Looking for an original way to decorate your home? Take a look at the interiors in your favorite foreign films. In large houses, the walls of the living room are usually decorated with plates with an unusual ornament. Such a design technique has long migrated to us. Now it has become fashionable to decorate the walls of your office, bedroom, nursery or living room. In this article, you will read helpful tips on how to hang a plate on a wall. You will be surprised how many ways exist for this. Also, we will talk about the rules for the decor and layout of saucers.
So, let's figure out how to hang a plate on the wall. Mounting is the first thing to consider.
Method number 1: without nails
If you're looking for a way to hang a plate on a wall without drilling, then this tip is for you.
Take a plate and glue a small wooden block to it. Wait for it to dry. Now, with this piece of wood and liquid nails or cold welding, glue the plate to the wall.
This foundation is needed in order to increase grip. The fact is that the smooth surface of the plate does not fix on the wall. A porous tree is an excellent assistant in solving the problem. In addition, rarely does any plate have a flat surface at the back. Now you know how to hang a plate on a wall without nails.
Making the holder yourself
Take any ribbon or leather lace. Using the same glue as mentioned above, glue it to the plate in two places to form a loop for hanging. Cover the edges with pieces of felt, paper or any fabric. This will make the rear view more aesthetic and the mount more reliable. Drive a nail into the wall or screw a self-tapping screw, and hang the plate by the tape.
Electrical tape or patch
Light decor can be fixed with the help of things that are in almost every home. We need a white tape and a patch. Stick a long piece of patch on a plate vertically. Now, with horizontal stripes, fix it again on the plate. At the end of the electrical tape, insert the holder and seal it. Once again, overlap the end with several horizontal stripes of electrical tape. This is a fairly reliable way of mounting.
Clip, wire and hairpin
For fasteners, it is very convenient to use an ear from tin cans. If this was not found in the house, then a wire, a hairpin or a paper clip will do.
In work, you can use a gun with hot glue (silicone rods). The back surface must be degreased. For better grip, you can walk a little along the back of the plate with emery cloth. But this is optional. The fact is that if you scratch the surface a little, then the materials stick together better and there is less chance that your plate will fall and break.
Ready-made wall mount
If you don’t like to mess around on your own and the hand-made is not yours, then look for special plate holders in decor stores. There they will definitely tell you how to hang a decorative plate on the wall. As an option, the mount-stand will suit you. Just fix it to the wall, and put a decorative element in it .
Factory holders are divided into two types:
- steel with a spring;
- round sticker with a loop.
How to determine what type of purchased mount you need? Focus on the weight of the plate. If it is heavy and large, then you need a metal mount. If small, then you can do with a neat sticker.
Mounting plates on the wall
If you are going to attach a group of decorative products, then first you need to draw a layout - the way you see the arrangement of plates. Now lay each item on paper and circle. Cut out each “pattern”. Take a sheet of whatman paper and tape the paper plates onto it.
Imagine in the process, you are sure to find your own original drawing. It may look like a waterfall or a rainbow. Or maybe you gravitate to strict geometry? You can draw a sheet into even squares or rhombuses. Now you have a good idea of how your plates should look on the wall. Never rush to fix a decor without having thought over a composition. After all, any method can leave a mark on the surface that will be difficult to mask.
Now remove the paper mock-ups of the plates from the wall and, peeping at the “cheat sheet” on the paper, fix the sketches on the wall surface. Fasten to the wall best with masking tape. It is made of paper, and will not leave traces on the wallpaper.
Now circle the blanks with chalk or a fading marker. Below you can look at a few ready-made layouts. Perhaps they will help you create your own version and you will immediately understand how to hang the plates best.
You can also beat some beautiful and massive object, for example, a mirror in a beautiful frame that hangs on the wall. Looks great plates located above the fireplace or an old chest of drawers. Plates look beautiful above the bed. In the corridor, they can decorate the space around the doorway.
How to hang plates on the wall beautifully
Most romantic natures love "creative mess." Do not like rigor? Try arranging the colorful decor in a chaotic manner.
Plates can be combined in one theme or be in the same color scheme. All items are not required to be round or square. The combination of different geometric shapes looks more interesting. Next, we consider several schemes.
Instead of travel magnets
Do you travel a lot and bring magnets from tours? Try replacing them with plates with the sights of the cities you have visited. Magnets are not bad, but it's better to admire the plates in the living room than to be constantly tempted to pull something from the refrigerator during bouts of nostalgia.
Plate puzzles
There is a kind of decor. One ornament is drawn on a group of plates. You can understand what exactly is shown if you place the products next to each other in a certain order. A very interesting game and a great idea for interior decoration.
Strict geometry
If you are a pedant and like everything to be regulated, then the question of how to hang a plate on the wall will not arise. Naturally - along a flat line, or a circle, or a rhombus. In general, on a given coordinate axis.
For visionaries
But if the creative is in full swing, then something unusual can be formed from decorative elements. For example, the sun, waves, a sunflower, a car. This arrangement is especially relevant in a children's room. Connect your child to work. Perhaps he will tell you the most unusual solution.
How to hang plates on the wall in the kitchen?
It all depends on the style of your kitchen and the free space on the walls. You can arrange the dishes as you like. There are no specific rules.
But what kind of plates to hang will depend on how well-designed this room is.
- If the kitchen is decorated in ethnic style, then trays made of copper, as well as dishes painted in a folk style (gzhel, Khokhloma, Indian motifs) will look very organic on the walls.
- The country-style dining room will sparkle with new colors if the walls are decorated with wicker dishes. Bright plates with floral patterns are also suitable here. The more saturated colors they have, the better.
- In the large kitchen, which is decorated in a classic style, white, grayish, milk plates will be appropriate on the walls. It is desirable that they be of different sizes and shapes. Make sure that a group of saucers has something in common. The plates look beautiful, the edges of which resemble knitted napkins.
Nursery decor
There is no limit to fantasy. There are a great many products with children's themes, and let the owner of the room tell you how to arrange them correctly.
Tip. Buy white decorative dishes and paints (acrylic or special for ceramics). Let the child paint them on his own, and you will help him in this. No one will have such an original children's design! Next to the plates you can hang a palette with paints. Set next to an easel. Think over the details so that everything looks organic in the room of the young artist.
Composition
Still have not decided how to hang a plate on the wall? Let's remember the basic laws of composition.
- If the walls are plain, then the decor can be of any color: strict light and flashy shades. Naturally, it needs to be in harmony with the colors in the interior.
- The darker the surface on which you want to hang the saucer, the more bright the decorative element should be. In another case, he simply gets lost on this background.
- Monochrome design does not go out of style. White walls and black plates and vice versa - it's stylish!
- Are there wallpaper with a pattern on the walls? The task is getting complicated. You will have to choose plates that will harmoniously look with their ornament.