Looking for funky hooks and shelves to spruce up a hallway.

December 22, 2007 11:11 PM

I'd like to decorate the hallway in my apartment with funky hooks and shelves like these and these. Like the entire wall. All different. I'm looking for as many funky shelves and hooks as possible.

I have tons of books, and I want to display them in as many different ways as possible. I also want to create a wall of hooks, for things like jackets and raincoats and to spruce up the hallway. I've found hooks shaped like darts and hands...do you know of any more? The hallway cannot be boring! Also, the hallway cannot be expensive (I might plaster of paris my own hands, because 77 dollars is a little pricey....)

posted by melodykramer to home & garden (14 comments total)

Some of these you might DIY:

Finger hooks.
Antler rack.
Very happy wall hook.
Skyline bookshelf.
Mountain range coat rack.
Trophy coat rack.
Someone made a coat rack by screwing the handles of scrub brushes to a board, so their heads served as the hooks, but I can't find it now.
posted by hydrophonic at 11:37 PM on December 22, 2007

Invisible bookshelf.
posted by hydrophonic at 11:43 PM on December 22, 2007 [4 favorites has favorites]

I'm rather fond of these dog butt hooks.
posted by jamaro at 12:04 AM on December 23, 2007

If it's an apartment, you better talk to your landlord first.

And the wall may not be able to support as much weight as you want to attach to it. Do this wrong and the result isn't hooks-in-the-wall, it's hooks-and-wall-on-the-floor. And maybe someone underneath it.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:28 AM on December 23, 2007

Bookcase of books
posted by Marky at 2:34 AM on December 23, 2007

GenericGifts Wall Hooks and Hangers

The Boot Kidz - Coat Hooks, Pegs, Shelves

Some neat ones at both links.
posted by bjgeiger at 5:57 AM on December 23, 2007

I've seen both old glass doorknobs and old-fashioned brass faucets used quite charmingly as coathooks.
posted by spinning jennie at 7:06 AM on December 23, 2007

I have always wanted to make some of these for my house:

Concrete Lightbulb hooks
posted by Asbestos McPinto at 10:36 AM on December 23, 2007

branches
birds
tree
tile
very inexpensive flowers
4 different silhouettes on mirrors
and, ha-ha, shelves.
good luck!
posted by pseudostrabismus at 12:34 PM on December 23, 2007

Advice: don't do the flybrary thing. I've seen one and it ruins every book by warping the shape, especially when the books are packed tightly together.

The "invisible bookshelf" is much better (and looks cooler IMO), in that it only ruins ONE of the books, and that one deliberately.
posted by rokusan at 4:04 PM on December 23, 2007

NotCot Hooks
NotCot Shelf
posted by lannanh at 6:10 PM on December 23, 2007

Ooh, thank you all. The lightbulb ones make me realize that I should probably just plaster of paris a whole bunch of different objects, and screw them into my wall.....
posted by melodykramer at 9:22 PM on December 23, 2007

If it's not too late, some design inspiration
posted by drea at 6:32 AM on December 27, 2007

p.s. a lot of those were on notcot already.
posted by drea at 6:33 AM on December 27, 2007