The opposite day, I used to be scrolling by means of reels, and I got here throughout a ravishing 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 ravishing brass wall-mounted coat rack. I scrolled by means of 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 company. We don’t, so I assumed that this wall-mounted coat rack can be good for the slim wall house to the fitting of our entrance door. So I instantly appeared 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 appeared 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 extensive for my wall house. So I received the intelligent concept 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 once they got here yesterday, I assumed this undertaking can be the right diversion from the dreadful storage closet undertaking. (Sure, I’m procrastinating.)
I’ve loads of scrap plywood, so I used my desk noticed to chop a chunk to the fitting width for my wall house.
After which I decided how I needed my hooks organized to find out how tall the plywood wanted to be.
As soon as decided, I minimize it down the fitting top.
I even have fairly a little bit of leftover walnut veneer from previous initiatives, so I minimize a chunk 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 appeared as soon as it was connected.
I attempted couple of various methods to place the walnut backing on the wall, however every little thing 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 immediately by means of all 4 corners.
Right here’s how that appeared as soon as it was totally connected to the wall.
To cowl these screw heads, I used these large 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 complete 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 nearly 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 true bummer is that after 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 concept didn’t work out in any respect. All I needed to do was procrastinate on the undertaking I actually wanted to be engaged on 😀 , and do one thing fast and enjoyable, and have some nearly quick gratification with a reasonably however helpful completed undertaking. However that didn’t occur. All I ended up doing was losing a invaluable day after I may have completed my storage closet, and poking some holes in my wall that now have to be repaired.
However that’s okay, proper? We win some, we lose some. And I wish 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 in addition, (2) I feel even my fails can presumably spark one other inventive concept, if not for me, then presumably for you. I can’t even rely the variety of occasions 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 concept for me
I ought to have simply completed that within the first place. However I’ll discover a use for the opposite hooks. I want a hook or two by the again studio doorways, and I’m positive I can use the remaining on my future closet. So a minimum of 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 transform and embellish 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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