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wooden clothes rack

I want to upgrade the Mulig clothes rail (white) to give similar features to the wooden one. Ideally I would love a shelf at the bottom but no idea where to start, any ideas out there hackers?

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  1. Go to CL and get second white Mulig. Disassemble it and keep only the bottom horizontal bar.

    Disassemble your Mulig. Take out the bottom horizontal bar.

    Now drill 4 new mounting holes into the feet of your original Mulig (ideally half way from the vertical pole to the vertical section of each foot). Mount _both_ horizontal bars to the new holes. Fill the two old holes with hot glue and put white stickers over them.

    This should keep the structural stability of the unmodified clothes rail and give you a more solid foundation on which you can put a bottom shelf (e.g., cut from pegboard and spray-painted white?).

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  3. The problem for the bottom board will be stability. Ideally you would want to attach it to the foot part of the hanger, for support. If the middle traverse gets in the way you can attach it to the vertical rods on each side with a wardrobe rail support looking like this: Ю – except that you use this in the opposite way from usual, by making the rail support the plank. You could also use those same pieces (×4), if long enough, to affix the plank to the foot of the hanger.

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  4. Some thoughts:

    Can you replace straight tubes with wooden sticks? Leaving corners, and maybe paint them gold or so?

    For the shelf: use two long narrow shelves and join them with two smaller pieces at the ends, just outside of the vertical poles. Let the longer shelves rest on the two horizontal “feet”.

    Or: use a wider shelf and cut a gap in both short ends. Disassemble the rack, place the shelf with the vertical poles in the gaps, thus fixing the shelf in place. Again resting on the feet.

    The horizontal bar is over the shelf in both options.

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