The Anonymous Widower

Velcro Wallpaper

I like photographs and I have small frames of them everywhere.  Sometimes I put letters and newspaper clippings into frames and want to hang them on the wall.  But getting them all in line is a pain and you end up bashing endless hooks in the wall or drilling a large number of holes.

I thought that an idea to handle this would be Velcro wallpaper.  Perhaps, in it’s simplest form it would be a plain colour heavyweight paper, with say 10 mm. strips of the loop Velcro vertically every 50 mm. or so.  Pictures could then be hung by just sticking the hook Velcro to the back of the frames.  No nails or screws.  I know I could just stick strips of Velcro to the wall, but then if they were on the wallpaper, I wouldn’t have to space them out.  Removal would also be much simpler.

I’m not the first to think of this, although this lady on her blog envisages modified flock wallpaper.  From her experiments it would appear that Velcro can support quite a weight.

I’m not sure I’d use it like she has proposed in her bathroom.

February 4, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Ideas