1. Making magazine and photo hangers
It’s simple, just hook your magazines onto your coat hangers and hang them on the wall. It’s convenient to keep your magazines flat and it’s a great way to decorate your room.
Your room will definitely become more colorful and vibrant with beautiful artistic images from magazine covers! It’s really convenient, isn’t it?
If you want to decorate the walls of your house with colorful photos, using hangers as photo hangers is a great idea. Just find colorful coat hangers and use wooden clips to clip small photos onto them. Finally, just hang the hangers on the wall.
This method not only helps you decorate your walls more beautifully and quickly, but also allows you to easily change the position of these photos without dirtying or damaging the walls.
2. Making shoe racks
First, fold the two ends of the coat hanger at right angles, making sure to adjust the distance between the two folds to fit your shoes. Do the same with the second coat hanger. Then, insert the two coat hangers into each other and use a fastening string to fix the hooked end of one hanger to the base of the other hanger. Finally, flip the hanger upside down and you have a neat shoe rack.
With just 4 quick steps, you have a rack for your shoes that is both practical and neat.
These are surprising uses of coat hangers that you might not have expected. If you haven’t heard of them yet, take a look and try them out. These uses of coat hangers will definitely help you a lot in life.
3. Making paper towel and kitchen towel holders
In the kitchen, there are always dozens of items that you need to find a place to organize neatly, tidily, and most conveniently for use. Maybe the paper towels and kitchen towels are causing you a headache because you haven’t found a suitable place for them. Then apply this method!
You just need to use a sturdy metal hanger, then cut a point at the bottom of the hanger. After that, thread the core of the roll of paper through it, hang it on the wall, and use it gradually.
This method will make your kitchen more organized and tidy. In addition, you can easily replace the roll of paper when it is used up.
4. Fruit hanger
To turn an old coat hanger into a hanger for fruits like bananas or grapes, follow these steps:
First, hold the head of the hanger and the hanging part, then pull them tightly to form a square. Then hold the hooked end and fold it back to form a standing rack. With just two simple steps, you have made a convenient fruit hanger.
5. Belt and hat hanger
You just need to find an aluminum hanger, bend the bottom part of the hanger into zigzags. And that’s it, you can hang your belt on it. It’s simple to do and quite useful.
For hat hanging, you need to add circular straps to the hanger. Then just hang the hat on these straps. This method helps you save a lot of space and is more convenient than folding them into a closet.
6. Making decorations
You can use coat hangers to make creative and beautiful wall decorations.
The process is very simple: just use colorful ribbons or paint to add color to the hanger. Then, hang them up as unique shapes or attach your favorite decorative items like wind chimes, dreamcatchers, dried branches…
It’s not too complicated, but you can decorate your room in a more vibrant way.
7. Making phone stands
For old hangers, you can use them as stands for your phone.
All you need to do is use pliers to cut the hanger and then bend it to form a stand according to the size of your phone. To understand the process better, you can refer to the instructional video below.
8. Unclogging toilets
Simply use an old coat hanger combined with an empty plastic bottle to create an effective toilet unclogging tool. To make this tool, follow these steps:
First, cut off the top and bottom of the bottle, then hook the coat hanger onto the top of the bottle, fix the two contact parts with tape or glue gun.
Next, hold the remaining end of the hanger and push the bottom of the bottle deep inside the toilet to unclog it. With just two readily available tools and a few simple steps, you can quickly and effectively unclog a clogged toilet in your home.
