Sturdy Coat Hanger

DesertRose
by DesertRose
3 Materials
1 Hour
Easy

We have heavy winter coats, sweaters, and in between jackets that weigh more than most store bought hooks and pressed boards can handle. If you buy a ready made coat hanging flat hanger, it will probably be made from pressed board. If you have many heavy coats as we use, it may give way as ours did.

This board ran under our shelves that hold the hats, mittens and some other winter items.

My husband had some left over HARDWOOD pieces of board used to lay down for a wooden floor. He took one of the pieces and measured it against the pressed board that had broken and cut it. Also he found the 2 x 4 boards in the wall to be sure he anchored it to the wall on 2 x 4's behind the wall paper. If you do not know how to tap a wall gently to find the 2 x 4's, you can buy a tool at home improvement that will help tell you where they are located.

He used a small saw to cut the wood the right length. Rather than buy a pine board, he decided this hardwood would be better. Besides, he had these on hand and did not have to buy anything. He took the hooks off the old pressed board and saved them for the new hard wood.

Then he laid the old press board on the new hard wood to put the hooks in the same spread as they had been used. This saved him measuring between each hook to space them evenly. He eye balled it. If it looks even to the eye, it is close enough for this application.

This is where he made sure the new board is the same length as the old one so it would fit up under the hat/mitten bins. I should have shown this one earlier. If we ever move or sell the house, this is attached so it will stay, but we know an easy way to put up a coat hanger in the mud room in a new home if we ever need it! Floor boards !!

Then he put the hard wood board up in the place where the pressed board had been to hold our coats and jackets. You can see the screws in the center of the hard wood board. These can be filled with putty and painted dark brown if we want. The coats placed over the top hook covered it, so for now it is left with the screws showing. Of course he also put 2 screws into the 2 x 4's on each end to hold the board on permanently. No more broken press board! You cannot tell it ever broke. The hardwood dark wood matches the rest of the bins.

The end of the newly mounted board in this photo shows the bins above have a decorative piece that come down and cover the ends, so we did not have to do anything to the ends of the new board.

Suggested materials:
  • Floor boards hard wood   (on hand or home improvement store)
  • Screws and hooks   (On hand or home improvement store)
  • Saw   (On hand or home improvement store)
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