you can just use... mine are old... so like iliterally just found this out in my backyard it is one of our old fenceboards when we had a wooden fence but you know if you don't have one you couldjust steal it from your neighbor dave. sorry, dave. you need paint brushes, iused white paint and black paint -- acrylic paint -- yes -- it's important, a blackpermanent marker, you need some way to cut out your letters (and you're gonna see inthe video that i didn't actually use this because it is so dull), you will need glue. i founda thing a sign font thing that i liked on the internet and i use blockposters, which is free. awesome! love it! use it all the time!and then print it off my stencil size
letters and i do show you in the videohow to do that so we also need sandpaper cuz you're gonna smooth down that wood.you're gonna have to have a level for hanging it, so we're going all the wayfrom start to finish. you need a drill, or a cordless drill, youcould use a screwdriver if you wanted to but uh, and then a drill bit. you're gonnaneed some screws and then a way to cut the board, i'm just gonna tell you thetruth right now i did not use this jigsaw you can, you can use a handsaw ifthat's what you have i have a chop saw. i love my chop saw. i'm not sure that's theright term for it, that's what i call it. it's like a nickname. so anyway, and then youalso have to have these little walmart hooks. i
don't have any leftto show you, so, but you will have to have those. okay so that is what you're gonnaneed to take this old piece of wood and turn it into the cutest coat rack everfor like less than $15, like you could not buy this at hobby lobby forless than $40, like unless maybe you get a really good sell and have a coupon, butwe're gonna take a piece of junk and make it something awesome! okay, so now that we have all of ourstuff we're going to get started. these are my block poster prints and what i'mdoing here is cutting off one of the solid white edges. they both, both pieceshave solid white edges, then i just run a
strip of glue along this the white strip(that i left) this is how i'm going to connect them. i'm gonna line up my letters right here,like yeah, and you kind of can move it around a little bit. i've used this blockposters, i have made ginormous black-and-white pictures of my childrenwith this. i've used it for for bridal showers. it's just amazing. okay, so nowit's all together i've got my giant letters i'm gonna take a sharp knife anda cutting board and i'm just gonna cut around the letters as carefully as i can.yeah my exacto knife was extremely dull too many children using it. anyway so i'mjust gonna trace around here with my sharp knife, just do my best to get thatget it cut out and yeah, so once it's cut
out i just go back and kind of push itout and i got to cut out the letter the pieces from in-between the e's and allof that. this is it kind of just laid on my board which i haven't done anythingwith. i actually went and cut my board i didn't show you that i'm sorry.then i used the one edge the one fence edge and i traced the corners,copied them, and cut them using my saw so that has these really neat corners. usingthe sandpaper, just kind of to rough up the board and show the wood grain it's alot prettier and then i also take the sandpaper, i'm gonna take the sandpaper,and i'm gonna just round the edges those cut edges just a little bit because itmakes them look a little more like
that's worn. what i'm doing here, this islike a watered down black paint and i'm aging those corners that i cut because idon't want that bright fresh wood on my aged sign and then this is my white andblack mixed together i made a gray and added water and i'm kind of whitewashingthe board it pulls the grain out a little bit makes it look really good. soi've got my paper letters and i run us just like a strip of glue alongthe back of them and glue them down and then i trace around them and then tookthem off. so you can choose to glue them down or just trace around them if you'regood at that and then right here i'm adding my little, my little curlicues.actually i'm not adding them my
daughter's doing this part because she'smuch better at it than me. yeah they're beautiful, she's much better at freehanding stuff than i am. here i'm just going back with that black permanentmarker we had and i'm tracing around the letters it gives them it makes them kindof pop out from the board the white was kind of blending in with that gray paintand not giving it the same definition i that i wanted it to have and now for thegreat reveal and yeah so you're gonna see that i skipped i didn't show youevery little bit but we'll go over in the reveal i'll tell you what you needto do. this is actually the finished coat rack that i have. my house is very full,like, i am the crazy mom of nine kids and
then there's my husband and we havecoats purses everywhere so it was driving me crazy.this is the project that we were working on this is the final result i'mgonna admit i did skip parts of it, did not show you everything, i'm sorry i'mnot very good at this yet, at the whole video thingy. okay so this is the drillbit, you have to drill these holes, it is crucial that you pre-drill the holes, ifyou do not this old wood will just split and completely destroy all yourbeautiful work so make sure you drill these holes whereyou're gonna put this screw in, okay so you look down here i use longer screwson this board but i'm probably gonna go
back in age on my gray paint but i usethe longer screws because this is gonna hold my coat. so these are the hooks i wastalking about that i did not show you in the first that you've got to have tomake it a coat hanger, now you could just have a sign without the coat hanger andit's still super super, super cute. anyway anyways so, thelevel, i used the level to hang the sign. my kids were trying to tell me that itwasn't like straight and stuff but it was i used to level. my sign, my wood isold so there's a little piece missing here. it gives it, i think, a really cool look,but it makes it look a little not level, so it drives them crazy anyway.so now all of these coats are on the
back of my couch, i can hang them socutely behind my door, no more piling them on the back of the couch, instead they are hung onwhat was a piece of junk in my backyard, now is a piece of artwork hanging on mywall, helping me organize my crazy chaotic life. thank you!
