Footboard Turned Coat Rack

Good Monday Morning! I wanted to share the newest project that I completed this weekend. What do you think?

I was in desperate need of this project completion. It's nice and low to the ground so that all the little ones at my house can hang up their own coats and get their coats without yanking them down from above. A few weeks ago, my son was yanking his coat off of the coat rack and broke one of the knobs off. There were only 3 knobs on there to begin with and now we were down to two. The next day he broke another knob off leaving us with only one knob to hang about twelve coats. So, for the last 2 weeks we have been throwing coats on the stairs, on the floor and on top of the shoe basket. Needless to say, it was driving my crazy! To tell you the truth, I was glad that it broke because it gave me the incentive that I needed to complete this project. I got this antique child's headboard and footboard in Pittsburg at an little flea market way back in June. I knew I wanted to make a coat rack out of it right away, but it didn't fit where I invisioned it going, so it went in the garage until I could figure out what I wanted to do with it.

Here is the before picture. I just fell in love with it right away and when I saw that it was only $10, I knew it would be coming home to Ohio with me! This is such an easy project to make! So here you go.

My, always willing to help, husband cut the legs off of the footboard with a circular saw. I sanded the bottoms where he made the cuts and then cleaned it up really well. I debated on painting it, but I really like it just how it is for my space. Then I went to Drug Mart, yes Drug Mart, and got these cute hooks! Discount Drug Mart saves you the runaround...just sayin'! There were only 2 for $3.49 and I got 3 packages.

 Position the hooks where you want them to go and screw them in. Easy, peasy! And here's the final product.

I would love to hear what you think. The best part is that I still have the headboard for a future project!