I recently finished this little project and hung it with a long aluminum French cleat. The wood is from my mother’s 100 plus year old family barn back in Illinois. Still has some red tint paint deep in the grain.
I paired it with ‘20s era coat hooks that I bought at a little antique store outside Armidale, New South Wales about 20 yrs ago. The key hooks are part of old window locks. Those came off widows we salvaged from a 1900s houseboat in Lakeport, CA. That houseboat was from my wife’s family heritage. It spent many years pulled behind a lake dredging barge and that was the family business on the lake. When they retired, they pulled the boat up on land, set it on a brick foundation and voila! A house… It was added to over the years with my Wife’s Aunt living there but, finally it needed to be removed.. We have all of the original houseboat windows, small hand made closet doors and the big bilge hatch. All made out of redwood..
A bit off the TV tangent but, related and wanted to show it off.
