Displaying decorative tiles in your home is just one more way you can add color, texture, pattern and interest. Many of us immediately equate tiles with a permanent fixture though. And that’s really not the case. You can display them as decor much like you would plates or baskets. Especially intricate, handcrafted tiles. Simply hanging them sounds great until you realize they don’t have built in hardware for hanging.

Some Solutions:

• Easel on a surface
• Plate hangers
• Double sided tape
• Hanging hardware & a heavy duty adhesive

These solutions didn’t quite jive with me and I’ll briefly explain why. I haven’t found an easel that I like. Double sided tape will destroy the wall and could fail. And I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the tiles like gluing hardware to it.

Of the proposed solutions on my internet search, the plate hangers seemed the most promising. But I’m concerned that bending the plate hanger to fit the thickness of a tile may not work out as well as I’d hope. I had an idea that wouldn’t cost me anything- jute twine!

Here’s a very quick video demonstrating how I used the jute to securely hold the plate.

The jute adds even more texture. I had it on hand. It’s a long lasting solution that’s painlessly reversible. It almost frames the tile and I really like the way that looks.

The Frida tile was a gift from my friend at The Cozy Casita. She’s the one who made the tiled tray I’ve told you guys about before. And the smaller tile with the blue bird was won in a small giveaway hosted by Desha Peacock on Instagram. You can check out Etsy for pretty decorative tiles or check out local ReStores for tiles that have been salvaged.

Also, I think this is a good way to distract from tiles in a bathroom/kitchen that aren’t looking so pretty or your style. Hang a couple over top older/boring tiles. Or as a pseudo backsplash if you rent or don’t have the budget to install a backsplash in a backsplash-less space.

Well, that’s all my thoughts on this project. Let me know if you have any other ideas for hanging tiles in the comments below. And help me out by sharing this post!

I try to lead a cruelty free, eco-friendly home. And that means I spend some time researching brands and ingredients to see if they will work for us. If you’re new here, There’s myself (27), my husband (28) and our son (5). My husband has psoriasis but otherwise normal skin with breakouts on his back. I have sensitive eczema prone skin, fragrances generally cause me to be itchy, I don’t normally have break outs but I am very dry. And our son is normal (for now ;)).

Recently Ulta was 15% cash back on Ebates.com so I took the opportunity to pick up products I’ve been wanting to try for myself as well as products I think my husband should try.

The Husband:

Myself:

Other Products:

It’s been ages since we’ve chatted. And because of that it feels super weird to jump back in with my thoughts on the Instagram shadowban since that’s not what I normally chat about here. But, I’ve been seeing everyone freaking about it. Wondering if they’ve been shadow banned. Theorizing why engagement is down and how Instagram targets who to shadow ban and who not to shadow ban. I think I’ve figured it out! At least for myself. And instead of direct messaging each and every one of my good friends while everyone else sits confused, I thought I’d throw up this post and hope Google does me justice and shares it with you all.

Here’s the Test:

In a recent Instagram post, I did what I usually do. I put my caption and the most relevant hashtag. Then I did what any other Instagrammer does and buried the paragraph of other tags in a separate comment. You know, keeping the caption looking clean and pretty and such.

I tested my page on this ban checker site.

And as I started to theorize, this was the result.

The only hashtag that I showed up in was the one I used in the caption.

So I went in and removed that comment and edited the caption to include all those tags.

And here’s the result!

Immediately fixed!

I’ll keep playing with it a bit more. And like I said, I don’t normally explore these things nor write about them so please don’t think I’m trying to play expert. The proof is in the pudding! I had to share my findings 🙂

Try it for yourself and let me know in the comments if it worked for you. And if it did, spread the word!

Update 1: Tried it with another post- results still in line with theory!

Update 2: When testing other posts of mine, I liked around the site a bit more and found this on the site I me tiones above.

“A post on Facebook says moving hashtags from the comments to the caption removed the ban, is this right?

No one knows how the internal algorithm works (other than Instagram). Yes, it removed the ban on that post but there is no workaround for the general case. There is no “trick” to avoiding the ban or cheating this test”

So my theory isn’t that original but it’s okay. It just means there may be something to it more than just me being a conspiracy theorist 😉