Here are some crafts that I have made to suit my storage needs around my house. I have tried to follow the 5-5-5 policy as close as I could, but since sometimes price and time are out of my control, I am sorry in advance if it does not work out for you that way. Best of luck!
Above is a picture of my lovely spare room closet. I recently bought an ironing board and had no space to put it. I was walking in Walmart and found an iron board and iron closet hanger for around $10. Had I not needed bread and milk that day I would have bought it. Sigh, oh Walmart- why must you have everything I need under one roof! Anyways, I looked at it for a while, and thought maybe I could mimic this design with something cheaper- and this is my result:
5 dollars: had all these supplies at home= $0.00
5 items: clippers, a wire bender, measure tape & a wire hanger
5 minutes: It took me at least 10 minutes- just because it is very important to angle the wire correctly in order for the door not to get stuck when you are trying to close it.
It was so long ago that I did this project, that I do not have pictures, but did another one for my bathroom door, using the same steps.
Directions:
Very important to have a clean workspace, I tend to use newspaper because it is easy clean up as well!
1. Cut the hanger part off of your wire hanger and either throw it away or save it for another project. Make sure you have the right type of sheers for cutting wire (especially thick wire) it can ruin you hands and cutters! Also, you will only need the cutters for the hook part of the hanger for this project.
2. Unbend the whole hanger.
3. Figure out how long you want your hooks to be from the top of the door. As a rule of thumb you want your hooks to be the same length if not shorter than your anchor that hangs on the other side of the door. Your hooks will be formed by the two ends that you had just made from cutting. You do need to make sure that the hooks are the same measurement otherwise it looks weird. Now once you have measured them, mark them with a pen or something to remind yourself.
6. Next for the anchor is to get the measurement for the door itself. I did this by eye, see the picture, and then you mark starting from your first marks for you hook going down to the middle, you will do this with each side.
7. Now, one more measurement! You will need to decide how wide apart you want your hooks to be. You will not have much of a leeway for this because again, you need your hooks to be at least the same length if not shorter than your anchor- so I would suggest have your hooks 5 inches or less apart. This is your next marker- on both ends! (an easier way to do this is to just take the last measurement markers you have and move inwards toward to middle of the wire until you reach the 5 inches or so and then mark it.)
8. Now that you have your markings, its time to bend. Lets check, you should have 3 marks on each side, 6 in total on your wire. We are going to go backward, and start from the middle of the wire, to the 2 ends. This is going to get a bit complicated. Starting from your 2 pen marks in the middle of the wire (your 5 inches or less) and bent each side upward, in the end you will have a flat piece of wire with two ends facing a 90-degree angle. (To make perfect 90 degree angles, lay your pliers flat on the table and turn toward the table up to 90 degrees. Now you have a sharp, clean bent wire.) Once you have bent both ends, lay the wire flat on the table. It should look like the drawn picture above.
9. Using your bending pliers and your mark for the height of the anchor, you will bend the wire upwards, just like you did for the 5 inches- so now you should have a 90-degree angle lying flat on the table, and another 90-degree angle perpendicular to the table. Now your wire should look like a U with its ends pointing to the sky (see picture).
10. So far you have your wire bend for the width of the hooks, and the length of the anchor. Now lay the wire end that is pointing upward flat on the table, and move your pliers along so that it stops at your next mark, bend another 90-degree angle. You have now bent your wire so that it will hang on your door! Remember to do this to each side!
The above picture hopefully helps you see how I bent the wire, I kept my pliers on the table at all times, using it as my lever- and them twisted them in the direction I wanted to wire to move.
11. Last thing, now bend hooks out of the ends of your wires, you can bend them as tight or as loose as you need them to satisfy your needs. I bend the tips around so that the ends are round and it would scratch or ruin anything.
