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DIY | Branche Clothing Rack. Branche + paint + metal wires + hooks = amazing minimalistic looking floating clothing rack A new space to hang and display my favorite frocks, jackets, blouses, shirts and accessories. I found this amazingly shaped branche lying at the side of to the road in Brussels. I took it all the way back to my home in The Netherlands, painted it white with regular water based wall paint(latex) it turned out lovely and matte. Then I hung it between two metal wires that I attached to the sealing with hooks and... Voila!

Return of the She-Hulk Handywoman! DIY Clothing Rack From Galvanized Plumbing Pipes. Like plenty of us, I have space problems in my apartment. And first world problems in my closet. Our bedrooms are small, so little I sleep next to the wall and crawl out the bottom of the bed to get up in the morning. Not feng shui. My husband's clothes fit in our boudoir proper, but I've taken to the 2nd even teenier bedroom's closet for my apparel-storage needs and it's just never enough. I've had lofty dreams of turning the whole 2nd room into a closet, and I may be on my way to that now, especially with my latest She-Hulk Handywoman accomplishment: A 4-ft wide, 4-ft tall clothing rack made from ready-to-assemble parts you can pick up at a local Home Depot store in the plumbing department. I'm going to take you, photo-essay style, on a virtual shopping trip to show you exactly what you'll need to buy to screw one of these together yourself. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

That's totally all you need. Here's an extremely rough sketch of our design: So, here's what should come out: And a sexy side shot: Simple Clothing Rack. Project Details The German magazine Selber Machen, published and article that featured the use of Kee Klamp fittings in a couple of different home applications. This clothing rack design features some clean lines and the use of only a few Kee Klamp components. The basket is the Komplement wire basket available from IKEA. The basket height can easily be adjusted up and down to suit the needs of your location. The diagram is in metric. Parts Comments. Ten Green Modular Shelving: shelving and tables using glass bottles. For one module you will need: Four bottles. All the same brand/height/shape preferable. Wash them thoroughly in hot soapy water. Two hook and eye strainers / turnbuckles as they are sometimes called. I used the smallest I could find, which are 14mm OD at the buckle and 5mm OD at the threads.

Such as these from Screwfix. Two planks of wood, prepared as shown in the .pdf template - careful! *REVISION* I would now NOT drill the holes in the lower shelf (the 30mm ones) all the way through, but drill them from below to half depth, using a flat bit. Screw in the cup hooks halfway between the holes on either side, as shown. Ten Green Wee Shelving: small shelving unit using beer bottles. Some timber or other shelving type material (see next step). Hook and eye strainers / turnbuckles as they are sometimes called (1 per shelf). I used the smallest I could find, which are 14mm OD a the buckle, with M5 (ie. 5mm diameter) threads. Such as these from Screwfix, or there is a greater variety at absoluteindustrial as suggested by Kroner78. These should have a minimum reach of 160mm ideally, but this can be extended with ess hooks or some chain perhaps.

Screw hooks (2 sturdy hooks per shelf - 4mm diameter ones are best, such as these from Techni-cable). 2 x 32mm Glass plates such as these from Best are handy for securing the top shelf to the wall if you are going 4 shelves or higher. Beer bottles (2 per shelf). You will also need a 32mm flat drill bit or, better still, a Forstner drill bit and a power drill. 25 Awesome DIY Ideas For Bookshelves. Top 11 ways of turning pallets into furniture for outdoor. Wooden pallets keep on coming into our lives as opportunities to create a huge diversity of useful item. Since people can get enough of them we decided to show you a top 10 outdoor pallet designs.

After 21 ways of turning pallets into unique pieces of furniture and 25 more ways of turning pallets into unique pieces of furniture you probably imagine that there isn’t much left to see, well you can’t be more wrong. Check this out! 1.Pallet coffee table for backyard. Since we already established that pallets are a cheap way to build extraordinary objects with only two major ingredients: imagination and ingenuity, this back yard setting proves once again the versatility of this amazing object. To get started you will need two pallets, 4 coasters, a little something for spacing and of course a little bit of paint. 2.Balcony small pallet garden. Outdoor space doesn’t necessarily mean a huge back yard. 3.Deposit area in backyard from pallets. 4.Pallet turned into patio shelf. 5.Pallet sofa.

25 more ways of turning pallets into unique pieces of furniture. A while ago we showed you an article called “21 ways of turning pallets into unique pieces of furniture” where we enumerated a series of original items you could create using pallets. The list was quite long but definitely not exhaustive and since we’ve received good feedback we decided to continue with a second part of the article where we present you even more unique projects you can create with the help of pallets. We tried to come up with new examples, arranged according to the type of product you can create. Shelves. 1. This is an ingenious project created by a couple that opened a wine tasting room and decided to go with a rustic look. 2. Even though shelves were created as a functional way of adding some useful storage space, they can also be used as a decorative space in the form of display shelves. 3.

One place where you can never have too much storage space is the kitchen. 4. I personally find this piece very interesting. Sofas and benches 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Miscellaneous. 22 Most Beautiful Houses Made from Shipping Containers. Cat Inspired Project Becomes a Unique House in Japan. This next house is a one of a kind project, that was designed by Takeshi Hosaka Architects, in Japan, for a couple and two cats. Starting from the idea that humans and cats live together, rather than cats living in a human house, the architects came up with “a house inside which you feel being outside”. The Inside Out House is made up of two volumes. The outer one houses the bedroom and bathroom boxes and above those are the living room and deck. In an area of the inner volume light, wind or even rain could enter.

Moreover, living in an inside out house can be quite interesting due to the change of weather. In the summer the owners can enjoy a relaxing draft, because no air conditioning system was installed in the house. On the other hand, when it rains you have to find the spots where you won’t get wet.This funcky house is a way to stir up ones life, make the most out of the minimal and enjoy outside features inside. Stylish Small Town House in Japan. This unusually striking townhouse is located in Kyoto, Japan. It’s not particularly eye-catching as seen from the outside and the interior is not that impressive either. However, there’s something really special about this residence, something that makes it seem very cozy and inviting, just like a home should be.

The townhouse was a project by Alphaville Architects – Kentaro Takeguchi + Asako Yamamoto. It measures a total area of 78.68 square meters and it was completed in 2010. The main goal was to create an enjoyable and pleasant home.