DIY wooden floor hangers for clothes. DIY wooden hanger (35 photos). Made from plywood in the form of a tree
A DIY clothes hanger is a fruitful idea. Theater begins with a hanger; house too. In the sense of spirit, atmosphere, “energy”. The reason is simple: the first thing a guest looks for is where to hang his outerwear. And if the hanger is clearly homemade, but comfortable, stable and durable, the owner is guaranteed a positive reputation.
The second argument for making a hanger with your own hands is prosaic: purchase prices are clearly disproportionate to production costs. Homemade hanger for clothes will save an amount that is quite visible in the budget. It’s not difficult to make, you only need a little material, and waste from repairs will also be used. In most cases, the tool can be used manually.
These factors are especially felt if a floor hanger fits in the hallway. In addition, it can also serve as a dryer if its design is framed, see below, because On such hangers it is convenient to hang clothes on hangers, and the hanger itself moves away from the wall. If you managed to fence off a dressing room in your house, then a floor hanger is the best option. The cost of floor hangers is significantly higher than wall hangers, but there is nothing in the design that would not allow floor hanger on one's own.
On the floor or on the wall?
What has been said is already enough to make a choice, as long as there is enough floor space. However, let’s finally look at what makes a floor-type hallway hanger so attractive:
- Clothes hung on hangers dry faster and do not stretch; The collar and lining do not tear.
- On a hanger approx. wide. 1.5 m will fit a seasonal set of clothes for the whole family, which will save on the closet and space for it.
- A shoe rack is naturally attached to the floor hanger, which simplifies the work of equipping the hallway and saves its space.
- With the correct dimensions of the hanger, neither the wall from clothes nor the clothes against the wall are damaged.
- The mobility of the hanger does not interfere with rearranging furniture; After moving the hanger, there is no need to seal the mounting holes in the wall.
However, floor hangers are different, and not all of them are most suitable for residential premises. For example, for order (from the old Russian “order” - office, office, office) floor lamp hangers, pos. 1-4 in Fig., hanging clothes on hangers is inconvenient. Due to the small support area, they are rolly, especially when loaded with wet winter clothes. To emphasize the functional inferiority of the product, such hangers are called hangers, and they are often sold under this name.
Types of floor hangers
The best option is the same theatrical wardrobe frame hanger, pos. 5. When designed for residential premises, it is supplemented with shelves for hats, shoes and gloves/scarves; possibly with an additional tie rod, pos. 6. Disadvantage – the “legs” of the hanger get tangled under your feet. In an attempt to get rid of it, they came up with hangers - frames on a stand, pos. 7, but generally speaking, they are even more rolls than ordered hangers. Another option is a frame hanger without legs, leaning against the wall; We will remember this one again. There are also folding frame hangers, but they have almost no advantages in everyday life.
If space is generally tight in the hallway, then a wall hanger is still more suitable. Simple wall hanger-sconce, pos. 1 in Fig., is as compact as possible, but no more convenient than an orderly one, except that it won’t fall to one side from the next jacket. Hanger-shelf, pos. 2, will not fall off if attached properly, and hats/caps from it too, but the wall and clothes rub against each other.
Species wall hangers
Wall hanger-panel, pos. 3, saves the wall, but not clothes. Leather items wear out the most on such hangers. Tanners jokingly advise: how can you tell a sheepskin coat made from full-grain leather from one made from reverse leather? The first one, with everyday use of the panel hanger, loses its appearance in 2 winters, and the second - in half a winter. Considering the cost of genuine leather products, this is no good. Therefore, wall hangers for expensive items often provide soft upholstery, pos. 4. As for wall hangers with openwork panels, pos. 5, then in this case its meaning is only decorative: it does not protect either things or the wall.
Floor hangers with chest and banquette
There are also floor hangers-panels with a stand, for example. in the form of a cabinet, chest or chest, pos. 1 in Fig. right. This is not the best option: someone will someday put something on the lid, and the clothes being removed from the hanger will knock it onto the floor. Much more practical are floor hangers-panels with a bench, pos. 2. A flower under the seat is a matter of taste for the owners, if only it survives there, but a shoe rack or a chest for accessories to care for it is the right place in the drawer of the bench.
Clothes and keys
Regarding panel hangers, the amateur craftsman has additional opportunity, namely: to provide such a sidewall on the farthest from front door edge. Perhaps not reaching the bottom, with a bevel or notch. Factory ones don’t do this: the hanger should be designed for clothes to stick out from the side. One sidewall almost does not interfere with this, but it is not known how the hanger will stand for the buyer, and making right and left hangers is expensive.
What does this add-on provide? A place for a key holder, invisible from the threshold. There, on the side, there may be a dressing table or a cabinet, but the main thing is that the owner’s keys will not catch the eye of a casual visitor, and they are in plain sight, as criminologists say, a serious factor in spontaneous illegal actions, without which, i.e. temptation, a visit from a not entirely trustworthy subject would have turned out well for both the hosts and him. You can, of course, make a luxuriously designed key holder with a secret lock, but this is a lot of work and costs for materials. Otherwise, a simple board with hooks will do. Or just hooks screwed to the side of the outside of the storage section.
We will assume that suitable design has already been selected, and let’s get started on how to make a hanger. Preferably wooden: the material is noble, natural, easy to process. Let's not forget other versions; in some cases more convenient. Let's start with floor hangers as the most functional.
Floor-standing
Those who like to make things from the heart, who have milling tool for wood, they can immediately take up a floor frame hanger with legs. Made from fine-grained wood hardwood(oak, beech, hornbeam, walnut, birch), it looks chic, and in width it will take up only 360 mm of floor space.
A suit hanger works well as a prototype, you just need to make it taller and move the trouser bar up so you can hang hangers on it. Instead of a tie rod and handles, you can install a shelf, and a shoe rack is mounted below. Drawings of such a hanger are shown in Fig.:
Drawings of a wooden floor hanger
With the other dimensions indicated, the structural and overall width (sizes 430 and 460 respectively) without compromising strength and stability can be increased by 1-1.4 m, i.e. the hanger will be narrower than family width up to more than 1.8 m. Self-orienting wheels, if full mobility is needed, can be installed without problems.
About hooks and traps
Bags, umbrellas, scarves are also left on the hanger, and a bachelor may also have a skirt with lingerie there. Sometimes life is life. It is also more convenient to hang clothes on hooks for a short time. Therefore, in frame hangers, sometimes slider hooks are put on the main rod (formerly the trouser rod in the figure; height 1360). They or the hangers, depending on the need, are moved to the side en masse. But the sliding hooks under the fingers turn out at the most inopportune moment. In a hanger of this design and similar ones, the problem is solved simply: the main rod is for hangers, and the fixed hooks are attached to the top board.
Pipes and profiles
Original hangers are made from round or profile metal or plastic pipes, see fig. However, despite all the design tricks, their organic defects do not disappear. The same ones that hanged the orderly. But it adds high labor intensity: in order to hide the connecting nodes, you have to really strain both your hands and your head.
Pipe hangers
It is better to make a square base for a floor lamp hanger from pipes. With the same floor area removed, the distance between the support points increases by 1.4 times. If you make the base even heavier, a hanger up to 1.7 m high turns into a full-fledged hanger. 60 mm sewer pipes are most suitable.
A short master class in pictures on making the base of a floor hanger from pipes is shown in the following. rice. Pipe sections are 150-300 mm, depending on how much floor can be given to the hanger. In addition to them, you will need 3 straight tees, 4 right angles and 4 plugs. Connections are made using propylene or PVC glue, depending on the pipe material. Weighting - sand or small crushed stone.
Making the base of a hanger from pipes
One of the comments to original design begins with a question something like this: “Why couldn’t you just solder it?” Judging by the fact that later in the same comment the 90° angles are called bends with an obvious claim to professionalism (plumbing bends are oblique tees), 2-3 more and the same number of exclamation marks suggest themselves in addition to the question mark.
Nevertheless, the author of the product, even if she did not know plumbing terminology, solved the problem quite like an engineer. The hanger doesn't need sealed joints, and a tube of glue will cost much less than renting a soldering iron for propylene. Which you also need to learn how to use, spoiling a lot of the material. For greater reliability, you can reinforce the connections with phosphated (black) self-tapping screws: their heads are not visible on black, and the strength of the hanger will not be reduced.
Note: the top in the original design is also made of pipes, but its design, frankly speaking, is not that... It would be better to drill into the rack inclined holes and insert some strong pins into them using the same glue; wooden, metal.
Simple frame
Scheme of a simple floor-wall hanger made of pipes
A frame hanger made of pipes can be without legs, simply leaning against the wall at an angle. However, its slope must be negative. There should be at least 350 mm between the wall and clothes on hangers. If the frame tilt is positive ( top bar adjacent to the wall), then the lower one will “move away” from the baseboard by 500-600 mm. In a small hallway this is a serious inconvenience. In addition, they will either cling to the bottom crossbar with their feet and it will break the floor, or they will have to fasten it to the floor, and this is really bad: any violation of the flooring is fraught with complex and expensive emergency repairs. Have you ever seen furniture on sale that needs to be screwed to the floor? Unless for special purposes, for example. rack. And then, they also try to make do with fastenings to the walls and, in extreme cases, the ceiling.
Frame hanger diagram with negative slope from pipes is shown in Fig. The materials are the same: straight segments sewer pipes 60 mm, 90 angles and straight tees. Seized usable area gender – zero. Below there can be a shoe rack or a banquette. For fastening to the wall, so as not to drill a lot and do without expensive collet anchors, it is better to take a couple more tees: with their help, the holding beams - guy wires - are attached to the wall with a pair of self-tapping screws in dowels each.
Wall mounted
Simple panel hangers do not require any special disassembly. How to make a wooden wall hanger, see e.g. video.
Video: DIY wall hanger made of wood
Here we remember, firstly, about the sconce hanger. Folding, it can be very useful if a large company has gathered or the kids have returned from the yard.
An example of this kind of design is shown on the right in Fig. However, its creators were clearly guided by the principle: “Consumption is the basis of turnover cash" The outer (folded) side of the flap is inactive and requires a locking mechanism. And a separate hanger for every day.
Compact folding wall hanger
Meanwhile, folding wall hangers have been known since Ancient Egypt. In the climate there, outerwear was worn occasionally, in bad weather, but after wearing it it was necessary to dry it. There was no point in keeping a separate hanger for this in areas where it rains and is cold only once a year, so they came up with one like the one on the right in Fig.
When folded, the compact Egyptian wall hanger was secured with a cypress stick. Now, of course, you can install a ball retainer or just a hook. The main thing is that the hook hooks should be 3/4 of a circle, then nothing will fall off them even with the bar folded back. And without need, the whole hanger looks like just a stick on the wall; You can hang bags, umbrellas, and keys on the hooks.
More about hooks
An original wooden hanger can be made without any metal at all, not counting the fasteners. Do not rush to throw away the New Year's pine or Christmas tree (only the blanks will need to be turned upside down):
Video: original DIY wooden hanger
Such a hanger will look best in a country house, in a timber or frame house. Depending on the interior design – even in a city apartment. It will go well in the bathhouse: touching steamed skin to metal is both unpleasant and, to some extent, even dangerous.
Hangers for the nursery
Probably all children throw away their clothes. There is no need to particularly scold them for this: without experiencing chaos within reasonable limits, you will not get accustomed to order. Who is against it - answer Friday’s question to Robinson Crusoe: “Why doesn’t the devil kill God?”
However, it is necessary to teach children to handle things properly. Only a children's hanger, so as not to cause obvious psychological rejection, should look somewhat disordered. It is also highly desirable that the child associate it with his favorite game or hobby. Examples of “game/hobby” type wall hangers for children’s rooms are given in pos. 1 and 2 fig.
Children's hangers
A universal method of this kind is a tree hanger, pos. 3. In the contour of a tree, as in any fractal structure, order and chaos interact and complement each other, giving rise to a harmonious whole. Just don’t forget to make the wood stronger, e.g. from plywood from 12 mm, and properly, in increments of no more than 250-300 mm, attach to the wall with self-tapping screws from 6 mm in propylene dowels. A tree is meant for climbing.
Floor hangers in a nursery are undesirable for the same reason: well, they will climb anyway and crash. Therefore, if you want a floor hanger for the nursery, you need to make one that you can’t fit on, as can be seen in pos. 4 and 5.
About cutting plywood
In any case, parents are faced with problems that little ones don’t care about yet: material consumption and labor intensity. Drawing a complex contour along a grid on a single sheet of plywood is no longer easy; then you need to cut it out precisely, which is even more difficult. And in the end it turns out that 60% or 80% of the material went to waste, no longer suitable for anything. On the contrary, you need to make a children's tree hanger from waste. Or cut a whole sheet more tightly.
Assembling parts of a wooden hanger from plywood
The method for this has long been known: element-by-element cutting and assembly. If the tree is plywood, for full strength finished product each part is assembled from 2 layers, leaving the corresponding folds and grooves, see fig. Fragments of blanks are assembled using PVA glue, wood glue or “Express” (liquid nails). If the assembly is made of PVA, the fragments must be additionally fastened with small snake nails in increments of 100-150 mm with a distance of 30-40 mm from the edges.
The wooden hanger is assembled using the same adhesives, but now each connection must be secured with wood screws and an envelope. Then the gaps and fastener heads (they need to be recessed during assembly) are rubbed with putty made from sawdust of the same plywood on PVA. Such wood will look solid even without painting, only under varnish.
Note: Just in case, let's remind you - that's it wooden parts Before assembly, any wooden hanger must be sanded with fine sandpaper and treated with a water-polymer emulsion or PVA diluted three to five times with water. After impregnation before further work take a technological break until the part is completely dry (1-3 days, depending on its size).
And one last thing about hooks
In the illustrations above, you most likely noticed the curved wooden hooks and other details of the hangers. It is quite possible to make them at home. In production, dense, fine-grained, defect-free wood or water-resistant birch plywood(BS grade) bent heated with steaming or dry, but for homework these methods are too complicated. Only bamboo is steamed more or less simply: the workpiece is boiled for half an hour or an hour in rapidly boiling water, after which it is bent by hand. In the case of bending according to a template, the workpiece must be quickly tied to it, before it has cooled down, with a wide cotton braid or a strip of natural tarpaulin.
Wood rasp
At home, it is easier to cut blanks of the required configuration from a sheet of plywood (any) or MDF of the required thickness or, twice or four times as much in quantity, from thin sheet material to then gain as much thickness as required. Cut with a finishing allowance of approx. 1 mm. The cut pieces are tightly pulled together in a package in a carpenter's vice or in a mechanic's vice through thick plywood spacers and processed with a wood rasp to size, and then sanded clean. One rasp is enough, with flat and semicircular working surfaces, see fig.
The blanks are assembled into parts using the method described above. End surfaces, if you need to hide the layered structure of plywood, seal it with strips of self-adhesive wood-like film. After this, the part is varnished twice or thrice with acrylic varnish on water based; nitro varnish can damage the self-adhesive. Edge (edge) plastic furniture edge not worth it: you need to accurately select the groove for the edge anchor, which requires milling machine, but on curved surfaces of great curvature and short length, the edge still holds poorly. And parts covered with self-adhesive tape, varnished, and solid wood cannot be immediately distinguished even by a master cabinetmaker.
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The first piece of furniture that a visitor or guest sees when entering an apartment or office is a hanger standing in the hallway. Depending on this, an impression or opinion is formed about the entire room and the owner of the house. The range of equipment designed for storing clothes is very wide, so there are ample opportunities for decorating the interior of the room (corridor, hall and others).
Floor hangers on wheels are very convenient and practical in the interior of an apartment. They can be used for the hallway, in or rooms, on the veranda. Modern designers invent and give such a piece of furniture various shapes and interesting figures.
Advantages of floor clothes hangers on wheels:
What is the name of a clothes hanger on wheels (types and photos)
This is usually what they call it: a hanger on wheels. A little less often you can find another name: wardrobe rack on wheels.
The floor hanger rack on wheels has become a permanent attribute of various clothing stores. Such racks are often used in locker rooms, wardrobes and at sales exhibitions. Clothes are hung on hooks or hangers. The wheels, which are located at the bottom of the base, create additional convenience for easy and quick movement of even a hanger already loaded with clothes.
Depending on what material they are made of, hangers are:
- metal- have great weight and stability. For production, chrome-plated aluminum is used, which can be painted in any color if desired;
Metal hanger on wheels
- forged structures- unique in appearance, serve as an additional decoration for the room. Very practical and convenient;
Forged hanger on wheels
- wooden hangers- have an attractive appearance, durability. Used for manufacturing various breeds tree. Suitable for various styles interior: from classic to fashionable loft and country;
Wooden hanger on wheels
- plastic models- too light in weight, so they can only be used for a small number of things.
Floor hangers on wheels are the most convenient and common type of equipment for locker rooms in schools, offices or apartments.
Clothes hangers on wheels - wooden or metal?
Metal hangers on wheels
Due to the simplicity of the design of metal hangers on wheels, it can be moved mobile around the house. The hanger can be decorated with various decorative elements that will decorate your home interior. If the room is cluttered with other things or details, you can simply move the hanger to another room.
The designs of metal hangers can consist not only of a hanger rack, but also be supplemented with drawers and shelves for various accessories. The shelves can be made of metal, wood or other material.
Photo various models hanger racks on wheels:
Wooden hangers on wheels
The peak of popularity of wooden hangers occurred in the 20th century, but now they are gaining popularity again, they are often used in hallways and other rooms. The advantage is their decorative functions: they fit perfectly into the interior of a room made in both classical and modernist styles.
Modern hangers on wheels made of wood, produced industrially, there are several types. They differ in purpose, size, appearance and type of wood from which they are made:
- Suit hanger- usually of medium height, used for individual use. You can hang your jacket, trousers and other details of a business suit on it. It is intended for one person, so most often these hangers are placed in a bedroom, office or hotel room. The advantage of a hanger is that clothes are wrinkle-free during storage.
The same hanger can be supplemented with a shelf for shoes at the bottom:
The size and height of such a hanger are selected according to the age and height of the child, for example, for small child A low “Baby” hanger is suitable, with convenient drawers at the bottom for books, handbags and toys. Children's hangers are always beautifully designed, different bright colors, and the wheels make it easy to move such a thing to the right place for the baby in the room.
Children's wooden hanger on wheels
The reliability and stability of the children's hanger is ensured by its body design. It will be convenient that you can approach such a hanger from any side. Hangers are made of wood and covered polyurethane varnish to avoid scratches when using it.
For older children and children, stand-up models are used that accommodate more clothes hung on hangers.
Wooden hanger on wheels for girls
There are also small models designed specifically for hanging school uniforms: a dress or trousers on such a hanger will not wrinkle, as they are hung on special crossbars.
Wooden hanger on wheels for school uniform
How to choose a hanger on wheels
IN home interior The hanger is used for outerwear, storing bags, umbrellas and other accessories. It saves space and can be used in a variety of configurations to suit the space.
The main question when planning and purchasing a rolling hanger is its purpose. Depending on this, the apartment owner chooses the desired model. The hanger is also selected to match the interior of the apartment or office:
- If needed hanger for one person, it's better to choose costume version of a wooden hanger. It is better to place such a hanger in the bedroom for individual use or in the office of the office manager.
- For shops and exhibitions will fit better durable metal hanger racks that can withstand a lot of weight (if there are a lot of things) and will be convenient to move around the room as needed.
- To select a hanger in the hallway of an apartment or house need to build on design in the interior. If the interior is made in a classic style, best options there will be a stylish forged hanger or a wooden hanger with decorative ornaments. In the interior of the house with more modern style A metal chrome hanger will do.
- The best option for children's room there will be children's wooden hangers, selected according to the child’s height and decorated in accordance with the interior and its wishes.
DIY clothes hangers on wheels
Wooden homemade hanger. An original solution To decorate the interior of your home, there will be a floor hanger on wheels, made of wood with your own hands. Every home handyman can do one like this.
The design is very simple: width 1 m, height 1.3 m, see photo for plan:
- To work, you need to buy 2 beams measuring 40x40x2000 cm. A shovel handle works well for the top crossbar. The parts are cut according to plan:
- The biggest challenge is making the bottom of the hanger stable. To make the crossbars exactly at an angle of 45 to the bottom, it is better to align the joint using a square. Then you need to screw the slats. The design of the side part is ready:
- The rail should be secured in the same way at the junction of the two sidewalls at the bottom. For strength, all joints can be coated with PVA glue:
- The top crossbar is screwed on with long screws. Wheels are screwed onto the bottom, which can be purchased at hardware store.
- So the hanger on wheels is ready - the dream of some housewives. Its cost was approximately 150 rubles ($5):
DIY pipe hanger on wheels
The hanger is made of metal tubes with a diameter of 22–25 mm. You will also need wheels, screws and a drill.
- For a vertical base, pipes 1.3–1.7 m long (2–3 pcs.) are needed. Horizontal ones are made shorter - 0.7–0.9 m (4–5 pieces) and are used as lower crossbars.
- One of horizontal pipes connects two vertical pipes at the bottom using screws, the remaining ones are attached tightly. So these bottom pipes form the bottom of the hanger.
- The top crossbar is screwed in the same way, holding the entire structure together.
- The entire structure can be placed on wheels; they are attached to the corners of the base.
Watch also the video on how to make a floor hanger with your own hands:
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 a spacious room with a dressing room and 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 that case ideal option will become 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 instructions
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 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.
- Every structural element must be made from 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 parts of the racks are connected to each other using chrome wing nuts, threaded rods or larger washers.
- The racks are held together by chrome plated metal pipes or wooden elements cylindrical 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.
Modern sewing and marketing technologies can provide us with a truly limitless amount of clothing. And all of it needs to be laid out and hung somewhere. For a dry and clean environment, a closed cabinet with shelves and a hanger bar is ideal. However, removed after working day, wet or dusty clothes in the closet are closed. For such cases, there are floor hangers.
They are also good because bulky wardrobe items, when placed on such a hanger, do not come into contact with the wall, as a result of which both the wallpaper and the clothes themselves are not damaged. At the same time, the hanger can be folded, removed, rearranged at any time, which is very important in small apartments.
If you make it yourself from scrap materials, then it also has the following advantages:
- the price is significantly reduced;
- a thrifty owner feels pleasure from the fact that waste from repairs has gone into business;
- the hanger turns into an original, exclusive piece of furniture;
- any beautiful, good thing works for the positive reputation of its author.
Floor hangers: types of materials and designs
If desired, the hanger can be made from any durable material, but the most commonly used are:
- wood, especially fine-grained wood (walnut, birch, beech);
- metal, such as profile trim or reinforcement;
- polypropylene water pipes.
Structurally, floor hangers are divided into several different categories.
- Orderly, it is also a floor lamp hanger, or hanger. It is a vertical bar on a support in the form of a pancake or legs; in the upper part there are hooks for clothes and hats. Takes up minimal space, high-positioned hooks eliminate injury. But such a design easily collapses due to small area supports. Used for placing jackets, raincoats, coats in hallways.
- Frame theater-wardrobe. A long hanger with an arbitrary number of hooks that can be arranged in several rows. Stability is ensured by wide legs, which, however, take up a lot of space. It is rational to place it in wide hallways based on big family and frequent guests.
- Folding frame. A small hanger, half the height of a person, designed to store a suit in an unfolded form. The upper element of the frame is made in the form of a trempel - hangers for a jacket, shirt or blouse, the second element assumes the placement of trousers. Special hooks for ties and belts are available. Looks solid in the bedroom, easily folds and stows on a closet or under the bed.
Attention! Any floor hanger can fall, so if you have small children in the family, it is better to choose a wall-mounted option.
We make a beautiful wooden hanger with our own hands
To make a good hanger for a casual suit, you will need the usual set of tools, which includes, among others, a drill, a screwdriver and a hammer. The work will consist of the following stages.
- We choose a drawing taking into account the size of the clothing and the dimensions of the room.
- We prepare materials. Pine is considered an ideal wood for DIY processing. We purchase pine timber from a hardware store with a reserve, taking into account possible defects in the work.
- We cut out the parts according to the drawing. Where necessary, we achieve symmetry. We process flat parts with a grinder, curved parts with sandpaper.
- Selecting screws for wood suitable color, mark the places for fastening and drill holes, the diameter of which is approximately half the diameter of the screws.
- We assemble the product by tightening the screws by hand.
- We treat with stain and varnish.
- We glue soft strips of felt onto the parts in contact with the floor. If desired, the stands can be equipped with wheels.
Advice. Raise the trouser bar higher, then, if necessary, you can place several hangers with shirts across it.
Original hangers can also be made from:
- a worn-out floor lamp, replacing the lampshade with hooks; the metal rod can be braided with vine or rattan;
- the back of an old chair, separated from the seat along with the back legs;
- a small dry tree mounted on a solid base.
Advice. Hooks cut from the forks of the branches of an unnecessary Christmas tree look original.
Pipe hanger: creative and economical
After repairing a plumbing unit, there is always a lot of scraps left PVC pipes, which are a pity to throw away, but there is nowhere to adapt them. They can make an original floor lamp hanger, especially if you place it in a bathhouse or in a country house.
The main problem with such a hanger is its stability, so the base must be made as heavy as possible. To do this, sand or gravel is poured into the sections of pipes from which the base is made, after which the ends are closed with plugs. The operating procedure is as follows.
- We draw a hanger project and mark all the straight pipes, fittings, splitters and plugs on it. We buy what we need.
- Remove burrs (with sandpaper) and dust (with a rag).
- We stretch the rope through all the parts and tighten it in the workroom or in the yard. We paint with spray paint desired color and leave to dry for two days.
- We assemble the structure using PVC glue.
Aerobatics: floor hanger made of metal
You can create a truly beautiful metal hanger if you master the techniques of cutting and welding this material. However, there is a fairly simple way to make a designer hanger by assembling metal elements with wooden ones.
For work you will need wooden beam round section and several copper plumbing accessories:
- 6 knees;
- 4 tees;
- 4 plugs.
An important condition: the input diameter of the beam must match the diameter of the copper parts. We cut the timber into pieces according to the drawing and tightly place the copper pieces on it.
We are convinced that if you need to add a floor hanger to your home decor, you don’t have to buy one. It is better to purchase materials and create a functional but unique thing with your own hands.
DIY floor hanger: video
A floor hanger is a mandatory attribute of any hallway room, be it an apartment or country house. 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 you will need 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 knots. 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, the cortex may contain small insects. 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 base and stand of the hanger 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 a 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 the lower 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 a square from the existing bars, the length of the sides will be slightly greater than the diameter of the 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, since it is very difficult to achieve a beautiful shape from wire. 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 protective layer paint or varnish - both natural color and any other, depending on 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.
