The coats were too heavy for the sheetrock walls, even though we used these spring-loaded anchors that expand behind the sheetrock.
So it was time to reengineer.
The hardest part of the job was trying to find studs in which to screw the coat rack. As it turns out, the old half bathroom mirror was the problem. I know that makes no sense, but check it out.
If you look at Floorplan Finally, you can see that the right side of the half bath on the ground floor is adjacent to the stairwell to the basement. If you look at It Ain't Pretty you can see what that wall looks like from the bathroom side.
Because of the inset mirror (not pictured), there are no studs in that part of the wall. The mirror was surrounded by wood, but with no wood running behind it.
That's why we had to add the supporting board behind the coat rack itself; so we could span the distance between the distant studs that are available in that wall.
I had to drill a bunch of holes in the wall looking for studs, thinking the studfinder was broken, before I figured out what was going on.
The black thingamabob is our massive, 1980s garage door opener.
Sue was back and forth to IKEA a couple times, and we have more to come this week on weekend home improvements.
We also attended a Mardi Gras zydeco dance party in Cranston on Saturday which doubled as a costume party. Fun times. Great, great people watching.
(When we were house-hunting last year in the spring, the Cranston side of the Providence-Cranston border became our second location of choice due to the prices. Having driven through that part of town late on Saturday night, we are very glad we landed where we did.)
Happy Monday!
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