The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on.
How to hang plates on wall diy.
One other tip once you ve put the command strip on keep it on every time you move or adjust the strip it looses some of its grip.
After 24 hours hang them up with by the hook on the disc to a nail in the wall.
Plate walls can also be done very inexpensively with mismatched plates from yard sales and thrift stores or cheap plates from discount stores like ross and marshall s.
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.
Pop top of a can or other metal rings.
Set the plates in a cool dry place for 24 hours to dry.
Find the center of the item to hang on the wall.
Since the debut of kelly wearstler s mother of all plate walls at the viceroy in santa monica several years ago the popularity of decorative plate walls has remained.
When i revealed my dining room a few weeks ago i still had a few tweaks i wanted to do.
Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side.
Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs.
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.
Here are tips that will help you hang a plate small mirror or lids like i did.
I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point.
You will need two things to hang plates on a wall without wires.
The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface.
Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop.
This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates.
In fact i loved this comment kim left on that post.
I pushed down on the disc as it dried a bit for the first few minutes just to be sure all of the disc dried to the plate evenly.
This is my easy solution.
Place the safety pin upside down onto the glue with 1 2 inch of the bottom of the pin pointing upwards.
Make sure to really push the plates onto the wall not so hard that you break the plate but hard enough to keep the plate in place.