A Wooden Wall Rack With Hooks For Your Coats
Stop hiding your outdoor clothes in the closet and hang your hat and jacket on a handsome, handy coat rack.
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A coat rack will keep your jackets and coats at the ready, easy to pull on quickly for a dash to the mailbox in a sudden downpour. It's an informal, decorative accessory that provides a practical storage solution for outerwear overflow!
A sturdy, utilitarian coat rack affixed to the back porch wall is the perfect place for the kids to hang their snow-crusted jackets after a day of sledding. Place the rack low enough on the wall so that the kids can easily reach the hooks, and double the storage with deep shelf above to catch caps and mittens and other outdoor paraphernalia. It's also a good idea to use an attractive drip pan under your wall coat rack, so that muddy boots will have a place to dry without dirtying up the floor. When you don't have the floor space, or inclination, for a freestanding coat tree, a wall rack is a sensible alternative for easy storage and organization.
A classic design for a small entry, let your wall coat rack do double duty attached to a mirror and shelf unit. It's a warm look for your foyer, and the mirror/shelf combination gives you the opportunity for a last minute check of your appearance before you head out the door. And a narrow basket on the shelf can be the one place where you'll always find your keys!
We all need a place to hang our hat and there are a multitude of options in the marketplace. While some mission-style wooden coat racks are plain and simple, other styles can be quite ornate, featuring beveled mirrors, exotic wood trims, delicate inlays or antique brass frames and hooks.
Various wall mounted coat racks often have shelves above them but sometimes are as simple as pegs in a long board. Pegs or hooks range in number from two to eight in most cases. Some have a metal shelf with a pole below for hangers and some have double hooks in a wooden rail system that allows the hooks to move side to side.
You may be purchasing for a facility and therefore seek an industrial coat rack versus a furniture-quality accessory for the home. Sometimes called garment racks, these are rolling metal racks with an area at the top for hats and gloves and at the base a shelf for boots. Commonly used in a variety of public spaces such as schools and churches and other civic areas, they're also practical for a household storage area where you intend to store hanging garments.
Lots of looks for coat hooks:
You may wish to make your own coat rack with handpicked hooks, custom-sized to fit a particular spot on the porch wall or bathroom door. You may only need a single hook in some limited spaces, or a several creative hooks for the children's bedroom doors.
Coat hooks are made of every metal under the sun and in every shape as well. Three prong, Victorian knob, triple swivel, antique double, the single curl, the wrought iron, the brass, and the chrome - choices abound for these small sculptures posing as coat hooks. Cast metal and painted wood hooks take shape in the form of every flora and fauna imaginable, and add a touch of whimsy to any coat rack. Hooks that curve upward, topped with painted ceramic knobs are ideal for thin fabric coats that might show a crease from a "pokier" hook.
Many home furnishings and gift stores sell coat hooks fashioned from antiques like old garden tools, or crystal doorknobs. Even finials from lamps and curtain rods have been transformed into creative coat hooks. You're only limited by your imagination when it comes to buying or fashioning a coat hook, so cast your eye about the house and see what you come up with!
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