Reclaimed Piece of Wood Turned Coat Hook

Many years ago, my oldest son made a chair out of pine as a part of our homeschool woodworking class.  It was a design of simple construction but having made something useful was fun and gave him an opportunity to see what woodworking was all about.

This is the night of his highschool graduation celebration in 2008. Seth and his grandma (my mom) – and she is sitting in the chair he had made.

It was showing wear even then so I’m not sure when he actually built it. But fast forward to 2013 and the arm of the chair broke in half. Me being the sentimental girl that I am thought we should save the chair and try to repair it but since that never happened an executive decision was made by Seth that we needed to get rid of it. So it was taken to the burn pile where it was to be chopped into tiny pieces (sniff, sniff).

I just knew we needed to do something with the chair and one day inspiration struck. I went and took off one of the long boards on the back of the chair and decided to make it into a decorative piece with knobs. I have no idea what to call it since it’s not meant to hold coats but that’s probably the closest description I can think of. A coat hook.

I removed the piece of wood and after that the project became my husbands. haha

First he measured where the knobs would go.

Drilled holes…

…countersunk the screws on the back so they wouldn’t scratch and rub into the wall.

And after doing some measuring on the wall, the coat hook was screwed into the wall.

I found the knobs at Hobby Lobby for 50% off.

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

I purchased a clipboard from the dollar store, added a piece of scrapbook paper to fit and printed out an inspirational quote to hang from the clip.

I’m not done in this space but I am excited to see some progress being made!

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