Trash-to-Treasure: Coat Rack

After sifting through the trash & Goodwill piles, we created this bad boy from scratch:

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We were lucky enough to find a simple pedestal table as a great base for this project:

  As soon as I saw that table, I immediately saw the potential for a coat rack base.  When I explained my idea to Kelli to create a coat rack from this & that, we headed off to our local home improvement store for a table leg and also our fav craft store for the wooden ball to top it off.  We collected some candlesticks from our craft stash, originally thinking we were going to use them but as Kelli walked past her donate pile, the light went off and we snagged the feet from this old side table:

From there we began the assembly of the rack.  

We placed things here 'n there, holding it up with every available hand until it was "just right." 

{Kristi}

 It was fun to see how similar our taste really is when we pieced things in the same order and decided what needed to be cut or trimmed in unison.  Twins! ;)  

We had a heck-of-a-time getting all the parts sturdy but alas, after some elbow grease, it is now kid-proof!  We added dowels & screws to each piece then putty'd it and painted over it.  You'd never know! 

Anyway we chose a pale blue-ish gray for the rack, mostly because it was free (borrowed a can of oops! paint from our older sis Sandee- thanks San!) but also because this is her housewarming gift ;)

We added a little glaze to the crevices, sanded the corners a bit then screwed on 8 matching hooks {had them in our craft stash but they're from Ikea}:

{Kelli}

Viola!

Trash-table turned Treasured-coatrack:

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