Black & Walnut Metal Hall Tree Coat & Hat Rack

This hat rack looks perfect in my living room--the main bar structure is black with dark-brown wooden "buds" at the ends--very Bohemian with a funky "natural" touch to it. It's fairly compact because the bars don't stick out very far, so it's able to fit into a somewhat tight corner, even with hats and scarves on it.

My sole complaint was that the instruction sheet for its assembly is HORRENDOUS. I mean...the thing should be fairly straight forward! You should just screw in all the rods together and voila! Hat rack. But there's, like, this thin metal rod that has to go through the bottom and then it's very difficult to get it to meet up with the first "branch" rod because the hole is a little too big and the item they provide to stabilize it doesn't really stabilize it until the whole thing is constructed, so you need someone to basically screw it in from the bottom while someone else holds it up. And the flat bottom piece comes in two pieces for absolutely no discernible reason whatsoever. So, it's like, you assume there's a reason they made it two separate pieces, as though you were going to have to attach something to the rod and THEN put the two pieces together, but no, and the instruction sheet doesn't have any words on it, so there's nothing directing you to do A, then B, THEN C...it's just a picture that shows "this goes in this, which goes in this." It also doesn't mention that assembling it from underneath is the easiest way to get all the rods to fit together.

Review By. L. Boswell