How To Hang Up An Old Window On A Wall

You will need the ceiling joists if you are hanging the window as a room divider or in front of a floor to ceiling window.

How to hang up an old window on a wall. One part of the cleat goes in the wall the other on the window. If you give a hook a small tap with a hammer then it bites into the wood enough that you can usually screw it in by hand without drilling a guide hole first. I used a couple of different things depending on the size of the window. Then stain or paint the shelf to match the window finish and then mount it to the thick piece of wood at the bottom of the window which is called a rail.

Attach the window to wall studs when you are hanging it in front of another window. Steph made a little cover and painted them the wall cover to hide the battery boxes of the fairy lights. I have a window i still need to hang and i want to add more but i still love it now even not finished. Let me walk you through how i hung them.

Like i mentioned before these windows are relatively lightweight and i usually hang them flush against a wall so i use the hooks and eyes with picture hanging wire to hang them. Ok so thats what the wall looks like. Find the ceiling joists or wall studs in the area where you plan to hang your window. The depth of the shelf is up to you depending on what you want to display.

To repurpose an old window as a display shelf cut a piece of scrap lumber to the width of your window. A picture hanging screw has a phillips style screw head.