How To Hang A Square Plate On The Wall

How to hang plates on a wall with adhesive discs.

How to hang a square plate on the wall.

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. This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates. The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on. Tape the templates to a wall.

Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers. Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw. Forget gallery walls you need a hanging plate wall.

I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point. Use spring style hangers for hanging plates on a wall. Place the safety pin upside down onto the glue with 1 2 inch of the bottom of the pin pointing upwards. Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate.

How to hang plates on a wall. Clean the back of the plates. 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. 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. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate. Make sure to use wall anchors if you have plaster walls or if you aren t screwing into a stud. To hang the plate drill a drywall screw into the wall leaving it about 1 4 from going all the way in.

Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs. Activate the glue on the adhesive discs. Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option. Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop.

Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of. They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to the wall. 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. The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface.

Turn each plate upside down onto paper. Press the adhesive discs onto the backs of the plates.