How To Hang Large Heavy Shadow Boxes On Wall

A brief how to guide on hanging our iconic shadow box frames.

How to hang large heavy shadow boxes on wall.

Step 2 mounting the hangers. A brief how to guide on hanging our iconic shadow box frames. You will need picture hanging wire and nails or hooks. I made a light box for this slot machine glass i got as a gift.

Any home hardware store should have the hardware required to hang your shadow box on the wall. Have a helper hold the shadow box up to the wall in your preferred location. The box is over 16 inches wide so i could screw into 2 wood studs in the wall. Lightly draw a line along the top of the shadow box from one end to the other.

Tap wall anchors into the pilot holes. The whole thing weighs about 10 pounds and i wanted to hang it on the wall. You simply 1 push the hook into the wall 2 twist the hook right side up 3 and then push it all the way in until just the hook is showing. What is so brilliant about these is that you do not need any power tools to pop one of these in your walls and it will take you less than two minutes to hang your heavy items.

Step 3 take the shadow box down turn it over and measure the distance from the top to the center point of the hanging hooks. Then drive flat head screws into each anchor leaving the head protruding just enough that you can slide the flush mounted hangers on the back of the shadow.