How To Hang A Square Plate On The Wall

The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on.

How to hang a square plate on the wall.

If it doesn t take the hanger off the plate bend it and place it back on to see if it s where you need it to be. Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of. To hang the plate drill a drywall screw into the wall leaving it about 1 4 from going all the way in. Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop.

Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw. How to hang plates on a wall. How to hang plates on a wall with adhesive discs. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers.

I personally hate them. Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs. They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to the wall. Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option.

This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates. I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point. Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate. Determine your placement for the plate to hang and add a small strip of hot glue along the inside rim of the back of the plate.

Clean the back of the plates. Tape the templates to a wall. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate. Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle.

Activate the glue on the adhesive discs. They tend to slide around the edges of your plate if you buy the cheap ones they don t come with rubber bumpers and they scratch the rim of the plates. Hot glue the thicker end of the safety pin to the top of your plate then place the circular part of the pin over a hook or nail on the wall. Forget gallery walls you need a hanging plate wall.

Press the adhesive discs onto the backs of the plates. The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface. Use spring style hangers for hanging plates on a wall. Turn each plate upside down onto paper.

Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side. Lay white paper on a flat surface.