Wall Coat Rack From Dumpster Wood!
by
Dysko7710
6 Materials
3 Hours
Easy
I had a blank wall in my entryway that was screaming for something. I also needed a place to hang guest's coats. And I had no usable floor space left for a standing coat rack. Plus, my front entryway is not even designed well for a standing coat rack. And......I had this wonderful strong piece of wood I had grabbed outside of my husband's office building (yes, in the dumpster/trash area). I actually found it when I was collecting pallets for another project I was doing. Here is the final result of my project:
This was my inspiration, a picture frame I had hanging in the same entryway that I wanted to kind of 'match':
The first thing I did was to clean the wood piece, just wiping it down with a cloth that had some all purpose cleaner on it. Then, I stained it with Minwax ebony stain. This stain is black if you do several coats. But if you just do one or two light coats, it comes out more as an espresso brown, which is what I wanted.
While that was drying, I got started on the three picture frames I was going to use as decoration. I also had three old wall hooks that were sturdy enough to use on this. I was going to paint them as well and mount each one inside of the picture frames. On each frame, I painted it a dark color - an espresso acrylic mixed with some baking soda to thicken it and help it stick to the frame, let this dry, then spread glue over it and immediately painted over the glue with my brighter (I used three different colors, one for each frame) color to get a crackled effect.
I painted all of the hooks in espresso acrylic paint (which was also my base color for the frames). I then just dry brushed a little bit of my matching brighter colors over the hooks to match the frames.
Once everything was dry, I first nailed in two tooth hangers to the back of the board, so I could hang it on the wall and it would stay up. Then, I gorilla glued the frames onto the wood. Finally, I screwed the hooks into the middle of each frame.
Here it is in the hallway across from it's matching picture frame.
I hung it on the wall using wall anchors and screws to be sure it would stay up and be able to hold the weight of coats.
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