Look, we all love a good gallery wall. But in the same spirit that moves me to constantly find maximalist to new places wallpaper I’ve often thought, “what else I could hang on my wall?” While art a necessary staple of any home, art that doesn’t have to be confined to paintings and prints in frames—there are plenty of other objects to add to your decor. Take, for example, plates.
Hanging decorative plates front plates for the walls as long as people have been essentially have existed. After all, painting and other fine craftsmanship and detailed with front Limoges porcelain, these pieces are just as much works of art as useful as serving pieces. From France to England to the American South, both as a form of decoration and tabletop lovers have long hung plates on the front wall, sometimes with a clever storage option.
No one knows this better than John Derian, designer, shop owner, and decoupage artist extraordinaire. He has earned a cult following for feeling, decorative plates, featuring motifs repurposed from vintage books and prints. Too pretty to eat off, to make the perfect decorative wall plates by an opponent’s card battle Derian. So, when it feels after I moved into my new apartment with me now, the company generously array plates of cents, I set out a plate of the wall to create my own. Know how I did it here.
- Measure your background
Find a bare wall or section of wall) where you want to hang out and measure the width and height of the area you want to cover your plates. This will be the canvas for your wall art.
- Arrange your plates
Using your measurements as a guide, lay out your plates on the floor or a surface, provided you have the rights you, the moment you get moving around until you like the arrangement. Tip: If you’re using the plates of varying sizes and shapes vary them throughout, but the arrangement is to keep the larger pieces towards the bottom so it doesn’t feel top-heavy.
- Plan out your Tape
Using blue painters tape, translate the arrangement of the table or to the floor and the wall. I find it easiest to start by measuring the placement of the center piece, then working out from there for the others, mapping out the distance between you and its a mock up to get the wall on each plate.
- Or attach hangers
The big difference between the plates with framed art and art—since it’s created to hang on a wall—or usually comes with a wire hanger. Plates, obviously, do not. That’s where your new best friend comes in: ear buds are wires hanging plate. Get the kind with springs, so they’ll tightly hold your plate, and coated with edges, so they won’t crack or chip them. Ear buds come in various sizes are the wires for the license plate of every kind, and most come with hooks and nails to hang them on. Ear buds are the wires Attach to the plates.
- Hang on!
Now it’s time to hang! For each plate, measure the distance from the top of the plate behind it that will catch the wire to the hook, then hook a nail into the wall, taped that same place on the plate of your outline. Tip: If you tend to shake a lot when you live in an older building and hammer them into your walls, nail in all before all the plates hanging on the hooks.
- Adjust if needed
DIYers are even the best make mistakes, and despite your measuring something might look a bit off when all is said and hung. If so, don’t be afraid to adjust the hooks a bit swapping or moving plates—plates will probably cover any extra holes!
