Apartment Projects #17: Hanging it up...

Brrr… you need a lot of layers up there Mike!!

-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Congratulations Mike, now you have a hangup that doesn’t require psychological help. Good work as always.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Very nice write-up, with great pictures. Love it, love the project!

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innovation
transformation
a good indication
for celebration

8 for debbie
2 for you

and places to sit in the kitchen

who could ask for more

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Ellen: Layers are what it’s all about! I didn’t even mention the sweaters, sweatshirts, heavy shirts… The “Warm Wear” tends to really pile up!
Stefang: Thanks Mike, that is a good way to look at it!
Smitty: Glad You liked it Sir!!
Patron: I’m as guilty as Debbie is, if not worse, at the “draping over the chair” thing!
If I can’t figure out a way to hang it up, I’m going to add some more pegs and a long handle… I’ll have the biggest Rake in Concord… :)

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Well as wide as it looks like the pegs are spaced, it appears you have room to double the pegs if necessary :-)

Nice functional coat-rack. I “ASSUME” you have an empty wall long enough to hang it on? :-)

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Mike I like your ingenuity
Biggest rake or a communal back scratch-er :)
Great practical project and it gives you shop time
with brownie points

jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Necessity mothers invention ! I see a perfect solution ! Good work Mike , I just wish I could share a bit of our unseasonal sunshine excess with you ! Bundle up and keep warm & Happy , don.s

-- some men see things that are and wonder why, I dream of things that never were and ask why not .... rfk

Thanks for sharing this with us and blogging it. It really came out great! :)

Sheila

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Cool project Mike. My youngest likes to wear hats. I told him he needed a place to hang them. He looked at me very confused when I came home with a board and a long stick of dowel. I love these little projects. Useful, inventive, and work much better than a trip to the department store.

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Great project Mike. I’m sure it will help you get through the long and cold winter up there!

-- Lorna, Cape Cod

Handily Done, Mike!

I really like the solution to making the angled holes. I’ve added that to my library of tips- Thanks!!

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that was very cool. nice work Mike.

I wonder if the screws on the back were even necessary if the pegs were glued in (or where they…)?

lived in one of those houses, and to this day I’m pretty sure some of those walls didn’t have any studs at all

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Nice rack Mike (I don’t nornmally say that to guys). I built 2 of these: one for all my hats and one in the kitchen entry for all our coats,vests,etc. I studied on the angled hole thing and came up with the exact same jig you did! Great minds think alike. I rounded my pegs on the router table though.

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Mike, I would rather have a row a pegs than a closet. I guess I am channeling my inner Shaker. Nice project.

-- Big Al in IN