Coat Rack to Candleholder Upcycle

Just a short and sweet post today to show how I took this old broken coat rack destined for the dumpster and made it into a larger than life candle holder inspired this Pillar Holder by my newest Pottery Barn catalog!

I don’t have the step by step photographed because as you can probably tell in the first pic, I was having some camera difficulties that day! It was super fast though-I just removed the top portion of the candle holder (it was held on with a dowel so it pulled right off!) then used Gorilla Glue to glue on a circular wood piece from the craft store.  Once the glue was dry I spray painted the entire thing with white gloss spray paint.  I chose not to distress it because I wanted to display it with my white IKEA candlesticks.

I love how it turned out and how well it matched my other white candle holders. The best part is the Pottery Barn candle holder cost $239 and mine was less than $10! Yay for upcycling!

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