How To Hang A License Plate On The Wall

Trace each plate on paper.

How to hang a license plate on the wall.

Follow the directions on the glue packaging. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers. Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate.

Be sure to hang the plate onto the nail through the small circle at the bottom of the safety pin which will prevent easy slippage. Turn each plate upside down onto paper. To start the license plate wall i selected my license plates and gave them a good scrub in the sink. How to hang plates on the wall the best hangers more step 1.

The entire hanging used one long piece of continuous rope. They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to the wall. Place your pop tab so it will not show over the edge of the plate. I personally hate them.

At the bottom of the entire piece i knotted the rope. How to hang plates on a wall. 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. Use whatever decisions you have on hand you can make a simple minimalist statement with just 1 hanging plate or you can hang up a collection of decorative plates to create a fun design scheme.

I decided that i didn t need to put plates up on the wall behind the chalkboard or the shoe cabinet since those areas would not be seen. Lay white paper on a flat surface. Tape your templates to the wall. Find the center of the item to hang on the wall.

There you have it. To keep the string from allowing the license plates to sink into each other once hung i taped each string on the back of the license plate. To hang the plate first figure out the exact placement on the wall mark it with a small dot and hammer a small nail into the wall. You can use any kind of open wall space for this whether it s above a door directly above a sofa.

Take all the plates that you re thinking about using in your plate wall and lay them out. Here s how to hang a 50 state run of license plates on your precious drywall without leaving a mark. I also allowed for a loop that was measured at the top to hang them.