Sorting out my understairs cloakroom.
I had two rails with 8 of the cheap 'aluminum' hooks spread out and attached to 2 white painted pieces of wood.
I decide change the height of the rails to add another rail of hooks (low for small child to hang her own coat up) and to add more hooks along each piece of wood. Decided to reuse the hooks I had, so bought to match some of the cheap aluminuinm style hooks - looks not that important in a cupboard...
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So got new wood and struggled to cut them to funny and varied angles (found box in under stairs is a bit mad) , paint them, fix them up, then spend ages working out the best distance apart for the hooks mixing the old ones in with the new to blend (I thought) etc.
Get it all fixed up - proud of myself - perfect! then realise the old hooks have (yellowed) white paint smudged on them ...it is all I can see when I look at them - spoiling my good job...
Decide to take them off the rails and paint strip them - only modern paint stripper is 'carp' (see my rant elsewhere on diynot) - so then decide a light sanding would work...except that strips off the aluminum coating and it looks terrrible... so then try and even it up (worse I don't do this on one of them but all 8 ) now they look really bad...and it takes a lot of time ....should have left them alone!
Decide to give up and buy new ones ... only cost a few quid...job done...
Except on the new ones the fixing holes are in a slightly different place... too close to keep the hook in same place - need to move it across a bit but then have holes to fill and (cos the hooks are as close together as possible) two hooks become almost unusable - if I leave them out there was no point increasing the number of hooks ... I could fill the holes and hope the filler holds when I partially screw into it ...or I can replace the wood again and mess about cutting it up and painting it again...
Not sure what to do ....it is only in a cupboard after all....
I had two rails with 8 of the cheap 'aluminum' hooks spread out and attached to 2 white painted pieces of wood.
I decide change the height of the rails to add another rail of hooks (low for small child to hang her own coat up) and to add more hooks along each piece of wood. Decided to reuse the hooks I had, so bought to match some of the cheap aluminuinm style hooks - looks not that important in a cupboard...
)So got new wood and struggled to cut them to funny and varied angles (found box in under stairs is a bit mad) , paint them, fix them up, then spend ages working out the best distance apart for the hooks mixing the old ones in with the new to blend (I thought) etc.
Get it all fixed up - proud of myself - perfect! then realise the old hooks have (yellowed) white paint smudged on them ...it is all I can see when I look at them - spoiling my good job...
Decide to take them off the rails and paint strip them - only modern paint stripper is 'carp' (see my rant elsewhere on diynot) - so then decide a light sanding would work...except that strips off the aluminum coating and it looks terrrible... so then try and even it up (worse I don't do this on one of them but all 8 ) now they look really bad...and it takes a lot of time ....should have left them alone!
Decide to give up and buy new ones ... only cost a few quid...job done...
Except on the new ones the fixing holes are in a slightly different place... too close to keep the hook in same place - need to move it across a bit but then have holes to fill and (cos the hooks are as close together as possible) two hooks become almost unusable - if I leave them out there was no point increasing the number of hooks ... I could fill the holes and hope the filler holds when I partially screw into it ...or I can replace the wood again and mess about cutting it up and painting it again...
Not sure what to do ....it is only in a cupboard after all....
