entry way

A while ago I saw this hanging rack on Pinterest.

I am totally in love with antique-y shabby chic, so I loved this idea for my teeny tiny entry way. (I mean reeeeeally tiny entryway.) I didn't have any old barn doors on hand, (danget danget danget!) but I did have some old pieces of fence leftover from fencing in our back yard. They had been left outside for over a year, exposed to the elements. Which was perfect, since after a year outside, my pieces of fence looked almost legit antique...

So after a while of fiddling around with some ideas in my head, I came up with the idea of nailing the "old" piece of fence onto the wall of my entry way. With some muscle (aka my man, Jeremy), we got this thing all rigged up. I originally had wanted the fence piece to go all the way to the ground. But my smarter half (again, aka my man, Jeremy) pointed out that it would be easier to clean the entry way if it was lifted off the ground a bit, to sweep under it. Genius. The other thing I wanted to do was to collect old hooks, in various designs, to nail to the fence piece as coat hooks. But you know what, it works out that we hang the coats OVER the points of the fence. So I have saved my hooks for another day, and another project...

My entry way is so small, I literally cannot stand in front of the fence rack and take a picture of it. Someday I will have a larger one, but for now, I'm in love!