Anyone can screw commercially made hooks into a wall, but why go for the mundane when you can make a statement with heirloom silver serving spoons bent into a curve to hold your coats? This project is perfectly suited for a hanging coat repository attached to the ceiling. Welding experience would be best, but you can take your tray and utensils to a welder and have her do it inexpensively.
Instructions
1. Polish away oxidization from the serving tray and heavy silver serving utensils so that they sparkle like new.
2. Wrap an old towel around the shank of the utensils, and use heavy pliers to bend the serving utensils into hooks. Use smaller pliers to bend tines of forks so that they are rounded and won't damage coats. Position them so that they will hang correctly from the raised edges of your serving tray.
3. Determine where the utensils will be placed on the tray. Drill holes in the handles of the utensils. Turn the tray upside down and drill coordinating holes in the raised edges through which you will bolt each serving piece. Be aware of balance and weight of each piece as you decide where each utensil will go.
4. Determine how far from the ceiling this tray hanger will be. Use a stud finder to locate the spot in the ceiling in which to place your eye hook. Divide the metal chain into four sections. Cut them to fit and weld each end to the four corners of the bottom of the tray. If you don't have welding capability, find a welder who will do the job quickly. Gather the ends into the circular ring and hang them on the eye hook.
5. To make sure that your tray and utensil coat hook will counterbalance when you have coats on it, hang plants from the hooks that will allow it to be decorative as well as functional art. Achieve absolute stability with this hanging coat hook by using rods the length of the chains. They can be welded the same as the chains and the ends drilled to fit the circular ring.
Tags: that they, circular ring, coat hook, hanging coat, pliers bend, raised edges, serving tray
