Winter means time to cuddle up on the couch with your favorite show and your coziest blanket! We love soft, cuddly throw blankets in our homes, but we pretty much hate when they end up on the floor or messily tossed on the couch. This DIY copper ladder is literally the cutest way to hang up your cozy blankets this season, and better yet, it’s under $100, super easy to make and super cute!
Supplies:
-(6) 20″ pieces of 3/4″ copper pipe
-(14) 8″ pieces of 3/4″ copper pipe
–(12) 3/4″ copper pressure tees
-(4) 3/4″ copper tube caps
First, connect your copper tees to the 20″ pieces of copper. These will act as the “steps” of your ladder. You can reinforce with super glue or epoxy if your joints aren’t nice and tight. No one wants their ladder falling apart. Most of our joints were super tight, so this wasn’t necessary on all joints.
Insert your 8″ pieces and connect them all together to make your ladder shape. You will use seven 8″ pieces on each side of the ladder.
Finally, attach your caps to the ends of your ladder’s legs. Reinforce with super glue or epoxy. Tip—we tried hot glue, but since it is a flexible glue, it didn’t hold as well. So we suggest super glue.
Once everything is nice and tight, stand it up against the wall and hang your favorite blankets! If you’d like, you could even secure it to the wall with hooks. It’s very sturdy, but if you’re afraid your kids or pets (or you! ha!) will knock it over, feel free to hook it to the wall.
Overall, we absolutely love how it turned out! Next to the fireplace is the perfect place to cuddle up with a blanket and a book when it’s cold outside. Copper is such a fun material to work with and the possibilities of building with it are truly endless. By the way, do you guys have any good book recommendations? I need some suggestions! –Mallory & Savannah
this is amazing, i just wonder about rust, did anyone have any issues ?
Just wondering if you were able to buy the pipe in the sizes needed, or if you got longer pieces and cut them down? And if you cut them, using what? Thanks!!
Simple yet classy. It really looks good there behind the chair.
I would like to use this to keep my fabrics accessible. Won’t the copper stain the fabric, or throws, particularly once it starts oxidizing? I looked up how to keep copper from oxidizing, and one suggestion is to spray it with polyurethane.
Has your ladder stained the throws?
Perfect for my small flat and given me the answer to how to resolve another problem too :~) If it works I’ll let you know all about it.
Books, I’m in England so don’t know how easy it might be, but anything/everything by Kate Mosse. Hope for the flowers. Can’t remember the author but 20 years after 1st reading it, it’s a part of me.
Question: did you have to cut the copper pipe to size, or was it already cut that way? Unfortunately I made an unsuccessful Home Depot run because it only came in 2, 5, or 10 ft and the employee said they couldn’t cut the pipe or it would damage it 🙁
Has anyone else attempted and run into this problem? Just wondering what I should do since I have zero power tools and live in a small apartment.
I would also love to know where you got those cute chairs!
Oh my god, I love this so so much! This is definitely on my to-decorate list.
I totally want to make this now! Wish I had better hardware skills. 🙂
Love the project. What a nice way to display throws. I have a couple basic questions. Where do you find copper pipe and copper fittings? Did you have to cut it into those pieces or are those sizes readily available. If you have to cut it, what kind of saw do you need to buy?
I LOVE this! Such an easy DIY.
DEFINITELY a KEEPER!! franki
So fun, I have to try this in my future new flat!
Just finished The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty. It’s so much fun. Love the ladder – thanks!
Oooh! I was recently thinking about doing this with another style of piping, but I really like the copper now.
As for a book recommendation: The Dog Stars. Peter Heller is an amazing story teller.
Wow, this is great! I wanted to have some decor ladder for so long!!
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ani from ani hearts
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Ooooh! I saw one of these on a recent home dec blog post and wondered where they’d got it from. Now you’ve given us a diy version – thankyou!
I am OBSESSED with this DIY! I have a $50 home depot gift card that I’m going to be spending soon to make this!
Paige
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Very pretty, thank you ladies ! Just FYI, I recently found out that you can get rid of the weird red ink on copper pipes using mail polish remover.
Nice Ladder! Like the chair in the first picture as well