Thanks for sharing- great idea and they look easy to use too!!!

Thank you so much for that tip!!!

I have been watching my DD hang everything and I mean everything in her dorm room with those strips. And I never ever thought of using them for plated1 duh! thanks for the idea I just couldnt pull the trigger on buying the invisible ones $$$.

I bought some invisible plate hangers but haven't used them yet. Did you use just the strips, or the plastic hooks shown in the link? I didn't know the Command strips were sticky on both sides.

Thanks zip, i've wondered how good they were! Since i'm always hanging something, at home and my antique booth, i'll likely need a ton. ;o)

I just used those strips in my DD's room for to hang wooden letters which spelled out her name. I also liked it as it was easy to place them exactly where I wanted them. I marked the place on the wall for each letter, then attached a strip to each letter, peeled off the backing and pressed in place on the wall.

Ajasmama .. I used the strips. They have interlocking teeth on one side and adhesive on the back. You take them out of the package, put the interlocking teeth side facing each other and snap them together and then pull one adhesive strip off, place on your plate, pull the other adhesive strip off and place on your wall, hold it there for roughly 30 seconds and it creates a surprisingly strong bond. I tried to wrestle the first one off the wall to see if anyone brushing it or something would break the bond. They are truly good and stuck, they are to be the 'bees knees' for hanging stuck up like this.

Do they sell them separately from the hooks? Maybe as "refills"?

I bought Command hooks to try on my vinyl siding to hold wreathes - they wouldn't stick (maybe it was too cold out). Don't recall any "teeth" though. How do you get them off if/when you want to take the plate down?

val - did you use a different knd than zipdee? Yours sound like mine except I had to attach one side to hook rather than letter (though I suppose if I wanted to attach a plate rather than a hook it would work the same way, just not sure about taking it off since the hook had access to the strip).

Ajsmama .. they are sold seperate from the hooks, but they are not refills for the hooks. I grabbed my camera and snapped a picture for you of them. You just snap the two white tooth sides together and it holds like velcro ( but stonger ) .. then the peel the adhesive sides and stick.

Here's a little video ( hopefully this links right ) on how to use and remove them :

Here is a link that might be useful: Command strips

Jane .. yep, the transferware is antique, I bought it as a lot at an auction. They are very, very secure up on the wall. My hall is used by kids who like to touch and dogs that jump and I'm not worried at all. :)

You can see the plates hung in the link below, scroll down a bit :

Here is a link that might be useful: Transferware

I'm old fashioned and the stretchy wires ones that I use don't bother me a bit on my tole trays and plates. I have seen too many stories on another board I frequent about Command Hooks failing, and heirloom plates dropping off walls and breaking.

However they were NOT these with Velcro, so these may be fine. I'd definitely trust the Velcro-to-Velcro 'grab', but it's the sticky stuff dropping off the wall that would worry me.

My3dogs .. I'll report back if I have any problems with them .. I can be the test case :)

I'm on the other end of the spectrum .. I've found that the Command stuff can really get stuck on! I had some hooks out on the front windows that I used for wreaths, they'd been up a while. My DH broke the tab on one trying to remove it .. of course it was the one that was on the top dormer and had to climb out on the roof to get to. I was out standing on the roof with a hair dryer and miles of extension cord to heat the adhesive enough to get it off! *LOL* They will come off this way, but I was surprised how stuck on it was.

zipdee your pictures are wonderful thank you. And thanks to you My3dogs.

...Jane

Geez, Zipdee you won that light and the transferware, how wonderful.

Those were the same hooks that I used. When I used them, I first put the adhesive side on my wooden letters and let that sit for sometime to give the adhesive a chance to stick, and then I removed the other side of the adhesive and stuck it to the wall. I put a pillow under the letters on the floor in case they fell. I did have problems with one letter where I did not wait after putting the adhesive to the letter and that letter fell on the pillow. I tried subsequently to get it to work, but it kept falling so I used a new strip, giving it that wait period and since then none of the letters have fallen.

Because of this I also needed to remove the strip from the wall which is similar to the Command Hooks which I've used on my fireplace for Christmas stockings. You just need to pull on the bottom tab in a vertical downward direction really slowly so the tab does not break and there was absolutely no wall damage.

I will say I'd be a tad nervous about using them on antique plates...esp because the back of the plate is smooth so I'd be particularly careful to give it perhaps even an hour for the strip to adhere to the plate before getting the other side to adhere to the wall and I'd definitely put pillows below for one day as from my experience, if it's going to fall, it will fall in the first hour/day.

The other nice thing about these strips, is that you can pull the up the velco and remove the object from the wall, make any slight readjustments, clean, whathaveyou, and reattach the velco strips to one another.

Thanks zipdee (and val) - when I was looking for the hooks for the wreathes, I never even noticed they had "picture hanging strips. I'm a little worried about using them for the antique platter I want to hang over my glass-top range. That could be bad all around. Seems like people really liked the "invisible" plate hangers and thought they were secure. I'll have to think about which ones I want to use - maybe I'll wait for zipdee to report back in a few months.

I have a large collectible platter I want to hang. I would be concerned about the sticky method...would they work? What about the weight..almost 3 times that of a regular plate. It is a Lynn Chase, Jungle Jubilee Platter...they don't make it anymore, would hate for it to break.

I love these things! I got some to hang up my new pictures after the LR was painted. Not a cheap route if you have a lot of things to hang, though. Although I did find some on the clearance shelf at Walmart the other week, so I bought several packs!