How To Hang Up An Old Window On A Wall

Then stain or paint the shelf to match the window finish and then mount it to the thick piece of wood at the bottom of the window which is called a rail.

How to hang up an old window on a wall.

Let me walk you through how i hung them. Ok so thats what the wall looks like. Attach the window to wall studs when you are hanging it in front of another window. If you give a hook a small tap with a hammer then it bites into the wood enough that you can usually screw it in by hand without drilling a guide hole first.

I used a couple of different things depending on the size of the window. Like i mentioned before these windows are relatively lightweight and i usually hang them flush against a wall so i use the hooks and eyes with picture hanging wire to hang them. I originally bought some picture hangers for the back of each window that nailed into place. The depth of the shelf is up to you depending on what you want to display.

Drive one picture hanging screw through the wall and into the stud at the pencil mark with a power drill and a phillips head screwdriver bit. To repurpose an old window as a display shelf cut a piece of scrap lumber to the width of your window. The lights were randomly taped into place inside the frames. One part of the cleat goes in the wall the other on the window.

You will need the ceiling joists if you are hanging the window as a room divider or in front of a floor to ceiling window. Steph made a little cover and painted them the wall cover to hide the battery boxes of the fairy lights.