The opposite day, I used to be scrolling by reels, and I got here throughout a lovely hallway makeover. It caught my consideration as a result of the “after” had white wainscoting and a blue-green grasscloth on the partitions. It was very “me”. However as I watched it for the fourth or fifth time, I observed a lovely brass wall-mounted coat rack. I scrolled by the feedback to see if a supply was given, and I discovered that it was from Rejuvenation.
I get requested on a reasonably common foundation if we have now a coat closet for visitors. We don’t, so I assumed that this wall-mounted coat rack can be good for the slender wall house to the precise of our entrance door. So I instantly seemed up this coat rack, however discovered that it solely had three double hooks. I actually needed a bigger one with extra hooks. They really did have one, but it surely was $199, and that appeared like some huge cash for a brass wall-mounted coat rack.
I seemed up others, however none of them appeared as good because the Rejuvenation coat rack. And the one one which I did like simply as a lot because the one from Rejuvenation was too large for my wall house. So I obtained the intelligent thought to only make my very own. I had this imaginative and prescient of a walnut backing with gold hooks on it. I found some really pretty hooks on Amazon (affiliate hyperlink), so after they got here yesterday, I assumed this mission can be the proper diversion from the dreadful storage closet mission. (Sure, I’m procrastinating.)
I’ve loads of scrap plywood, so I used my desk noticed to chop a bit to the precise width for my wall house.
After which I made up my mind how I needed my hooks organized to find out how tall the plywood wanted to be.
As soon as decided, I reduce it down the precise peak.
I even have fairly a little bit of leftover walnut veneer from previous initiatives, so I reduce a bit and used contact cement to connect it to the plywood.
As soon as that was adhered to the plywood, I used a brand new, sharp razor blade to chop off the surplus.
For the perimeters, I made a decision as a substitute of utilizing veneer, I might use the gold tape that I used on my studio cupboards.
Right here’s how that seemed as soon as it was connected.
I attempted couple of various methods to place the walnut backing on the wall, however the whole lot I attempted (like a sawtooth image hanger and different image hangers) made it stand out from the wall. So I made a decision to only screw the board to the wall straight by all 4 corners.
Right here’s how that seemed as soon as it was absolutely connected to the wall.
To cowl these screw heads, I used these enormous gold tacks that I discovered to hold my outsized calendar within the studio, and I used wire cutters to chop the purpose off in order that I used to be simply left with the massive spherical gold head of the tack.
And I sizzling glued these over the screw heads…
After which I began screwing on the hooks. After the primary one was up, I began questioning this entire plan. I wasn’t loving it. However I made a decision to press on, and I put up the second. It didn’t get any higher for me.
I used to be so dissatisfied. Generally, I envision one thing in my head, and it seems simply pretty much as good and even higher than what I had envisioned. Generally issues don’t prove in any respect like what I had envisioned. And this one was positively a swing and a miss for me.
The actual bummer is that once I was taking it down and making an attempt to disassemble it, I stripped one of many screws, and so I can’t get this one off of the backer boards.
After which I attempted to connect the hooks on to the wall, and one of many screw heads twisted proper off of the screw.
So my thought didn’t work out in any respect. All I needed to do was procrastinate on the mission I actually wanted to be engaged on 😀 , and do one thing fast and enjoyable, and have some virtually fast gratification with a reasonably however helpful completed mission. However that didn’t occur. All I ended up doing was losing a worthwhile day once I might have completed my storage closet, and poking some holes in my wall that now should be repaired.
However that’s okay, proper? We win some, we lose some. And I prefer to share my failed initiatives as a result of (1) that’s the fact of DIYing. Each inventive goes to have a justifiable share of fails. But additionally, (2) I believe even my fails can probably spark one other inventive thought, if not for me, then probably for you. I can’t even rely the variety of instances I’ve watched somebody on-line create one thing that I had no real interest in, or one thing that I assumed was downright ugly, however their course of or the merchandise they used sparked a inventive thought for me
I ought to have simply carried out that within the first place. However I’ll discover a use for the opposite hooks. I would like a hook or two by the again studio doorways, and I’m certain I can use the remainder on my future closet. So at the least they gained’t go to waste. And I’m glad about that, as a result of they are surely fairly.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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