Brand New Branches
Rising tall, with arms stretching out as if to serve, the shapes of trees & branches are naturally endowed with excellent coat rack skills. Of course, hacking branches into various forms of racks is no new hack idea, yet new takes on the old trick renders it full of fresh hack-appeal. As we do not all have access to fallen trees in our back yards, I´ve also gathered some clothes rack ideas where a fallen branch or a couple of twigs will suffice to get you ready to make, among other things: Hanging Clothes Racks, Rods, Coat Racks & Coat Hangers…- Enjoy!
More is more
Fallen tree+Paint. Like the quirky style? Get more of it in my previous post on talented designer Nic Parnell
”If a tree dies, plant another in its place”/ Carl von Linné
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me /William Jerome
Au Naturel
Natural branches+black rope.
White washed
Irregular branch+white paint. DIY Tutorial here
Another painted example, using chains to lift the rod, D.I.Y tutorial available here.
Simply Hooked
Natural branch+2 hooks
For Toddler treasures
Natural branch+string
Easy Peasy Towel rack
Piece of drift wood+hooks
For Precious organizing
Twig+Paint+Small hooks. Like the painted twigs? More of those in this previous post
Drifty gem
Gettin´ Twiggy with it
Frame+Pieces of twig+Glue+Screws. Go to D.I.Y tutorial here
Tweak´a´Twig Clothes Hanger
Coat Hanger Head+Twig. You don´t really need a tutorial for this one, do you?
Further applications…
The variety of stuff you can make with some branches are endless. The scope of application stretches far beyond the wardrobe. I´d like to finish off this post by sharing some pieces by designer Sebastian Errazuriz, who works a lot with the branch aesthetic. He works with Baltic plywood, but i´m thinking his pieces might inspire some real-branch hacking action to make shelves and tables inspired by his quirky cool creations.
We just had some windy weather and I have a yard full of ideas just waiting to happen. My husband is going to think I have really gone off the deep end now when I want to save pecan tree branches and limbs, really Margaret, ”STICKS”. I can hear it now.LOL
Hey Margaret, love your creative attitude;-D
If you give some branch hacking a go, do check out this post for additional D.I.Y ideas for Twigs: http://scraphacker.com/twigs-sticks-diy/ and this post for ideas for D.I.Y Log Ideas http://scraphacker.com/log-hacks/
Good Luck on your projects!