go pounding in nails I'll just have to patch in a couple of months.

I'm aware of 3M Command strips, but have bad luck with paint damage when removing those in the past. I think it was due to cheap institutional paint (this was in a university building 10 years ago) but I'll actually take a penny nail over a giant paint tear.

In college, I rented a room in a house that had crown molding intentionally designed for hanging art (from a wire/hook that allowed you to hang stuff at any height, move it around, etc). It was lovely and I want it back, but I've not seen that system in any rental since then...

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