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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 5, 2023

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I'm trying to hang up a mirror in my apartment. The landlord says I can't hang up anything that will permanently mark the wall, so screws, nails and glue are out. For some of the pictures I've hung up in the apartment, command strips have done the trick, but I tried doing that with this mirror and it fell off and broke the frame. (The mirror now in my possession is the same model as the one that broke.) The mirror is about 5kg or so (and Command strips are ostensibly meant to hold 7.2kg, so I'm annoyed that the first mirror fell). Any suggestions for how to hang it up without marking the wall?

UPDATE: tried using 6 command strips instead of 4, mirror fell down but I was able to catch it before it hit the floor. Hammered some nails into the top of the wardrobe where they can't be seen, drove screws into the top of the mirror, knotted a length of rope around the screws, then hung the rope from the nails.

I would use something like a painter's easel.

Thanks for the suggestion. The mirror already has legs, but we're tight enough on floor space as it is and I'm worried one of us will knock it over, hence why I'd rather fix it to the wall if possible.

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