i love it when daddy's home :)

the day after christmas, my dad had a day off of work. those are rare for people of the postal profession, so it was rather exciting for us to have him home. while he was home, he helped me do several things around my room, one of which was a magnificent scarf hanger :)

i had found a nice design idea several weeks before when i searched "DIY scarf hanger" on pinterest. this is what i found:

i love the fact that neither the hooks nor the boards are uniform. so i let this idea sit in my mind for a while. i knew that we had some old cupboard doors in the basement, and i figured that could make a phenomenal base for the scarf hanger. i also knew that we had a drawer just chalk full of old hardware and various random things that had been left in this house when we moved in.




so,  i approached my dad with the idea. at first i was just going to ask his permission to use the stuff, and then work on it later on my own. boy, am i glad i didn't do that. this project proved to be time-consuming, rather technical and slightly labor-intensive, but it definitely paid off :)








STEP 1: find the materials. i managed to find a
good sized cupboard door as well as about 5 or
6 hooks that i could use. initially my dad thought
that we could use an old faucet as a hook as well,
but after thinking on that for a bit, he decided that
that would just be too much for us. so we just stuck with what we had.






STEP 2: decide which side of the cupboard to use. i really liked the hardware (especially the hinges) on the outside of the door, so i was going to try to use some technique with the paint to get an
antique-y look. then i just turned it around and there was exactly that antique-y look that i had wanted. so dad and i took the handle and the hinges off of the outside (picture on the left) and affixed them to the inside (picture on the right)

STEP 3:
 affix to the wall. this was the most technical part of the whole process. when i was thinking about doing it on my own, i was not thinking about drill bits, screw lengths, levels or anything technical really. just about how it would look when it was completed. also, when we were actually drilling the board onto the wall, that took a lot of strength. i would never have been able to accomplish that on my own.
this part took a lot of measuring, a lot of "measuring twice, cutting once", drilling holes, putting screws into those holes, checking to see that the board was level, etc. it was work.

STEP 4: affix hooks :)
we settled on the four most "rough" looking ones. the only technical aspect of this part was tracing the hole onto the door before drilling. this was the easiest part for me, especially since at this point i could finally see it coming together. this is the finished product before i put my scarves on it :)






and here is the final product with scarves/purses hanging on it, YAY! it really made my room feel like it's starting to come together...since moving out for college, my room has been the guest room and i never really felt like i was contributing much to the atmosphere of the place. now that i will be living here until august of 2012, i decided that it was finally time to make the room a little more my style. there are so many more things to do, but this definitely gave me the motivation i needed :)