Sew Paint It: Wall Hooks on a Board

Monday 13 May 2013

Wall Hooks on a Board

I needed some hooks in the bedrooms. I often see them in shops and they are just one of the growing number of things I look at in shops and make a mental note that this looks easy and I should make this instead of buying it. It is a very long list now and made longer but the advent of pinterest. I have a board on there called things I want to make and it is just for this purpose.
Well I got around to making one thing, and it is a board with hooks on to hang on the wall and hang things on.

It is made completely with things I had to hand and so effectively cost me nothing.
It is made from an old drawer front with is solid wood and two hooks which I had lying around. They were both in houses we bought, and we took them down and kept them.

This is what they looked like before. I filled in the centre hole with filler and sanded it thoroughly. I lightly sanded the blue paint and primed it and then painted it with white semigloss.

I was going to use it like this but I decided it needed to be a little bit more interesting so I did decoupage with some maps from an old atlas. I also gave it a few coats with cabothane clear water based varnish on top.

Then I screwed it into the wall. The screws for this are hidden under the hooks. I could have made some way of hanging it on the back but decided to do it this was as we aren't going to be moving it.

I left the sides showing the dovetails from the old drawer sides. I like this detail.
I think I need to make some more and I may have to buy the hooks next time.
I hope you all had a nice mothers day, those of you who are mums and celebrated it yesterday. I had a wonderful roast dinner cooked for me and had a lovely day.