Hello again everyone!
It’s Friday so time for another Must Have Tip!
If you are new around here my friends, Michele (The Scrap Shoppe), Bev (Flamingo Toes), Kara (Mine for the Making), and me, Allison (A Glimpse Inside), share a new topic every month and share tips each Friday to go along with those tips.
This month we are talking about Home Decor tips and if you have missed the other tips you can find them here: Tip 1, Tip 2, Tip 3.
Today, I am sharing something with you that I am totally obsessed with!
Each size holds a different weight so be sure to use the proper size for whatever item you are hanging.
Let me take you a tour through my house and show you how I use Picture Hanging Strips. Perhaps you didn’t even know that you could use them in some of these ways.
Every frame I hang, unless is is extremely large and heavy OR has one of those velvety backs, I use a hanging strip or two on.
I use them on the plaques and even the empty frames as well.
And if something is crooked, just pop it off and reattach until it is straight.
This is in our playroom and yet again, everything is hung with the hanging strips.
The large frame is hung on a wire because it is very heavy but I do like to place a strip or a regular command hook strip on the back of large items like mirrors, large frames or even the shutters I have on our wall, to keep the items steady on the wall and prevent it from getting crooked.
I created this fabric covered play and yep, up on the wall with a few hanging strips.
Have something made of wood or a small pallet item (gather sign)? Pop some hanging strips on the back and get that on the wall quickly.
This entire wall in my craft room is also hung with hanging strips. And if I can’t use hanging strips for some items, you’ll see that I will use a Command Hook to hang items like the arrow or wreaths instead.
Can you tell that I hate holes in my walls yet?!
If not, here are more ways…
They are great to use on the back of canvases (stenciled initial canvases). The canvases are normally light enough that you can just use one of them.
Have a cool wood initial piece?
Pop some strips on the back and hang it!
In my dining room I have these metal plates that I, yet again, hung with the hanging strips.
One of them even has a large lip so the strip wouldn’t reach the wall very well. My solution? Just double up the strips on each other and it is good to go!
And lastly, I actually used the hanging strips on the back on my vintage plates in my kitchen.
Even the center backet item is on the wall with strips! I used four strips on the back of the baskets and then just one strip on the back of the plates depending on their size though I did use a plate holder for my two large platters.
See I REALLY hate putting a hole in my wall!
The previous owner of our house had things EVERYWHERE on the wall so there were holes all over, seriously like hundreds of holes, even in the most random places. Did they patch them when they moved? Nope and it made for a ton of patching when we were painting.
Do you use Command Picture Hanging Strips by 3M? If so, how do you use them?
Be sure to stop by next week when we begin a whole new topic!
Good stuff!
When I was teaching school full-time, I used Command Strips all the time! I was working in a brand new building and they didn’t allow us to hammer nails or use tape on the walls, but the Command Strips were fine to use, so I took advantage. I hung my posters, kids’ art work, baskets of markers and pencils, emergency bag, just about everything with these strips. Now I use them often in my sewing room to hang my favorite mini quilts and art work.
I do use Command when can afford to, those puppies aren’t inexpensive on our budget, SS. I like to change things around on my walls, never know what will want to hang up. Right now have old wood window with small shutter attached on each side and shelf across bottom of window, not light at all. Then hang decorative items on window and shelf.
Enjoy seeing how you and others decorate walls whether gallery wall or just decorations, can also get ideas by seeing how others do things. Don’t necessarily copy exactly how person does what they do but an idea can pop up from seeing how/what and hang items from that idea. Seeing how other people do things is wonderful resource.
Time to go hang out another load before clouds come in more. Have wonderful weekend
Am I to understand that these are just the STRIPS and not a hook? I didn’t know you could just get the strips! I use the command hooks alot where I don’t want holes but having a strip to hang smaller things would be great. I use the hooks for example, on my nice wooden hutch.. I put the hooks on the side to hang hats on, or when in our bedroom, had hooks on the side for my robe. I put 5 hooks up by our entry door to the house for coats.. as couldn’t for the life of us hang a wooden coat rack as no studs! The hooks work great… I may take them off the wall and mount them on a nice board though. I would like some really little hooks to hang things on in my craft room. Will check into the strips by themselves though.
Thanks for sharing and opening your home to us. Yes this is a year old but I have a question on how did you hang the top plates withour a plate hanger? Don’t all the 3M product have a hook for you to hang something. That brings the question, how did you hang the top row of plates? I have plates I would like to hang but I do not want to use the typical wire plate hangers. I’ve been told they hurt the value of the plates.
I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks,
Robin