How To Hang A Square Plate On The Wall

Lay white paper on a flat surface.

How to hang a square plate on the wall.

How to hang plates on a 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. Clean the back of the plates. Tape the templates to a wall.

Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers. Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle. I personally hate them.

Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop. Turn each plate upside down onto paper. Make sure to use wall anchors if you have plaster walls or if you aren t screwing into a stud. Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of.

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. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate. They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to the wall. The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on.

Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs. The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface. Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate. Place the safety pin upside down onto the glue with 1 2 inch of the bottom of the pin pointing upwards.

How to hang plates on a wall with adhesive discs. I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point. Activate the glue on the adhesive discs. Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option.

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. Use spring style hangers for hanging plates on a wall. To hang the plate drill a drywall screw into the wall leaving it about 1 4 from going all the way in. Tape out your plan.

Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw. This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates.