Backpack rack/hall tree thing

Our kids come through the door after a long day of school and their packs and shoes either overwhelm our small laundry room or randomly fall from their little bodies like leaves from a tree, if that tree was able to walk around and randomly drop things all through the house.

We want to change that:

hall tree, click for full size

We didn’t have a spot that screamed out for our hall tree, but we felt like we could carve out some space by the kitchen table.  It is a central location and has a relatively open wall:

We built the thing piecewise, sort of mocking it up as we went along:

and pre-painted where we could.

bench

bench prep

 

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