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The starting point in creating wall coat racks is to choose the location that you hope to place the wall mounted coat rack. The shape of the wall mounted coat rack and the amount of wood pegs that are required for your project. The next step in producing your wall mounted coat rack is to choose which species of lumber and shade you need to match your interior decorations.
Once the decision has been concluded as to the species of wood. We putting together Oak, Cherry and Maple wall mounted coat racks. You will need to choose a satin nickel hook design or a peg design. You can more often than not collect all the supplies you need desire at a local home depot store each has a good selection of hooks and Shaker pegs and different types of lumber. If you are determine on exotic species of lumber such as Ebony you may have to order it online.
It will be necessary to sand your wall mounted coat rack usually down to 150 grit, sandpaper this will leave a scratch free piece of wood rub on the stain on. Whether it be solid Ebony or a brass hook coat rack that you are creating .
I prefer to use an oil base wiping stain such as created by Minwax. Be positive that your wall coat rack is dust free.
Decide the stain you want, be sure to mix the stain thoroughly. (hint: you may test the stain on a scrap hunk of wood) Freely rub on on the stain I more often than not use a old t shirts for this permit the stain be absorbed for 10 minutes and clean off, if you desire a more intense color reapply and rub the color in.
When the stain has dried you can put on a clear top coat. We finish our wall coat racks with a mid sheen lacquer that is sprayed on you may use polyurethane if you desire. It is more often than not most efficient to put on 3 coats you might wish to to sand with 300 in-between applications to dispose of any imperfections. After the final coat wet sand with 300 then use a burgundy scotch bright pad and some Johnson's wax to rub your wood coat rack to a gloss finish.
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