Great amount offers of floor hangers for clothes makes you think: what if you do it yourself? At home, a hanger for a suit, hangers for outerwear and children's clothing, which are covered with a dust cover, are relevant and practical furniture. Such furniture fits perfectly into the interior; it can be easily moved around the room and apartment.
Clothes on such a hanger wrinkle less than in a closet. It is sometimes called a dressing room, because it allows you to partially unload clothes furniture cabinet, and the costumes will be on display. It is also convenient to place children's things on this design. A cover for the hanger is necessary as protection from dust.
The main difficulty in making it yourself is processing surfaces and maintaining dimensions. Part matings should be maximum, which is not always possible to achieve manually. Therefore, when making floor hanger for clothing, a combined method should be used: some of the parts and operations will have to be ordered from professionals.
Model selection
Most convenient model According to surveys and the number of sales, the floor hanger for a suit with a cover is a hanger of the following design:
The dimensions can be changed at your discretion. It is advisable to attach a hook for children's hangers on the upper radius board on the back side. This will expand the range of possibilities for using the hanger. The thickness should not be greatly reduced, since parts may bend under load. Increasing the size within reasonable limits will make the hanger more stable.
You can choose any material: beech, ash, cedar, birch or pine. The latter is the most accessible. It is easier to process and finish. When choosing a material, the moisture content in it is especially important, since when drying, raw wood parts change their geometric shape. Simply put, the part may become bent or curled up like a propeller. Once the model has been selected, you should begin preparing materials.
Material selection and preparation
For making at home, it is best to choose pine blanks. They are the most commercially available and easy to process. Suitable for children's and wardrobe hangers. They are not electrified when covered with a synthetic cover. Their advantages in comparison with other types of wood:
Manufacturing of parts
This is the main operation on which quality depends finished product. As can be seen from the drawing, you should prepare or buy wooden blocks and pine boards. They should not have knots larger than 5 mm. The wood must be dry. Curvature of bars and boards is not allowed. When purchasing, be sure to take into account those changes that were made taking into account the specifics and location. Some tips:
- The bars should have a small margin for processing. When purchasing, it is better to take two blanks for one part, taking into account possible defects during work;
- Correct geometric shape. This is checked visually. The curves of the product are immediately visible;
- The length is taken with a margin of at least 3 cm. It will not be possible to carefully saw off 5 mm at home with a jigsaw;
- You will have to look for round crossbars with a diameter of 18 mm. If this size is not available, then these parts will have to be ordered;
- It is advisable to treat finished parts with antiseptic agents before varnishing;
- the cover can be made of fabric or other material.
Required for production minimum set hand and power tools:
Required materials for making a dressing room or children's clothing rack:
- high-quality pine beams;
- self-tapping screws for wood;
- wood drills;
- pine wood varnish and stain;
- hand carpentry tools;
- case.
Modern power tools are equipped with nozzles for suction of sawdust and dust from working area using a vacuum cleaner. At home, this option is very useful.
A set of blanks is now available. Prepare them in accordance with the dimensions according to the drawing. Compare symmetrical parts. They should be the same. Saw to size, sand flat surfaces with a grinder. Curvilinear process sandpaper. This is the most labor-intensive part of making a costume floor hanger. When sawing, you may find that the wood in the thickness of the solid is damp. In this case, it will be difficult to sand the surfaces. Such parts must be dried before finishing. room temperature. Depending on the level of humidity, the drying process may take several days.
Assembling a wardrobe floor suit hanger
This is the final stage of the process of making a floor hanger for clothes. All parts are made according to the drawing and the compliance of dimensions is checked, since they are all already marked on the manufactured parts. You should pay attention to the quality of the fasteners. That is, a choice of screws and self-tapping screws. General recommendations by choice of screws:
- The length should not exceed two thicknesses of the parts being fastened. Otherwise, the screw will pierce the surface of the second part and everything will be ruined. On pine pieces, there is no need to drill a hole in the second piece being fastened;
- Select the color of the screws in accordance with the color of the material coating;
- Self-tapping screws must have a purpose for woodworking. The use of metal screws will significantly reduce the strength of the connection.
An important procedure is marking for drilling holes for fasteners. It is absolutely necessary to use the hole location markings. You need to mark the drilling location in such a way that the drill does not go awry. In this case, the strength of the connection between the parts will be insufficient.
The diameter of the hole that needs to be drilled for the mounting screws should be half the diameter of the screws themselves. The absence of holes can lead to splitting of the wood during the process of tightening the screw and the work will be ruined.
Tips for tightening screws with a screwdriver:
- Do not screw the screw in completely. A screwdriver has a high torque and can turn a self-tapping screw in a material.
- The final tightening of the fasteners should be done manually with a screwdriver so as not to turn the screw in the hole, since in this case the connection will lose strength.
When the floor hanger is assembled, it is sometimes necessary to varnish the joints with self-tapping screws. The screw heads should be level with the surface. These places should be sanded and varnished along with the screw head.
Features of children's floor clothes hangers
Apart from size, children's floor hangers are no different from adults. Thickness of parts for children's version may be reduced. Accordingly, the weight will be less, which will enable the child to move his children's hanger himself. The dimensions of a children's floor hanger should be selected taking into account the size of the child's clothing. Designs for girls and boys may vary. It is advisable to provide in the design the ability to hang hangers with clothes on a hanger and then cover them with a cover. To do this, you can adapt two metal hooks on which hangers will hang. The hooks can be placed on the back of the structure or on the sides.
Other options for floor hangers for suits and clothes
Figured wardrobe suit floor clothes rack
This option looks original, but when made at home, some difficulties may arise with the manufacture of curved parts. It is difficult to maintain symmetry when working with a jigsaw. Both parts need to be cut out by aligning and fastening the two blanks. The total thickness should not exceed the cutting depth parameter of the jigsaw. Modern household models are designed for a cutting depth of up to 70 mm, and this is quite enough. But this model is not suitable for shirts and blouses. That is, the possibilities of use are limited.
Mobile wardrobe suit rack on wheels
Another interesting model on wheels. The top of the design is topped with regular hangers, which is very convenient for placing a jacket, shirts and blouses. And it is convenient to hang trousers on the crossbars. Wheels are a good design feature, since a loaded hanger is more convenient to roll than to carry. A film or fabric cover will conveniently cover the hanger.
This model is produced by IKEA in Russia as a suit and wardrobe floor hanger.
It’s not difficult to make one with your own hands. Required special fasteners. As can be seen in the figure, the vertical posts must be attached to the base with metal screws. During manufacturing, you will need to carefully and accurately drill holes for screws in vertical racks. This is the only difficulty. Everything else is very easy to manufacture and assemble. The disadvantage is the need to disassemble the structure during transportation. You will have to unscrew the long bolts from the vertical posts.
Collapsible suit hanger rack floor in a rustic style
This hanger is more suitable for a hallway or corridor. You can put shoes under it. This model is quite difficult to make with your own hands. Holes required large diameter in intersecting round posts. In general, it is very difficult to drill holes in round parts with household tools. It's better not to try. To get around this unpleasant technological nuance you can take non-round square posts. Using a special drill, making holes of the required diameter in square bars is quite possible. It is recommended to use a metal crossbar. The wooden one will sag.
Clothes hangers are a must-have attribute in every home, as otherwise arranging outerwear is quite problematic. In addition, floor hangers are also useful in the bedroom, so as not to put clothes in the closet every night and not to use chairs or armchairs. But in the store beautiful furniture It's quite expensive, so The best decision This is a DIY floor clothes hanger. After all, from inexpensive materials you can make original and beautiful hangers that will significantly decorate and make your interior comfortable.
You can make a clothes hanger from almost any material. But if you are going to do it yourself, you should approach the choice of material carefully.
Wood and plywood are best suited for work; these are the most practical and flexible materials that are easy to work with. If products made from them are used in the home, they are guaranteed not to be exposed to moisture and their service life will increase significantly.
Working with metal or plastic at home is quite difficult, so you should not choose these materials. It is worth considering the fact that sometimes a significant load is placed on the hanger, so you need to use materials of appropriate strength so that the furniture does not break.
Examples of floor hangers using metal water pipes
When you buy wood or plywood, pay attention to their quality, because this is the key to making the hanger look beautiful. In most cases wooden crafts are covered only with stain or varnish, so the texture remains visible on the surface.
Floor hanger in the form of a tree
Making a floor hanger is easy and doesn't require many tools or materials. This hanger is made of two sheets of plywood, approximately 70x170 cm in size, and 18 mm thick. To make it you only need glue, a jigsaw and sandpaper. The work itself will also not take much time and you will not find such hangers in any furniture store.
First you need to draw the outline of the future product on one of the sheets of plywood. This can be done simply by transferring a drawing to scale onto plywood. The most important thing is that the legs are of sufficient width - about 60 centimeters. This is necessary for stability, since if you make them narrow, the hanger will fall if you hang heavy winter clothes on it.
In order not to draw a picture on the second sheet of plywood, before you start cutting, you need to simply fasten the two sheets of plywood together using self-tapping screws or clamps. It's best to use clamps, moving them as you cut the plywood. Make sure that the sheets do not move and that both blanks are the same.
To connect the blanks and turn them into a hanger, you need to make two slits. On one workpiece you need to make a slot to the middle from the top, and on the second from the bottom. The width of the slot should correspond to the thickness of the plywood.
Both slots with inside you need to treat it well with glue, and then put the blanks on one another. As a result, you will have an original and beautiful floor clothes hanger, which only needs to be sanded and painted.
As you can see, making a floor hanger with your own hands is not a difficult task even for a beginner. And you can decorate it in any way. You can simply coat the plywood with stain, varnish, or paint it. If you reduce the size, you get a children's clothes hanger that will decorate any room, especially if it is painted.
Wooden hangers made from natural elements
good design solution are stands made of natural natural materials. Or rather, from a tree trunk. This clothes hanger is very easy to make and does not require special tools and materials.
First you need to find good preparation made of dry wood, it must be completely dry and free of rot. The type of wood practically does not matter, but it is worth remembering that conifers With high content It is better not to use resins. Glue may ooze from the barrel even after it has completely dried. It is best to use deciduous trees with a well-branched trunk to provide more space for clothing.
First you need to completely clear the trunk of bark, cut the lower branches to a height of one meter, and shorten the upper ones so that there are branches on which you can hang clothes. Then you need to completely sand the stand and clean it of dirt and irregularities. If the wood has been damaged by a bark beetle, this does not interfere, as it creates a rather beautiful pattern that will fit perfectly into the design of the hanger.
The second stage of the work is the stand, since the tree trunk cannot stand on its own. The most important thing to remember here is that the more massive the stand, the more stable the hanger will be. You can make a stand from a thick board, it will the best option for work. The stand itself can be given any shape, it can be a circle, square, triangle or any other geometric or abstract shape.
You can attach the stand to the stand different ways. For example, if the lower part of the tree is quite thick, then you can simply screw the board to it with self-tapping screws. The screw heads will be at the bottom, so they will not be visible. If the bottom of the tree is relatively thin, then you can fix it in a stand by making a hole in it; it should be no larger than the diameter of the trunk itself. Then simply attach the stand to the stand with glue - this method is the most reliable.
It is worth remembering one feature of the tree trunk - it has a cone shape. Therefore, it is better to make the hole in the stand smaller than its diameter, and carefully trim the bottom of the tree. This way, the stand will hold well and there will be no gaps at the joint.
When the wooden hanger is ready, you just need to coat it with varnish, since it is better to preserve the natural color of the wood. But if a light-colored hanger doesn’t suit your design, then you can easily use stain or dark paint.
Original and very practical option floor hanger, which is easy to make, make it in the form of a ladder. This accessory is perfect for the bedroom if you don’t like to use an armchair or the back of a chair to store clothes in the evening.
For production you will need only two bars approximately 5x5 thick and 170-180 cm long. Also for the crossbars you will need three smaller bars, the length of which will be equal to the width of the hanger. All bars are sanded or processed with a plane. To make the hanger look beautiful and neat, it is best to connect the parts together using spikes.
Then you just need to cover the hanger with stain and varnish. A convenient and comfortable clothes rack is ready. As you can see, this DIY clothes rack is very simple and is suitable for a bedroom or summer house.
Like anyone wooden object interior, such a stand for clothes will look great in almost any interior and you can place things on it so that they do not get wrinkled. If desired, you can also use several coat hangers that can be hung on the top bar. If during the day the hanger is in the way, you can simply take it and place it standing, since it is light and does not attach to anything.
Other types of floor hangers
Although floor stand for clothes is a rather simple element of the interior, but there are many ways to make it. You just need to show a little imagination and remember that the structure must be stable. Otherwise, you can make clothes racks from any available material.
You also don’t need any special tools for the job. Of course, there are hangers made on lathe made of wood, but they are made by professional carpenters.
Remember that any piece of furniture you personally make will not only be the next step in your skill. If you do something with your own hands, then this thing will be unique and one of a kind.
In addition, by making furnishing elements yourself, you not only show your individuality, but also save significantly. Since even the simplest clothes racks in the store will cost an order of magnitude more than the material for the craft. And this is another incentive to start making things yourself, since the products self made, are even more expensive.
Floor hanger, one of the most simple tasks. Therefore, you should not buy it in a store, but rather make it yourself.
If several people live in your apartment, then there will definitely be a need to store and place the wardrobe of each of them. And then you can’t do without such a device as a clothes rack. This design will fit perfectly into both spacious room with a dressing room and a small hallway. Such a stand would be very appropriate in a country house.
Advantages of floor racks
- The clothes rack is very easy to disassemble and assemble. And most importantly, this does not require special skills.
- If you store clothes on hangers, then as a result they will not cake or wrinkle, their appearance will always be impeccable.
- The cost of a floor stand compared to a cabinet is much less.
DIY floor rack for clothes
Quite often, there are not enough hangers in the hallway and not many things can be placed on them. And sometimes you need to place your shoes there. In this case ideal option will be a floor stand made of metal pipes of small diameter (15-25 mm). You will also need screws, a drill and, if necessary, furniture wheels if you plan to then move the rack to another room.
Step-by-step instruction
The process of creating this design is as simple as possible.
- The vertical base will be long pipes (1.4-1.8 m) - 3 pieces.
- Shorter pipes (0.8-1.0 m) - 4-5 pieces - will be used as lower horizontal crossbars. In this case, one of them is fixed in the lower vertical axis. The remaining pipes are screwed tightly to it, thereby creating the bottom of the rack.
- A crossbar of similar length is fixed horizontally on top, fixing the verticals.
- Next, perpendicular to it in the same plane, it is necessary to screw the products, 0.4-0.5 m long. In the same way, they are fixed at the ends.
- Subsequently, hanger hooks will be located on this crossbar. At the same time, the lower base, due to its area, will allow you to keep the structure vertical.
- So, the floor rack for clothes is ready. If necessary, it can be placed on furniture wheels, which should be placed in the corners around the entire perimeter.
Wooden clothes hanger
A DIY wooden clothes rack is a budget option. And the main thing is that you definitely won’t find one like this in a store. On it you can place various clothes: robes, dresses, T-shirts, shirts, belts, ties and much more.
Design detailing
It will look like this.
- For the lower fastening element (floor legs) you will need boards measuring 15 x 30 x 360 mm.
- The middle element (racks) will be made of planks 20 x 30 x 280 mm.
- For the upper fastening element (hangers), you will need to take boards measuring 20 x 80 x 460 mm.
- For a short rack we take strips 20 x 50 x 763 mm.
- Boards measuring 20 x 50 x 1003 will be required for the long rack.
- As a connecting element, you will need to take three types of blanks, 460, 430 and 390 mm long, with the same diameter - 18 mm.
- Each structural element must be made of dry planed boards. Sharp edges are rounded using sandpaper.
- Then holes of the required diameter are drilled. It is advisable to treat the wood with an antiseptic and then cover it with a decorative composition.
- The rack parts are connected to each other using chrome wing nuts, threaded rods or oversized washers.
- The racks are held together by chrome plated metal pipes or cylindrical wooden elements of appropriate length. This is done using glue.
- Hangers are installed on top. The planes of the joined elements are treated with glue.
- Thus, wooden stand for clothes (photo shown above) assembled. Such a stylish detail can decorate the interior of any hallway.
The first impression of the owner of the apartment begins with the hallway. It is not always possible to place large furniture here. A wall hanger is sufficient. Ease of use and durability depend on its design and the material from which it is made.
Depending on the number of family members, a wall hanger in the hallway can be large or small, for one or two walls. A double hanger on two walls is called a corner hanger. This type of hanger has one drawback: in order to install it, you need to drill into the walls and install dowels. To do this you need a hammer drill or you need to invite a specialist.
What types of wall hangers are there?
Let’s define it right away: wall hangers are those that are hung on the wall. They make them from various materials:
- wood;
- chipboards, MDF;
- metal;
- combined.
There are many styles of furniture in the interior. Since the majority of the population does not live in the royal chambers, the following styles are most suitable for the mass consumer:
- functionalism,
- minimalism,
- country,
- high tech,
- ethnicity
If you have a hallway, a small wall hanger solves a lot of problems. Additionally, the hangers are equipped with cabinets, mirrors, and shelves. Depending on the height of the room structural elements placed horizontally or vertically.
IN small hallways you can choose a design that takes up minimal space. Structurally, they are assembled or disassembled. Prefabricated structures are assembled at the plant and sold to finished form. Prefabricated ones include solid wood and metal. Collapsible ones must be assembled at home from purchased parts.
Advice: Choose a hanger to match the design of your apartment or hallway
Solid wood hangers
For wooden hangers in the hallway, various types of wood are used: oak, beech, ash, birch, spruce, pine. Hooks can be wooden or metal. Modern wood stains allow you to add any shade to wood.
Design options come with or without a shelf for storing hats. Large hangers can be equipped with mirrors, shelves, drawers for storing small items and shoes.
Wooden products are always expensive. Moreover, it should be noted that soft pine or spruce wood can be more expensive than oak or beech. It's not about the price source material, but with the difficulties of technological surface treatment. Soft spruce wood is poorly processed; after sanding, risks from abrasive remain. The array is coated with varnish, wax or simply painted. The advantages of solid wood products are their environmental friendliness and long service life.
Hangers made of chipboard, laminated chipboard, MDF
Chipboards and MDF boards V furniture production occupy strong positions. They are inexpensive, covered with laminated films to resemble valuable wood species, they do not warp, they hold geometric dimensions the entire period of operation.
MDF is a fine fraction fiberboard. They are perfectly milled and coated with paints, varnishes, and films to resemble valuable wood species. In terms of their consumer qualities, MDF is superior to chipboard, but they are more expensive.
Chipboard, laminated chipboard and MDF boards are sold ready-to-use for home craftsmen. After cutting, you only need to seal the ends with laminate or special plastic covers.
Metal
The design of wall hangers made of forged metal gives the hallway newness and originality. Structurally, it can be made in different options: with or without shelf for hats, with decorative mesh separating clothes from the wall, with different decorative hooks.
However, to complete the picture, a metal hanger requires additional products made by forging: a shoe stand, a mirror, a key holder and others.
Combined
All known materials are used for combined hangers. There are no restrictions here. Appearance depend on the designer's imagination. The choice of materials for making wall hangers is huge.
Pay attention to the hooks. Preference should be given to metal ones. In winter, heavy clothes will be hung on hooks: coats, sheepskin coats, jackets. The further use of the furniture will depend on their strength.
Color selection
Since there are no windows in the hallway, the choice color scheme furniture plays a huge role. Keep in mind that White color expands the space and dark colors furniture is narrowed. Choose wall hangers in light colors. If the hallway is connected to other rooms, then in this case the style of the hallway should be in harmony with the common room.
How to choose a wall hanger
You must choose based on:
- number of family members;
- design;
- financial capabilities;
- prefabricated or non-demountable structure.
Before purchasing, decide on additional accessories:
- shoe sections;
- shelves;
- wall or floor boxes;
- shoe rack;
- mirrors
The leaders in the production of this type of furniture are Ikea and Leroy.
In addition to assembled wall hangers, Ikea offers hundreds of options for coat hooks made of various materials, ranging from plastic to metal hooks anodized in gold or silver.
The company does not lag behind its competitor Leroy Merlin. The main thing is not to get confused among the hundreds of options for coat hooks. Both companies use modern MDF materials, chipboard, metal, plastic, glass.
How to make a wall hanger yourself
In order not to waste time and not overestimate your strength, let’s say right away what you can do yourself, inexpensively and with a minimum of tools, and what you can’t. It is impossible to make a hanger from solid wood without specialized tools and work skills. Buy circular saw, milling cutter, grinding machine and other tools make no sense. For this money you can buy several products.
In fact, you can make a wall hanger from forged elements plus chipboard or MDF panels. You can also use laminated chipboard.
Procedure
- Select a photo from the Internet and make your own design. Make a sketch of the future hanger with all dimensions.
- Provide vertical or horizontal strips separating clothes from the wall to prevent them from being wiped off.
- Select the required invoice Laminated chipboard films and order cutting to your sizes at a construction hypermarket.
- Sand and seal the ends with a special film using PVA glue.
- If there are connections with screws or furniture ties select special plastic plugs to hide them.
- Choose hooks with more screws than two. Keep in mind that chipboard is shavings and sawdust. Before screwing in the screws, drill a hole with a diameter of 1 mm and drop a few drops of PVA glue into it.
- The same goes for wall mounts. Make sure that the screws do not come out on the front side.
- Using a hammer drill, drill holes in the wall for plastic dowels and drive them into the wall.
- Install the hooks or loops on which the wall hanger will be mounted.
- Place the hanger in place.
A floor hanger is a mandatory attribute of any hallway room, be it an apartment or Vacation home. Its price depends on the originality of execution and quality of materials. The easiest option is to purchase such a design at your nearest furniture store. But there is another way out of this situation, so as not to overpay - to make a floor clothes hanger with your own hands.
A little theory from a physics course
To achieve this goal, you will need a little knowledge of physics, as well as available materials and tools. Let's start with the first one. The main requirements for a floor hanger are stability and the absence of sharp elements, so as not to damage the floor, wall or clothing.
Sustainability is achieved in several ways. If the floor hanger rests on one base, usually in the form of a cross or a circle, then it is necessary to ensure that the center of gravity is as low as possible. This can be done using heavier materials - massive wooden blocks or metal.
If the space in the hallway of the room allows, then it is advisable to install the hanger on two, or even better, on three support points. In the first case, you will need wide bases so that your attribute does not fall on its side, since placing clothes evenly is problematic. Therefore, whenever possible, you should choose a three-point support.
To prevent the base of the floor hanger from scratching the floor, you will need to use materials as a “sole” that are softer than the floor covering.
Tools and materials
Required Tools
So, here is a list of tools that will be needed to make a floor hanger:
- Phillips (curly) screwdriver;
- self-tapping screws of different lengths and thicknesses;
- sandpaper;
- drill;
- drills (set);
- hacksaw;
- axe.
Set of self-tapping screws
You will also need to stock up on the following materials:
- a dried tree (cherry, sea buckthorn, etc.) or several of these if the hanger is planned to have several support points. You can buy ready-made processed blanks;
- bars (more massive, no less than 60 cm long, optimal cut - 7x7 cm);
- metal wire (for hooks) or ready-made decorative hooks;
- wood glue;
- a piece of rubber (or silicone) no more than 3 mm thick.
Wooden blocks for work
Instructions for making a floor hanger with a cross and hooks
First you need to free the tree trunk from bark, as well as rough twigs. Of course, it may seem that with bark the hanger will look much more natural, but over time it will crumble and debris will be spread throughout all living spaces. In addition, there may be small insects in the bark. And clothes will cling to uneven surfaces.
You can free yourself from the bark with an ax or a massive knife. Once this task is completed, you will need to go over the remaining part several times with sandpaper - first coarse, then fine. After sanding, the surface will be smooth and the likelihood of snagging clothes will be minimized.
The next task is to make the base. As in construction, only that structure will be stable and durable if it is given integrity. Therefore, the base and tripod of the hanger must be one piece.
The hanger base and stand must be one piece
You should not first make a cross and then attach the body of the hanger to it on top - such a structure will very quickly become loose and can fall out of the base under the weight of the clothes.
Here's a rule to follow: the bottom edge of the tripod should be flush (that is, on the same plane) with the base of the base.
Let's move on to measuring the diameter of the barrel. We need it in order to select a block of the appropriate width. If the bars are wider, then you need to cut them lengthwise with a hacksaw to the desired size.
The standard height of a hanger is within 180-200 cm. For them, you need to make a cross with overhangs from 25 to 35 cm. Therefore, we will need 2 bars 60 cm long, which we will cut exactly in the middle to make 4 blanks of 30 cm each.
Now the difficulties begin. Even if you get clever and attach these 4 bars to a round trunk, the structure will be unstable, and after the first fall, due to unevenly hung clothes, it will simply fall apart.
Therefore, we will do the following: put the barrel on the floor and attach the resulting blanks to it on four sides. It will not be possible to connect them in this form, so we will make inserts in the form of triangular wooden elements on bars exactly in the part where the body of the hanger is located. Such “triangles” are attached to the bars using self-tapping screws, and also to the tree trunk - in exactly the same way.
To strengthen the structure, in those places where the “triangles” will be attached to the overhang bars and to the trunk, you must first drill holes with a diameter of 2-3 mm using a drill. less than the diameter of the fastener.
If you simply screw self-tapping screws into wood, there is a possibility of cracks appearing that weaken the structure.
After this procedure is completed, you need to fill the resulting drilled spaces with glue, and only then begin to screw in the screws.
The resulting design of the floor hanger may not be ideal in terms of stability - it often rolls over from one crossbar to another. To correct this drawback, you need to use pieces of rubber that should be glued to bottom part.
In order for the rubber to stick perfectly to the surface of the wood, you need to walk along the surface of the wood with sandpaper and make several scratches in different directions.
The frame is ready, now you need to give the hanger functionality - add hooks for outerwear, which can be remote, that is, located at some distance from the trunk. There is one rule here: the center of gravity of the hanging clothes should not go beyond the crosspiece, otherwise the structure will be unstable and fall.
It doesn’t matter what kind of hooks are used - homemade or decorative, you cannot attach them directly to the trunk, since the floor hanger will quickly become unusable. You can proceed as follows: cut out a square from the existing bars, the length of the sides will be several larger diameter trunk used as the body of the hanger. Before attaching the “square” to the top, you must first attach the hooks to it.
Decorative ones are more suitable because they are made of wire beautiful shape very difficult to achieve. Such hooks are attached to wood, usually using one or two self-tapping screws.
If you have time and some skills in working with wood, then using a chisel you can cut out indentations in the squares attached to the top of the floor hanger in order to subsequently “sink” the base of the hook into them. This is a more aesthetic solution than simply mounting it on screws.
After all the hooks are attached, you need to square wooden element connect with top part trunk This can be done with one or two self-tapping screws using the technology described above.
The final stage of work is to add aesthetics to the resulting floor hanger. First of all, you need to close the lower part - the cross with all the fasteners. For this, it is allowed to use fabric, rattan, wooden or plastic slats. The hanger itself can be painted with a protective layer of paint or varnish - either a natural color or any other, depending on the color range room decoration. The layer must be applied at least 2 times.
Making a suit hanger
Layout of a floor hanger for a suit
The floor hanger for men's suits has a slightly different design and is made of wooden blocks.
It can be done using the following algorithm:
- measure and cut blanks according to a pre-made project;
- carefully process and polish them;
- make mounting holes in the required places;
- assemble the hanger according to the diagram presented below;
- perform final finishing;
- screw roller wheels to the base or glue rubber gaskets.