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Make your own Copper Hangers

The Mad House is not known for getting its hands dirty. It doesn’t really tangle with DIY (or tents but that is another story). The Mad House is more a a sort of ASETMIFY (ask someone else to make if for you kind of girl).

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But then this email fell into my inbox and I thought, well I am in all honestly probably never going to make this. But some of you might. Because they are quite cool. And what with it being Sunday (unless you are reading this tomorrow, or next week) it’s a DIY kind of day. Or so I have always been led to believe.

As it turns out I have just replaced all my hangers when I fell over a bargain in TK Maxx the other day. I now have uniform rows of black velveteen flat hangers. Flat is crucial. Wardrobe was practically empty when I took out all the old mismatched wooden ones. It was nearly a disaster. There was room for tumbleweed. I have had to return to TK Maxx to buy more clothes to put on said hangers.

The point being, for yes there is a point to that, is that I don’t see you making 50 matching copper hangers for your clothes. BUT, but, I say, they would be great in the hall for guest coats. Or even your own coats, if you are disciplined and have only about five or six. You could even make a matching copper rail to hang them on.

Basically you need one metre of 15mm copper piping per hanger. And it comes in lengths of 3m for £9.97 a piece. How many you decide to have is between you and your bank account.

You will also need (and if you can borrow any of the bits it might be a good idea otherwise by the time you’ve invested you’ll need to open a shop on Etsy to sell all the hangers you’ll need to make to justify the cost of the equipment):

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Mind you, if you start now you could make three for everyone for Christmas…

The instructions are as follows:

Step 1. Measure 100cm of pipe and cut to size using pipe cutter.

Step 2. Using pipe bender, bend a ‘hook’ for the hanger. Do the same at

each ‘shoulder’ leaving space to join the pipe at the ‘neck’ of the hanger.

Step 3. Neatly solder the end of the pipe to the ‘neck’, where the join is.

And there you go. Seemples. Do let me know if you decide to have a go.

 

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

2 Comments

  1. Oh, I’m definitely going to have to do at least a couple to hang on the coat tree in the entry! I was already planning on making copper pipe railings and S-hooks in my kitchen for hanging utensils and pots/pans; plus a copper circular towel holder and a bathroom tissue dispenser for the powder room.

    Thanks so much for sharing this tutorial!!

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