How To Hang A Square Plate On The Wall

Clean the back of the plates.

How to hang a square plate on 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. Activate the glue on the adhesive discs. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate. Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate.

Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of. The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on. Tape the templates to a wall. Make sure to use wall anchors if you have plaster walls or if you aren t screwing into a stud.

Press the adhesive discs onto the backs of the plates. Use spring style hangers for hanging plates on a wall. I personally hate them. To hang the plate drill a drywall screw into the wall leaving it about 1 4 from going all the way in.

Lay white paper on a flat surface. Turn each plate upside down onto paper. Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw. Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs.

This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers. 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. Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option.

Place the safety pin upside down onto the glue with 1 2 inch of the bottom of the pin pointing upwards. I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point. Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle. Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side.

Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop. Forget gallery walls you need a hanging plate wall. Tape out your plan. The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface.

They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to 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.