Husband & I just bought a house and would like to hang our wedding pictures without putting holes in the walls
Question:Any suggestions will help. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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3M make something that sticks to wall without nails and is supposed to be easy to remove without any damage to wall. Have to confess have not tried it myself but others I know of have and said it worked great. May want to give it a try. Congrats on new home!!
There is an adhesive picture hanger that you can buy at most hardware or home improvement stores. I would suggest that you use a nail and picture hanger instead because the adhesive type will usually pull the finish off of your wall whenever you want to move it and it can release over time. The nail hole can be patched easily with a little spackling or putty and touched up with a little paint where you will never see it and can be moved easily.
you can do it with those white paper things that glue on the wall and have a hook on them, but, i wouldn't trust them...our newest find are Hercules Hooks(I know I hate Billy Mills too) they make a very small hole that you can repair with Spackle and they are supposed to hold a good amount of weight...so far we have had great success with them...you can get them at Wal-Mart
Using stick on hangars is by far harder to repair than small holes made for picture hooks put up with small nails and they don't fail and fall.
You can buy hooks that have a sticky pad on the back, but then you may find that they are not strong enough. You could try using a product like No-nails, which you could apply to the back of a hook that is mounted on a flat back. Then place the hook in the desired position and wait at least a few hours for the bond to become strong before attempting to hang any pictures. You should bear in mind however that this method would mean that once placed, the hook would be very difficult to remove at a later date. Why don't you want to put holes in the walls? There are many products available for you to use without causing any damage, and a very tiny hole in the wall is easy to fill.
One cute trick I saw on HGTV about month ago. That guy did not want to put holes in the walls, so he put wires from ceiling to the floor along the wall and used small but strong enough magnets to hold pictures on the wire.
Put up moulding at the top of the wall, then drop down wires or ribbon to make a nice decorative hanging. You can find shots of this on Martha Stewart I bet.
But putting little holes in the walls is ok and easy to fix later. Be brave...
Congratulations on the new house!
What I have done in the past. Somewhere in yard sales you come across these screen walls that you put up to divide a room with. Like Japanese divider walls etc. You could use something like that as an access to decorative measurement. Than put in hocks to hang up the pictures on that. An aluminated light behind the divider would also make the room more romantic. I have done that before and it looks great.
Another thing if you're very handy, you could create in expensive wiring sculpture and hang your pictures on that like a tree with extented brenches or so.
I do not trust stick on solutions because all they do is test how well the paint film adheres to the undercoat, and are prone to failure with messy results.
Tiny nail holes are much easier to repair.
I saw an art gallery that frequently changes what was on the wall. They had a molding near the ceiling and used long decorative cord attached to removable hooks on the molding to hang the pictures.
They had 14 foot ceilings.
On an 8 foot ceiling this may not look as cool.
A lot of art is viewed by people sitting. Consider hanging it at eye level for seated people if the location suggests it will be viewed that way.
People rarely look up, which is why leopards and boas hunt from trees.
use what they call monkey hooks they work great and with stand some weight
You can take needles ( yes the ones you sew with) put then at an angle into the wal and they will hold anything. - even heavy pictures.
Then just get frames and put them out on table tops.
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