I lay mine on a bed then stand on a ladder. Not too far up though I have a fear of heights. However, since the upstairs is my sewing room and only used when we have overnight guests which are family anyway that I might attach some hooks to the ceiling and use cord and a long pole of some type that I could lower, attach the quilt to, then raise the rod back to the ceiling. It's all in the planning stages for right now though. I'd have to have some kind of double hook on the wall to hook the cords on too.