Sometimes You Should Just Buy The Thing And Forgo The DIY (My DIY Wall-Mounted Coat Rack Fail)

The opposite day, I used to be scrolling by reels, and I got here throughout an attractive 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 an attractive 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’ve got a coat closet for visitors. We don’t, so I believed that this wall-mounted coat rack could be good for the slender wall area to the suitable of our entrance door. So I instantly appeared up this coat rack, however discovered that it solely had three double hooks. I actually wished 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 area. So I acquired the intelligent thought to simply 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 believed this challenge could be the proper diversion from the dreadful storage closet challenge. (Sure, I’m procrastinating.)

I’ve loads of scrap plywood, so I used my desk noticed to chop a bit to the suitable width for my wall area.

After which I made up my mind how I wished my hooks organized to find out how tall the plywood wanted to be.

As soon as decided, I lower it down the suitable top.

I even have fairly a little bit of leftover walnut veneer from previous initiatives, so I lower 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 sides, I made a decision as an alternative of utilizing veneer, I’d use the gold tape that I used on my studio cupboards.

Right here’s how that appeared as soon as it was hooked up.

I attempted couple of various methods to place the walnut backing on the wall, however every part I attempted (like a sawtooth image hanger and different image hangers) made it stand out from the wall. So I made a decision to simply screw the board to the wall instantly by all 4 corners.

Right here’s how that appeared as soon as it was absolutely hooked up 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 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 disenchanted. Typically, I envision one thing in my head, and it seems simply nearly 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 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 thought didn’t work out in any respect. All I wished to do was procrastinate on the challenge I actually wanted to be engaged on 😀 , and do one thing fast and enjoyable, and have some virtually instant gratification with a fairly however helpful completed challenge. However that didn’t occur. All I ended up doing was losing a invaluable day after I might 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 truth of DIYing. Each artistic goes to have a fair proportion of fails. But in addition, (2) I believe even my fails can presumably spark one other artistic thought, 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 believed was downright ugly, however their course of or the merchandise they used sparked a artistic 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 want a hook or two by the again studio doorways, and I’m positive I can use the remainder on my future closet. So not less than 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.