The opposite day, I used to be scrolling by means of 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 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’ve got a coat closet for friends. We don’t, so I assumed that this wall-mounted coat rack can be good for the slim wall area to the proper of our entrance door. So I instantly regarded 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 regarded 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 area. So I bought 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 discovered some actually fairly hooks on Amazon (affiliate hyperlink), so after they got here yesterday, I assumed this venture can be the right diversion from the dreadful storage closet venture. (Sure, I’m procrastinating.)
I’ve loads of scrap plywood, so I used my desk noticed to chop a bit to the proper width for my wall area.
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 proper top.
I even have fairly a little bit of leftover walnut veneer from previous tasks, so I minimize 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’d use the gold tape that I used on my studio cupboards.
Right here’s how that regarded 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 straight by means of all 4 corners.
Right here’s how that regarded as soon as it was totally connected to the wall.
To cowl these screw heads, I used these big 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 scorching 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 disillusioned. Typically, I envision one thing in my head, and it seems simply pretty much as good and even higher than what I had envisioned. Typically 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 attempting 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 venture I actually wanted to be engaged on 😀 , and do one thing fast and enjoyable, and have some virtually quick gratification with a reasonably however helpful completed venture. However that didn’t occur. All I ended up doing was losing a beneficial day once I may have completed my storage closet, and poking some holes in my wall that now must be repaired.
However that’s okay, proper? We win some, we lose some. And I prefer to share my failed tasks as a result of (1) that’s the truth of DIYing. Each artistic goes to have a justifiable share of fails. But additionally, (2) I feel even my fails can presumably spark one other artistic concept, if not for me, then presumably for you. I can’t even depend 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 artistic concept for me
I ought to have simply executed 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 remaining on my future closet. So not less than they received’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 beautify 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 may be taught extra about me right here.
