How to hang a home-printed wall calendar
A home-printed calendar is a loose sheet, and a loose sheet needs a mount that holds it flat without marking the wall or tearing the paper. Four options cover almost everyone: washi tape, removable mounting strips, a clip on a hook, or a bound block for the whole year. Which one you want depends on how often you swap the page.
A single sheet curls, so mount all four corners
One piece of tape at the top center leaves the bottom corners free to flop forward, especially on thin paper in a warm room. Fix that two ways. Mount at the corners, not just the top — four small anchors keep the sheet flat. And print on heavier stock: 80 gsm office paper curls, 120 gsm hangs flat, which is one more reason paper weight is worth choosing on purpose. Decide the orientation before you print, too — landscape gives wider day cells, portrait fits a narrow gap beside a monitor or door, and the size guide covers where each one belongs.
Washi tape: best for renters and monthly swaps
Washi tape uses a low-tack adhesive that peels off most painted walls cleanly, which is why it's the default for anyone who can't put holes in the wall. Run a small tab over each corner rather than a full frame — you'll use less tape and remove it faster. Two honest caveats: test a hidden patch first, because a few brands leave a faint adhesive line if left up for months, and on a dark wall in direct sun the paint around the tape can fade, leaving a lighter rectangle when you take it down. Skip it on fresh paint, flaking paint, or wallpaper.
Removable strips and poster putty: more hold, same no-damage promise
For heavier stock, a spot that catches a draft, or a calendar you'll leave up all season, removable mounting strips (the Command-style kind) or reusable poster putty hold better than washi and still come off without a mark. Put a strip or a pea of putty behind each corner. The strips are designed to release when you pull the tab straight down along the wall — pull outward and you risk lifting paint, so follow the packet.
A clip and a hook: for a calendar you reprint every month
If you replace the page each month, stop mounting the paper at all. Clip the sheet in a bulldog or binder clip, then hang the clip from a small adhesive hook or a single pin. Swapping months takes two seconds and never touches the wall — you reprint, unclip, reclip. This is the setup that suits a monthly calendar or a monthly habit grid you change twelve times a year.
Bind the year into one block
If you printed all twelve months at once, bind them. Punch the stack and thread a binder ring through the top, or clamp the edge in a cheap report bar or a clipboard. The whole year hangs from one hook, and you flip to the current month instead of re-hanging anything. It's the most permanent option and the tidiest — no loose sheets to lose, one nail to place.
Print it to hang in the first place
We export every calendar in portrait and landscape, in A4, A5, and Letter, so you can print the orientation and size that fits the wall you have rather than scaling one file to fit — all formats are in the set, $19 once. Print the A4 sheet at 100% scale on 120 gsm paper, anchor the corners, and it will hang flat for the month.