how big is it? would be nice if we could see the painting and an angle from further back.

Normally people hang their art too high. should be at eye level. that's about 60" from the floor to the middle of the piece.

I’m more just wondering about wires and stuff if the nails will hit something

command strips!

how heavy is the picture? lol. all you need is a small nail. the wires usually are flat against the inside. so unless you use a 2" nail, you should be fine.

Studs are every 16" on center, so that should give you a guide. (starting from the right, move in from that corner stud and count 16". a stud should there. they're spaced every 16". if you're lucky and one is in the middle, you can hang it on that.

It looks like a piece of art there will be far too high.

IMO it will too high but really we need to see the painting and the wall from further back. The center of the piece should be at about 63” from the floor if that helps.

Your question is, can you safely hang a picture over the electrical boxes.

I don't know that anyone can definitively answer this as we do not know what type of idiots may have worked on your home. My niece bought a home that was over 100 years old - took a lot of the home down to studs. They found extension cords buried under the drywall along with a ton of knob and tube wiring. I owned a 1700 sf home that had 3 main panels and bundles of wire in the attic that were 8" in diameter (electrical engineer owned the home prior to me).

In a normal home, hanging pictures poses little risk.

Here is what things should look like inside your walls.

You have drywall over the studs and the wires should be another 1 1/2 inches in from the inside of the drywall. Either nail directly into the stud or use a screw with an anchor at least 3" away from the center of the stud, use a screw or nail that is no longer than 1 3/4" and you have eliminated 99.9% of the risk.

A good indicator of how the wiring was done is how the main box looks. If you have a jumbled mass of wires that looks like a rats nest you are in trouble and I would have the electrical inspected and fixed prior to worrying about hanging pictures. Otherwise - hang away and if you are super paranoid or don't want holes in your wall use command strips instead of nails.

There are also some tools that will located both studs and live wires inside walls. I have not used such a tool and can't speak to their reliability, but I am sure there are some good ones.

We would hang it about here

Arrange a grouping around and hide items in full sight!

What about right here?

too small now! lol.

art over couches, 3-6" above the back of the couch, and should be 2/3rds as wide.

so if you had two of those, it would work. but you need to lower it a foot

Or here

that would work. now measure up from the floor to about 60" to the middle. right now as he's holding it, it's too high.

Agree that by slider works. Nowhere else with that picture.

Picture is squashed into that space. Keep looking.

Better yet, install an art ledge about 6" or so above the back of the sofa. It needs to be at least 3/4 the width of the sofa and can be wider. Prop your picture on it and prop another picture or pictures beside it. Google for ideas but here's one Ikea has them, for one.

Size out your picture sizes with blue tape. This will help for the future.

Try to center the picture 5' above the floor and have a border of wall right and left of it that is at least 25% of the picture's width. It would look nice on a wall where more light could help us see the subject matter.