I’ve been itching to make a few cosmetics tweaks to our front entry but have held off for five years because the hooks I’ve been eyeing are bold and beautiful but pricy!
Just recently however, I was lured to something else. Let’s explore the exciting world of coat hangers!
Which one do you like? Can you spot the one I’ve dreamt about? Can you guess which one swooped in and stole the spotlight? We will get to that but first,
Here’s the current space:
It’s a little awkward because in this small space there is a huge window + the exterior door + the door leading inside + an odd little old window that looks into the powder room (I know, weird). So what I’m thinking is:
- Keep the print and bench where they’re at
- Line up the hooks on the wall with the odd window and interior door
- Swap out the baskets for something nicer
- Add a mirror
- Touch up the paint
- Replace the boot trays
Here’s what’s staying:
- Wall paint – Benjamin Moore Newburyport Blue
- L.L.Bean Waterhog Doormat
- Ikea Sigurd Bench (discontinued)
- Wayne Thiebaud, Three Wind Toys print
Here’s what’s going/coming:
Coat rack (discontinued)Baskets(I want to find nicer versions – like this)Shoe mats(I want to bring cohesion to the boot trays because we have 2 different trays and one is cracked)- Mirror (like this or even smaller is fine)
We bought the coat rack in Montreal when our condo was about to go on the market – a little self-staging. Mike hates it so much that he refuses to hang his jackets on it and my gripe is purely self-inflicted – I can not control the amount of bulge it accumulates. It must go.
As mentioned above, there is one I’ve been eying for five years (below, left) but the problems is I want 3 of them side-by-side and that would be $600 US. I know. Crazy-stupid-love. I thought I’d never find another so I just accepted my fate and convinced my self that people should not judge my house by its entry – it’s what’s inside that counts (or something like that) until I landed on the Schoolhouse’s website and… SHUT THE FRONT DOOR… I found this beauty (below, right)! 
I think we can all agree it’s amazing. I still want three (eeek! maybe four) but at $80 each, that’s a third of the price so I feel really good about that. Plus hello yellow, you’ll look fabulous on my blue walls.
In the end, I hope this small change makes a big difference.
1. Crate&Barrel – Leigh Wall Mounted Coat Rack / 2. Anthropologie – Cayden Hook Rack / 3. Jpegs – Wooden Hooks / 4. Urban Outfitters – Mid-Century Modern Wall Hook / 5. Pottery Barn – Wooden Coat Hooks / 6. Design Within Reach – Eames Hang-It-All / 7. Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co. – Mollie Hook / 8. MOMA Store – Hello Coat Rack / 9. Design Within Reach – Coatrack Dots, Set of 5 / 10. Anthropologie – Le Bistro Coat Rack / 11. Jonathan Alder – Brass Finger Coat Hook / 12. Ikea – Hemnes Hat Rack / 13. Room&Board – Crew Modern Triple Wall Hooks / 14. Restoration Hardware – Coat Rack Bench / 15. CB2 – Journey Coat Rack
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Way back in February, when I was snow-bound at my parent’s house on the Wallace River, I wrote a list – 
Step 2: Roughly sew along the edge of all four sides to keep your burlap from fraying.
Step 3: For framing purposes, add a few more inches of scrap material to all four sides of the burlap. This can be done quickly. 
Step 4: Once the burlap is ready, draw with a ruler your artwork frame (mine was 16 x 16 inch square)
Step 5: Draw on tracing paper a design the same size as your frame. My mom suggested keeping things simple – meaning more curves and less small details and hard angles. The fun part was coming up with a design – I drew a folkish flower arrangement in a pot because it felt like the right thing to do for my first rug hooking adventure.
Step 6: Pin the tracing paper over the piece of burlap, match the frames and trace your drawing – when you trace it hard, the drawing shows up on the burlap.
Step 7: Now you are finally ready to hook! 
Step 8: Secure the piece of burlap to a hoop frame and start hooking away with your hook and yarn. I started with the flowers and jumped around, making sure to use lots of different colours. The yarn should be long enough that you can happily hook without running out too often. When doing small items (like petals, you may only need 6-12 inches). Once you get the hang of it, you will get better at judging how much yarn you’ll need. As you move around your design, you can adjust the hooking frame to keep the working area in the center.
Step 9: Once the flowers were done, I did the flower pot and background. These two sections were a lot less exciting but yet mindless and easy to work through. 
Step 10: When everything within the frame was covered, I was finally able to pull it out of the hooking frame, remove the scrap material and make a finishing edge around the 16 x 16 inch artwork with yarn. To do so, fold under the edges of the burlap outside of frame and pin in place. Lay your artwork face down on an ironing board and cover it with a piece of cotton or a towel and iron. Then you can finish sew along the four sides and remove the pins. 
Step 11: (This is when I handed-off the project to my mom) *cheater. I had scrap material which she used to make the backing of the pillow. We stuffed it and sewed’er shut. 
Step 12: Voila! 
Hooking is fun and easy. Sure, the better you are, they better it will look but what I love most about it is you can hook-away almost anywhere. The majority of my hooking was in the car (on our trip to Sunday River) or in front of the TV.
I plan to start a new project this winter – for me, it really is a seasonal sport – I have a design and am excited to show you what’s next. Spoiler: I am going to try type.
Hello Sunshine 