Garage Sale Junk Creation

If you have ever read this blog before you know I obsess over home design blogs and junk.  The two go so beautifully together like chocolate and peanut butter or ice cream and root beer oh now I'm hungry....okay back on task.  Several months ago I saw on one of my favorite blogs Funky Junk Interiors an idea for a headboard revamped into a towel rack.  It was brilliant.  Repurposed, creative and just enough funk factor.  You can see Donna @ Funky Junk Interiors version here.

I have been needing a place for the kids to put their backpacks, coats etc somewhere other than on the bench by the front door.  This became a new project.  The space I wanted to put the hook rack was too small for anything other than a twin bed headboard so I started looking and put my mom (who loves to garage sale as much as me) on the task of finding the headboard.  Within a week she called and said she had found what I was looking for, not a twin headboardbut a large piece of wood that was curvy, heavy and ready to paint.  She wasn't joking this thing is a brute and easily weighs 20 pounds!

However I still needed a bar of hooks and other accessories to pretty it up.  Jackpot last Friday when I found the hooks for a dollar at one yard sale and the numbers at another for $.50 a piece.

I'm not into the shiny brass but that's easy to change with spray paint.

I used a creamy white on the backboard and wood of hooks.  Distressed both pieces and then my favorite part, used Ebony stain in the distressing to age it a little more and it gives it so much character!

Here's where it gets really good.....I used the drill myself for the first time without any "help" from Bob.  He was at work.  I was impatient to put it all together so.....I figured it out.  May seem kind of like a small unimportant detail to most but I felt like I could do anything, at least for a brief moment, when I powered up the drill :)

I wasn't going to post about this until it's hung in the hallway ready for backpacks but because it's so heavy it's going to take special anchors to hang it.  Bob is on it and promises it will be hung this weekend but once again I'm impatient so here's the picture of it all finished sitting below where it will hang.

The only thing I purchased for this project somewhere other than a garage sale were the two outside hooks so here's my project cost breakdown:

Backboard Wood $5.00 (although mom bought it for me and was a sweet momma and just gave it to me!)
Bar of Hooks        $1.00  (garage sale)
Outside Hooks      $5.50  (Menards for $2.58 a piece)
Numbers               $1.50  (garage sale)
All paint and stain I had on hand
GRAND TOTAL  $13.00

So much more fun than an ordinary bar of hooks and no the numbers don't have any significance but if you want to make something up and share it I'll  go with it.