Floating Copper Coat Rack

A modern, minimal, and easy design for hanging coats and other accessories. Perfect for a home, such as our loft, that is missing a coat closet near the front door. This is also a great addition to a mud room or a unique alternative to a bedroom closet.

All Materials Used

•  Copper tubing size 3/4 inch thickness and type M). I used 120 inches of pipe total
• 2x copper 90 degree slip elbow fittings (size 3/4 inch)
• 2x Copper Tee fittings (size 3/4 inch)
• 2x Copper pipe caps
• 2x ferrules (size 1/16 inch)
• Swaging tool
• Wire rope (size 1/16 inch). I used about 216 inches total for this project, but that will change depending on how high your ceilings are. **Please see below for details
• A manual hand held Pipe cutter
• 2x plain screw hooks or toggle bolt hooks
• Tape measure
• Electric drill
• Copper hangers
• S hooks (used for hanging accessories such as hats)
• Black marker

Tips and Recommendations 

• The amount of wire rope you need depends on how high your ceilings are and where you want the base of the rack to sit from the ground. I used enough wire rope so that the bottom pipe sits about 5 feet from the floor below it. If you want to do the same height, measure the distance from the ceiling to the ground. Subtract 5 feet from that measurement then multiply that number by 2. Lastly, add about 33 inches. That measurement will give you the total amount of wire rope you need for a hanger, similar to the one in the video, that is 32 inches wide and 5 feet from the floor
• I cut the copper pipe into 6 seperate pieces. Two 18 inch pieces, two 12 inch pieces, and two 30 inch pieces. The 18 inches pieces are the top two vertical bars on the sides. The vertical two side pieces below those are the 12 inch pieces. Lastly, the two 30 inch bars go horizontally in the center.
• I did not use any type of glue of adhesive to attach each piece to each fitting. They all stay together perfectly fine without it.
• For the two holes in the ceiling where the hooks go, I placed the holes 31 inches apart from each other and 12 inches away from the wall
• I recommend marking each hole first with a pencil and pre drilling very small test holes to find out if there are any wood studs or just drywall. You will need to know that in order to know which type of hooks to use.
• I used toggle bolt hooks paced into drywall only and my coat hanger can take quite a bit of weight perfectly fine
• A ferrule kit usually comes with two ferrules and two stoppers. A stopper is just an additional piece you can press onto the very edge of each wire after the ferrule (using the swaging tool). To my knowledge, this will give an extra safety stop if the main ferrule is to fail. I did end up putting these on, but I did not show that in the video