Make your own coat hooks

Creating magnetic coat hooks made of wood

Submitted by: J. Saxen, Zürich, Switzerland

Online since: 09/02/2026

I love adding a personal touch to objects and bringing colour into my home. While looking for my next creative project, I noticed the plain wall hooks in the children's room and office. Since there are many metal surfaces, such as on the wardrobes and drawers, I came up with the idea of making my own magnetic coat hooks. Really colourful, with distinctive shapes and colours. In this magnet project, I will show you how you can make colourful coat hooks yourself.

You will need these materials

To make your own unique coat hooks, you will need the following supplies:

Wooden building blocks in various colours and shapes
Threaded steel insert sleeves/nuts with M5 thread or matching the selected magnet with threaded stud
Electric drill
Screwdriver or washer
Pot magnets with threaded studs, type GTN-25, GTN-32 with rubber caps,
or magnet systems with threaded studs, e.g. GTNG-31 with M5 thread or GTNG-66 with M8 thread

Drill a hole in the decorative element

For unique coat hooks in the children's room, I chose a cute wooden bear. Using a pencil, I marked the spot where I wanted to attach the pot magnet. For simpler decorative elements such as blocks or spheres, I recommend marking the centre. Next, I drilled a hole about 1 cm deep into the wood with the electric drill. However, the depth may vary depending on the threaded insert sleeve you purchased.

Screw in the threaded insert sleeve

The next step was to screw the threaded insert sleeve into the decorative element. In some DIY stores, you will also find this product under the name 'threaded insert nut'. By screwing the threaded insert sleeve into the hole, you create an internal thread into which you can then screw a threaded stud. Since I didn't have a suitable screwdriver handy, I simply used a washer. It fit perfectly into the notch on the sleeve.

My tip: If you need more leverage, you can grip the washer with a pair of flat-nose pliers. This will make it easier to screw in the nut.

Screw in the magnets with threaded stud

After embedding the threaded insert sleeve into the decorative element, I screwed in the pot magnets and magnet systems. And with that, my homemade magnetic coat hook was finished. Using the same method, I also made magnetic coat hooks for the office and wall hooks for the kitchen. In keeping with the kitchen theme, I chose wooden apples as decorative elements for the magnetic hooks. With the colourful wall hooks, I was able to add a touch of colour to the office. For these magnetic coat hooks, I used my children's wooden blocks in various colours.

The finished coat hooks also work well as handles. With the stronger magnets in particular, I was grateful for the extra leverage that made it easier to remove the magnets from the holding surfaces.

Note from the supermagnete team: If you use pot magnets to make coat hooks, we recommend using matching rubber caps. They protect surfaces from scratches and significantly increase the load-bearing capacity of the neodymium magnet in the shear direction by increasing the friction on the surface.