We don’t have a coat closet or a hall closet, so we have been using a hand-me-down coat tree in a corner of our dining room to hang jackets, coats and purses. It wasn’t fancy, but it did the job. That is until a couple of months ago, when Elise took up the practice of pushing furniture around like a worker ant. Before disaster came to pass, I thought I’d better remove the coat tree and replace it with some simple wall hooks.
I got these pretty cast iron hooks and knobs 50 percent off at Hobby Lobby and mounted them to a piece of painted wood. (I did get some help from my dad mounting it to the wall. I didn’t want it to come crashing down with heavy use.)
I wasn’t really sure what color would work best. I painted it brown. Then I painted it blue. Then I painted it with a thin coat of white. I’m not completely happy with the white because the blue is showing through, making it a very cold white. (Hindsight says I should have stuck with the brown.) But now that the hooks are functional, I’m feeling a bit too lazy to remove the hooks and repaint. Maybe later.
I totally love this! I can’t wait to craft my own one of these days. Hobby Lobby has the best hooks! And I’d dream of creating one with Anthropologie hooks. Very cute, Erin!
Hobby Lobby does have the best hooks and knobs. They are really cheap and a lot of them look like they could be on the shelves at Anthro.