Ok…I know!
PVC Pipes and Princess Dresses…it’s a weird project…really weird.
But I don’t care. And my girls are crazy about it so it’s what I’m sharing today.
Here’s the story:
Awhile back Deborah from over at Sew Much To Give posted some hangers that she had made for her granddaughters princess dresses. Then she hung those princess dresses on a low bar so the girls had easy access to the dresses. It was brilliant. And I wanted to do the same thing
However, I didn’t have a great area or nook to place a low hanging bar. BUT, I did have some PVC pipe (I always have some PVC pipe.) And the in less than 20 minutes I had myself a PVC Princess dress rack.
Sure it’s a little ghetto, but like I said earlier, I don’t care and my girls love it.
Now instead of all their dresses in a pile in a toy chest they are hung up nice and neat right where they can see and get to them. (And we’ve had this rack now for long enough for the newness to wear off and they are still keeping their dresses hung up and tidy. It’s pretty great.)
Plus, we literally have had at least one girl in a dress at all times since we built the thing.
(Which is fine by me. These dresses were bought to be played in…not kept tucked away…at some point this might get annoying but I doubt I’ll get tired of it anytime soon. Play away I say! Play, before you grow up and I’m wishing we had spent more time frivolously dressing up.)
If you want to make a PVC Princess Dress Rack all you’ll need are:
*8, 90 degree elbow joints
*4 T joints
*4 pieces of pipe cut 38 inches (for the vertical bars)
*2 pieces of pipe cut at 13 inches (for stabilizer bars on at the bottom of your vertical bars)
*2 pieces of pipe cut at 2 inches (to put with the other stabilizer bar at the bottom of your vertical bars)
*2 pieces of pipe cut at 2 inches (to put with the other stabilizer bar at the bottom of your vertical bars)
*4 pieces cut at 7 and 1/2 inches (for stabilizer bars at the top of your vertical bars…and a place to attach the horizontal bar to)
*2 pieces of pipe cut at 50 inches (one for the top horizontal bar to hang your dresses on and one for the bottom to help stabilize your rack)
One you have all your pieces cut…just stick them all together like giant tinker toys!
(The top photograph shows best how all the pieces fit together and it really is easy.)
(The top photograph shows best how all the pieces fit together and it really is easy.)
Sure, it’s not the fanciest princess dress display in town but it was fairly cheap, easy to make, and it does the trick. And it makes my girls happy. What more could I ask from 20 minutes worth of work?
-liZ
NOTE: You don’t need to make your horizontal bars a full 50 inches wide…we have an excessive amount of princess dresses here at our house. Grace is on a quest to collect every princess dress under the sun and I wanted to give her enough room to be able to hang up her dresses by herself without it being too crowded.
PS—Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow—we have a little princess project that we are freaking out about and FINALLY get to share…and WE CAN’T WAIT!!!!!Linked HERE
Great idea! ~Major Moma
oh yeah–that is alot of princess dresses! I loved our first playroom for our girls. We had managed to hang our collection of dresses on a simple white wooden four hook peg rack (Lowes). I also tucked a full length mirror in the corner for the dress up station. The collection of hats and shoes went into a metal barrel (Lowes) that I had painted white. Such fun times and what combinations of outfits we had! My favorite was a princess dress, knee high Pooh bear socks, and Ariel princess heels 🙂
Great idea, love it!
such a great portable idea!!!! love that you shared with us! 🙂
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Very well said. These tips are really amazing. I appreciate it for sharing them.
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What diameter of PVC pipe did you use?
I would also like to know what diameter of pipe you used, this looks like a great project!