Hanging at Home

Pink :: And so begins my home documentation...

I posted about this idea back in 2007 on my personal blog but never showed the finished project. I had been using an old wooden mens pants hanger in my laundry room to hang up my spot removing list for years. My neighbor who had worked retail was selling more hangers at his garage sale so I bought all 10 of them. I thought it would be a great way to display art or photos in an easy-to-change manner. 

To make it look official and not like laundry gone bad, I used dark bronze/black oval drawer pulls screwed right into the drywall for the hangers to hang from. (There is a screw thingy that is two screws put together without a head so you can screw on the drawer pull and then screw it into the wall without one side unscrewing the other. I have the bag they came in around here somewhere but its late and I'm too tired to dig around for it. If I find it later, I'll post it.)

Here is what is currently on the wall beside my front door. 

My front door is mostly glass so you can see these inside when you are ringing my doorbell. It's a narrow wall so I hung 3 knobs but I think a 3x3 grid on a bigger wall would be striking. I'm displaying for the Post-Easter Spring season my eeboo Counting Bird Wall Art cards. (Fabulous illustrations. Entire post about my eeboo adoration coming soon.) I have the cards 4 thru 10 tucked around in different rooms.

 

I've used this set up to display photos, Little Think's artwork, packaging, ornaments, fabric pieces, etc. whatever I have felt moved to showoff. Here is the photo from my original 2007 post showing a photo of Mr. Think as a little boy digging at the beach. Just printed it from my computer and hung it for the summer.

We all have our "hang-ups" right? Show them off!  :: Think

Comments

[Sharon C.]

Great idea. I am trying to think where I could do something that clever -- borrowing ideas okay?

[Liz Brown]

I remember Kristi referencing this hangar idea of yours on her blog. Such a cute idea. I love those bird number cards. Very cute!

[michelle]

I LOVE THIS!