Decorative plates on the wall with their own hands

How to hang decorative plates on the wall with your own hands? How to make self-made fasteners for cymbals? How correctly to place them, so that it looked nice? Such questions often arise when decorating an interior.

In ordinary apartments, plates on the walls are infrequent, as a rule, the walls are decorated with paintings. But many designers are very fond of bringing a highlight to the interior with the help of such decorative elements. In this article, we'll look at ways to fix them and the rules of beautiful placement.

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What can be wall plates?

Plates for the decor of the room can be used the most diverse:

• There are special, designed specifically for decorating the walls. They have on the back of a special fasteners( a hole, a loop of twine, a metal ring).Usually they depict cities and plots from life, before they were carried from travel, as now magnets on the refrigerator.

Important! There are wall dishes with landscapes, brought in the middle of the twentieth century from Germany, the Czech Republic. This is almost antiques, which are gathering dust somewhere on the mezzanine at my grandmother, and can take a worthy place in the renovated apartment.

• For wall decoration, you can use ordinary plates and saucers with cute patterns or even just white ones.
• Now, in times of prosperity of different types of needlework, it is not worth it to create a masterpiece with your own hands - paint this vessel with acrylic paints or decorate in the technique of decoupage. Making dishes with your own hands is not difficult. You can create from a simple dish element a panel on a plate with your own hands: using a glue gun to decorate the saucer with coffee beans, cloves and cinnamon sticks. This saucer-composition will look nice in your kitchen.
• According to the shape, decorative plates can be not only round, but also oval, square, and in general, curved arbitrary shape.
• Their dimensions can also be varied: from tiny to huge.

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How to attach the dish to the wall? Possible ways of

Fastening of decorative plates to a wall can be carried out by several methods. Before starting work, you should familiarize yourself with the basic options and choose the right one for yourself.

Fixing with nails

Plates can be fixed on a nail driven into the wall:

1. If the dish is specially designed for decorating the walls, then it will already have either a hole for fastening or a loop( metal ring) for which it is hung on a nail.
2. For simple table saucers you will need to mount the mount yourself:
   • You can drill a small hole with a tile drill bit.
   • You can buy special foot with springs, designed specifically for such purposes. This type of fastening hooks grips the product from several sides and for a loop is fixed on the nail. Such a device can be made by yourself. We'll talk about this a little later.
   • There are also forged fasteners for cymbals, they are larger and more noticeable.

Important! Before buying the finished fixtures, measure the diameter of your plates, as they are different.

Fastening with special Velcro

Decorative plates and saucers can be fixed with a special fastener for plates on the wall, in the form of round Velcro with a loop( for example, Velcro Command).They are selected for the diameter and weight of the product, and they do their job well.

Important! First, you mold such a sticky disk to your plate, and then hang it on the nail for a loop.

How to hang a plate on a wall without nails?

Decor in the form of wall plates can be fixed on the wall and without a nail - on the glue.

Important! In this case, glue "liquid nails" or "cold welding" is used.

Special Shelves

Anyone who enjoys this kind of interior decorations, collects decorative dishes. To these people, to simplify their mounting on the wall, you can buy special racks with narrow shelves. They have either a narrow slit for easy fixing of plates, or stuffed slats along shelves that prevent them from falling. It can be just a hanging shelf for plates.

Important! Usually such an "exhibition" is located in the kitchen, dining room or other premises, the interior of which is decorated in the style of Country, Provence, Vintage, Classics.

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Self-fixing the

fixing problem How to fix the plate on the wall if it is not possible to buy the ready-made fixture? Further details are given to the simplest and most effective ways to solve such a problem.

We use special glue

How to hang decorative plates on a wall without nails? The answer to this question has already been voiced above. Now we will take a more detailed look at the "nondescript" method. To do this, you need glue "liquid nails" or "cold welding"( Poxipol glue).

Procedure:

1. The plate should be thoroughly cleaned from dust and dirt, and dried.
2. Use a sharp object( an awl, knife, nail) to make a few scratches on the part of the bottom where the glue will be applied, for better adhesion( coupling of materials with each other).
3. Degrease the scratched area, for example, with alcohol.
4. Apply glue to the treated area, attach a bar or piece of woolen dense fabric.
5. After drying with the same adhesive, attach the plate to the wall.

Important! Beat holes in this case is not needed, but the product will outweigh the problem. Therefore, beforehand, carefully plan and calculate everything.

We use tape and staples

Another way to hang a plate on the wall, if there is no hook - use paper clips and tape.

Procedure:

1. To a clean, dry and low-fat plate in the right place, attach a large paper clip, carefully fix it on the bottom of the dish with several rows of electrical tape.

Important! Staples can be replaced with a twist of twine or braid, and tape - on a medical plaster. Paste the tape or patch very carefully so that there are no air bubbles, otherwise it can become unstuck and your decor will fall to the floor.

1. Now for this clip or eyelet hang the product on the nail.

Important! In this way it is desirable to attach only small and light objects.

Using epoxy resin:

• You can fasten a metal ring, a rope or wire loop to the back of the plate with epoxy or "cold welding".
• Adhesive gun can also be used, but only for small light saucers.
• After gluing the fastener, you should wait a few hours for the glue to catch and froze, and then hang the finished product on the nail.

We produce metal clip-fasteners for wall plates

In order to make this fastening of decorative plates on the wall yourself, you will need aluminum or copper wire with a cross section of about 2 mm.

Important! You can take a piece of double-core wire, cut it and remove the braid.

Next, consider an example of fastener for a 23 cm diameter dish.

Procedure:

1. Cut two pieces from the wire: 25 cm( top) and 23 cm( bottom).
2. Bend from each cut a figure in the form of a letter M. The legs should be 8 cm, and the middle at the top: two at 4.5 cm, and the bottom - two 3.5 cm.
3. At the ends of the legs, bend 1 cm inthe form of hooks round-nosed.

Important! These bent tips can be dyed with a manicure varnish for the color of the product, as they will wrap the edge of the plate outside.

1. Take two pieces of tight underwear gum of 15 cm, firmly sew their ends to make two rings.
2. Now put both "M" one above the other, only the top flip upside down. Connect the tops of the "bukovok" with elastic bands.
3. Now grasp the plate from above and from below with hooks on the legs of the attachment, check the reliability.
4. At the top "M"( which is now "W"), slightly bend the middle to make it easier to hang on a nail.

Important! For your wall plates, calculate the proper size of the hangers themselves, increase or decrease the length of the "legs".

Manufacturing of such a suspension does not take much time and it leaves very cheap, unlike the store analog.

Important! Some craftsmen advise to make paws-girths from clerical paper clips( 4 pieces) and to connect them among themselves an elastic band. The upper part of the rubber band is hooked on the nail.

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How nice to hang dishes on the wall in the kitchen? The correct arrangement of the decor

Plates for wall decoration can be different - from vintage Meissen porcelain dishes to ordinary plates with flowers. But to make them a decoration of the room, and not vice versa - only spoiled the general interior and attracted too much attention, you need to know a few design tricks.

Combine colors:

• Plates must match the color scheme of the interior, but at the same time, do not merge with the color of the walls.
• They can be a "bunch" for other furnishings. For example, you can hang a blue plate on the wall so that a lone blue floor lamp( pillow, vase) had a pair and did not fall out of the general plan.
• Plates can be a bright color spot in the interior, for example, red - in beige surroundings, chocolate - in white and the like.

Theme and style of

Several plates in one room must be linked together by the same theme and color scheme.

Important! It is not necessary to place on one wall a simultaneous pastoral scene with a geometric pattern.

The appearance of the decorative plate must match the style of the interior. For example, for the Classic, gold plates, white and blue and white porcelain, calm colors, flowers are appropriate. For Hi-tech, monochrome plates( black, red, white), possibly square, are suitable.

Important! Plates should not be much, 2-3 is enough.

The arrangement of the plates relative to each other

The arrangement of several plates is set:

• They can be arranged in symmetrical - even horizontal or vertical rows.
• You can put a geometric figure out of the plates - a square, a circle, a rhombus, a rectangle and so on.
• If your interior is not classic, and you want to arrange on a large empty wall a composition of many dishes, you can put them in the form of a wave.

Important! On the Internet, you can find many different schemes of beautiful placement. The main thing - do not rush. Before walling the wall with nails, make a preliminary layout: cut out the paper circles around the diameter of your plates( just turn the plate on a piece of paper and circle with a pencil).Paint or color pencils schematically paint the desired color on paper blanks and with the help of paint tape, place them on the wall. Only when you are satisfied, fasten on the wall real plates.

Choosing the right place for

The most common decor in the form of plates:

• decorates the headboards of the beds in the bedroom;
• place them above the chest of drawers in the living room, near the mirror in the hallway;
• is located in the piers between the windows, on the shelves of the buffet in the dining room, on the hanging shelf in the kitchen and even in the bathroom.

Such beauty everywhere there is a place.

Sometimes decorative dishes are inserted into the frames. The plate is attached to a cardboard or plywood substrate and in this form becomes similar to the original picture.

Important! The frame can be made the most from racks and bars, or can be ordered in a framing workshop.

If you plan to decorate your kitchen or any other room with decorative plates, then you need not only to purchase designs that are suitable for design, but also to know how best to fix them on the wall, in which order. Now you know that you can fasten such a decor even without nails, so what type of fastening to choose depends entirely on your preferences. Using good advice from the article, you can do everything without problems.