I have a blue room guest room with antique furniture and the walls are painted a beautiful blue with blue white transferware and blue willow plates hanging on the wall.
How to hang plates on your wall.
I would caution that you could force the nails out of the wall with this method depending on the thickness of your paper.
After you finish securing your templates attach the plate hangers to your dishes.
Place your plates up on the wall using your paper template as a guide and then gently tear the paper off the wall.
Plates with raised designs on the back won t work properly with.
Mixed into a gallery wall.
Tips for hanging plates on a wall.
Select the plates you want to hang on the wall.
To use adhesive discs to hang your plates first read the manufacturer s directions and make sure the discs are recommended for the type of plates you have such as copper porcelain or china.
My original plan was to hang my plates using these disc hangers which are adhesive discs that you adhere to the back of your plates the advantages of the disc hangers are that they allow your plates to hang flat against the wall and they are invisible once you hang them.
To break up lots of little squares add in a plate.
Now check the back of each plate to be sure it s clean and wipe away any dust and lint.
Hang the plates on picture hangers.
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Lay white paper on a flat surface.
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.
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.
Gallery walls are a fun way to use lots of small special art pieces together to make a large impact.
Find beautiful plates on the thrift.
It ll bring more movement and a break in shapes to your gallery wall.
If you have small children in your home you could hang the plates with a hook rather than a nail for more stability and a less likely hood of a child hitting a plate down.
Figure out the best plate hangers for you and hang them up.
Then nail the hooks into the wall to hang your plates.
Turn each plate upside down onto paper.
Using a pencil trace outline of each plate.
To assure the plates fall where you want them hold the plates up to their corresponding templates and mark where the plate hangers on the back of the plates fall.
Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle.
This will be the canvas for your wall art.
Plates should vary in size and or shape for interest.
Now i want to take down those tacky plate hangers and try these.
Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of the area you want to cover.
How to hang plates on a wall.
I love to decorate by hanging plates on walls.
Make sure the back of your plate is very clean so the adhesive has a clean surface to attach to.
