Make a handy coat and hat rack for your entrance hall with recycled wood and plumbing pipes.

Shopping List

• four 50mm castors
• two packs of 6 x 40mm chipboard screws
• eight 12mm x 40mm nuts and bolts
• 15mm galvanised plumbing pipes:
  • - three 1 000mm lengths
  • - six 150mm lengths
• >4 elbows
• 4 T-pieces
• 2 stoppers
• 4 flanges
• 80-grit sandpaper

Cutting List

• 100 x 20mm pallet planks cut to:
  • thirteen 1 400mm lengths (top, bottom and back)
  • eight 480mm lengths (crosspieces)
  • seventeen 260mm lengths (spacers and sides)

Tools

• drill and 3mm drill bit
• 12mm spade bit
• 19mm spanners
• jigsaw
• long timber clamp

TIP
If you don’t like raw wood, brighten up the box base with paint. Paint it all one colour or give it a weathered look with two or three coats in different colours, sanding the top layer off in places.

Words: Deon de Goede, Home
Images: Francois Oberholster