How to hang plates on a wall with adhesive discs.
How to hang a square plate on the wall.
The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface.
This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates.
Using a pencil trace outline of each plate.
Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side.
They clamp onto you plate and then you attach them to 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.
I personally hate them.
Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop.
The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on.
Lay white paper on a flat surface.
Activate the glue on the adhesive discs.
Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of.
Make sure to use wall anchors if you have plaster walls or if you aren t screwing into a stud.
Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate.
Press the adhesive discs onto the backs of the plates.
Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle.
Forget gallery walls you need a hanging plate wall.
Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs.
The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers.
Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw.
Clean the back of the plates.
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.
I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point.
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.
Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option.
Turn each plate upside down onto paper.
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.
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.
Tape out your plan.
