I love the lack of fireplace under that mantle.

Great tut though, I'm just gonna need to find some albums I'd like to hang.

hotmeatinjections

Combine that with my itunes albmu art and some photo paper and a decent printer! Voila!

Charli Wag

wicked, thanks for the idea! i've been trying to figure out what to put on my bare walls, other than my posters, which over the years have gotten a bit frayed. and posters do get kind of boring after a while.

nbenko

...okay, I guess this looks attractive to young people?? Because I think it's overly tacky.

Cornflakes

People in West Los Angeles interested in doing this, but who are sans vinyl would do well to visit Record Surplus on Pico, a few blocks west of Sawtelle. They've got an amazing collection of vinyl for sale. Not all of it is cheap, but the selection is staggering. Parking sucks though. Bring lots of quarters for the meters.

Bruce_A

expensive way: mount a 46" flat screen and wait for the itunes screensaver.

fuzzymuffins

Really keen on this idea. I presume it'd work with screws instead of those hook things though, and might be easier to get hold of, and you can screw them in with a screwdriver. Also you wouldn't see as much metal that way. Obviously, you'd need screws with large enough heads so as to stop the record slipping.

I'm gonna have a go at this using high-res album art, photo paper and blu-tac, I think :) Although i won't be able to play them..

itunes-guru

What kind of discount store sells Elliott Smith and Silver Jews in its discount bin? It must be a good one. Unless these are albums you already own.

pearl

@Cornflakes: im 25. its overly tacky.

PaaatrickBabyBoy

@pearl:

That's what I thought...

@Cornflakes: @PaaatrickBabyBoy:

I have to say that some of my favourite artwork comes on Album covers, and that in my personal opinion it is a little tackier to have a huge block of them, rather than three a bit more spaced out, but you can get some really amazing images for 10 pounds, and you can still listen to them. Amazing examples: Joy Divison's Atmosphere, and Justice Cross, which will now be adorning my walls.

endon

If you've ever been to Puregroove records in London, you'll know the awesome system they use for holding their records.
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christophski

Lame . . .

Here's a comparable method:
- Pound nails in wall. (Can be random placement 'cause you can take out the ones you want later.)
- Wrap duct tape around nail heads (or whatever ends up sticking out). This will stop album covers from slipping.

Heh!

gardner_monk

This is extremely tacky.

love23evol

I don't see the tackiness many of you are seeing. It definitely goes with the color of the wall, and since that guitar is mounted up there, it's not like it's completely random.

.endejas.

Hey, nice idea there for hanging up some records! I posted a tutorial online a few months ago for hanging up records in large numbers using cheap tile siding. Check it out:

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bonzo363

@christophski:

although the old one had a nicer atmosphere, yeah the system is awesome.

endon

Hmm, yeh, I dunno. For one: you're putting screw holes in your new wall? Two: for those of us old enough to remember, it kinda looks like a record store (in that very first picture anyway). Good choice on Rhymin' Simon though.

da5id_nz

@Charli Wag:

that's more along the lines of what I was thinking this article would be about.

I'd like to cover a wall or three in album covers some day....no spaces in between, a full wall covering. Not sure how I would do it since I'd definitely not buy each album I want on my wall, but It would be neat.

Mewgia

If you want a classier setup, try these.

infmom

Tacky? I find this looks great! Exactly the kind of art a student with no money can afford. I'm definitely going to look into this in the future.

Pharmacy

@Cornflakes: I'm 41 and I think it's an interesting idea. Would I do it? With the right albums, sure. Tacky is in the eye of the beholder. It's not as if someone's holding a gun to your head and telling you to do this or else, you know.

Bruce_A

This looks nice but I don't really know many interesting records (gasp!) so I might just do it with printed cd album art.

Looks Great! - I've been wanting to put some art up on my wall that I wouldn't have to pay for and here is the solution!

nick7er

Two words: Hercules Hooks

(Buy them in-store; do not buy them through the informercial)

trumpetfalcon

My dorm room thing: I prop up my favorite album of the moment on my desk so people can see what I'm into. A bit like what you're doing. I thought you were going to point out a service so that I could get nice, LP sized prints of album covers I liked, but even mediocre albums tend to have neat covers, so I'll keep this in mind.

TVarmy

@infmom: Yeah, but @ $13 those cost ~100x as much as the L-screws. Not so good for the 'on the cheap' do-it-your-selfer with a number of albums.

Aquila76

Forget the artwork. Did LifeHacker just write a tutorial on how to hang something on a wall using screws???

WTF is going on with the articles here lately? This entire article could have been summed up in the headline. "Hang album covers on a wall with screws." That's it. The other 529 words in this article appear to be there to fill a word-count requirement.

MacGizmo

@trumpetfalcon: Just a note: Hercules Hooks only work with drywall, so if your house/apartment walls are plaster (as in my 80+ yr old house, and most of the apartments I've lived in) they are totally useless.
They look pretty sweet for newer houses, though!

fonzette

if you're hanging album covers in a sunny room, on a wall that gets direct sunlight (or even indirect sun light) be careful to rotate your albums very frequently. otherwise you'll wind up with a lot of sunfaded albumn covers that have lost all their aesthetic and monetary value. works on paper that only receive indirect incandescent light should be rotated at least every 3 months. and don't forget to dust them! dust attracts moisture and moisture attracts mold.

anishka

I love vinyls, there's definitely something about the artwork displayed in FULL size, instead of the CD mini size most albums are released on now.
I also think you have some great taste. I think using vinyls as wall art is a great idea. I love love love album art.

ruindpzzle

@Cornflakes: @PaaatrickBabyBoy:

I'm 21 and (no offense, Adam) I think it looks sortof tacky in the picture.

HOWEVER.

I've seen it done before and if the selection is well coordinated and planned out (eg the albums have a specific arrangement like color palette, or one time I saw a sortof mosaic made of about 25 albums on a wall) it can look pretty slick.

jeebussez

I love this! I don't find it tacky at all. I can't believe I never thought of this before. The only method of displaying vinyl I found were $20 a pop frames, so this is much cheaper and much more convenient. Hopefully your next Step-By-Step will be how to hide holes in your wall!

Mary

I've been using album covers as wall art for years. I find the best thing to use are pushpins, because the album cover can sit right at an angle and no holes are made in the cover. Also, there are tons of different types of "album frames" on the market, including all-plastic ones from Bags Unlimited.

Maya

we used velcro squares on the top corners of the album art. not only did the velcro remove from the wall rather easily without peeling the paint, but it allowed us to still swap the pictures around very easily, and also make the album art like it was just floating on the wall.

ShabnumMullimbimby

I did this with poster tabs and worked great, with no damage to the wall (without the records in the sleeves). In the court of the crimson king looks great opened up, as does the mars volta's amuptecture artwork.

harbong