Your pictures
One row per piece: what it is, what it is made of, what size it is, what condition it is in, and whether it could be replaced. This is the sheet an insurer or an appraiser can read, so it holds no addresses and no account numbers.
Essential on a first pass. This is the sheet everything else in the manual reads from: the sizes feed the calculators, the medium picks the rows of the media table, and the replaceability answer picks the board grade and the level. A reader who skips it can still frame one picture; a reader with more than two pieces will find themselves measuring the same thing three times. The condition sheet below it is optional unless something is old or you cannot place it.
Every piece you have
One row per piece. Frame width and height are the outside size of the finished frame, in inches, or centimeters if your setup uses metric; the wall plan can place any row here at that size. Leave a number blank if you have not measured it yet.
Condition, piece by piece
What you can see, not what it means. One row per piece you have looked at closely, with the date you looked. A blank in a column means you did not check it, not that it is clear.
How to use this sheet
- One row per piece, not per frame. A piece that is unframed, in storage or out at a conservator still gets a row; a frame with nothing in it does not.
- Record, do not conclude. The medium, the sizes and the condition columns hold what you observed. Replaceability and the decision column hold judgments you made, and they are allowed to change.
- Frame width and height are the outside size of the finished frame. Those two columns are what Your wall reads when it places a picture on the drawn wall, so fill them in once the frame exists.
- Blank means not measured. It does not mean zero, and it does not mean nothing is there.
- Print it and hand it over. The sheet holds no addresses and no account numbers on purpose, so it is safe to give to an insurer, a framer or an appraiser.
The starter rows are Priya Raman's letterpress print and Hal Brewer's grandmother's watercolor, both invented. The print shows a complete row for something replaceable: a medium, a sheet size, no frame size yet, and a decision that says how it could be replaced. The watercolor shows a condition row written the way this manual wants condition written: what is visible on the front, what is visible on the back, a flag that it needs a conservator, and a next step that is a referral rather than a repair. Replace both with your own rows, or delete them.
This sheet records what you can see and what you decided. It does not value anything, authenticate anything or diagnose anything: an appraiser settles value, a conservator settles condition, and your insurer settles coverage. The replaceability column is your own judgment and not a market opinion. Everything here lives in this browser until you export it, so it is not a backup of anything until a copy is somewhere else.