How to Make a Plate Hanger Gallery Wall – Easy as 1,2,3 and nearly FREE!

There are some posts I  get really excited about showing you.  This is one of them.  I first saw this on  Christina's blog the Frugal Homemaker.  Right away I got to work on my plate collection (that I had planned to do for months!) 
This is in our guest bathroom.  




As mentioned before in my Top 10 Decorating Tips, hanging plates on your wall is an incredible way to make a statement VERY inexpensively.  You can also see my other post on monograming or personalizing a plate before you hang it on your wall.


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Previously, I bought Heavy Duty Wall Hanger for around 3.00 a piece but as I mentioned above it wasn’t tell I ran across a post by Christina telling me how to make FREE plate hangers that got me started on the plate wall I had always planned for my guest powder room. 


STEP 1

Start a collection of thrift store plates, whatever your style is.

Coastal White?
Old World Pottery?
Victorian Blue and White?
Modern Black and White?
Roosters or Farm Animals? 


You get the picture!  Have fun with it.  All the plates I have collected were around .25 cents a piece.  The main plate with the tree on it was $2.99, my big splurge.;-)




free adhesive plate hanger tutorial


When I hung my monogram thrift store plates I used the DiscChargers which cost me around 8 bucks for the 3.  Not bad, but what happens when you have 15 plates to hang!!! I really did not want to spend $45.00 just to hang my $8.00 collection of plates……right???


Step 2: MAKE YOUR OWN PLATE HANGER!


Simply cut out 2 circle pieces of felt. 

blog free plate hanger

Hot Glue one circle to the back of the plate. 

Next arrange a paper clip on the back of the plate so that the top goes just a little bit over the “ring” of the plate. 

blog free plate hanger bathroom

Finish up by hot gluing another piece of felt on top of that.

blog finished diy plate hanger

TA DA! Your own FREE plate holder!  (I know I am a little too excited about this but I just saved 45.00.  I had all the stuff to do this just laying around the house.) 

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Now, I’m not saying to hang your  grandmother’s 100 dollar antique plate this way, but for normal stuff, it’s great!  In fact, I did make a mistake and wanted to take off the felt and re-position it and I COULDN’T!  It was on there for good folks…..so I am very convinced that this is going to be staying up for a very…. long….. time :-)


STEP 3: HANG YOUR PLATES


Now as to the best way to place them on the wall I am SOLD on the WAX PAPER TECHNIQUE for hanging frames or plates.  It simply makes sense and it’s fast and easy. 


blog how to hang plates

blog how to hang a plate wall

blog how to hang plates wax paper

blog final wax paper on wall



Let’s look at the AFTER once again 

blog free plate hangers plate wall powder room

Wondering what the powder room walls are made of?  It's American Clay, check out how I did them!

Are you ready to start collecting plates yet?  I hope you are, it’s lots of fun.

EDIT: I would suggest that if you are doing a collage right above your head (like over a headboard) that you buy some of these

Heavy Duty Wall Hanger

in the case that your homemade set didn't hold up.  In the 2 years that I have had the bathroom plates up, I had ONE fall.  Of course it was the largest and heaviest one.  I should have doubled the felt size and hot glue for the big one, or added two hooks.  All to say, I LOVE using my free plate hanging idea and will do it again but if it was an expensive plate or a super heavy plate right over my bed I would buy the commercial wall hanger for that one. :-)



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