Hooked on glue

I’ll be honest: I didn’t expect these stick-on metal hooks from 3M to work. I mean, the same adhesive technology that sticks my to-do list to my computer is going to support my heavy winter bubble coat? That seemed pretty impossible to me.

But without them, my clothes hang on the bedposts before ending up on the floor. And who has time to think up a whole new clothes storage system? So I outfitted the backs of the closet and bathroom doors with adhesive hardware from the Forever Classic collection. After some design reconsiderations—the nickel-finished hook really would work better with the bathroom fixtures than the bronze one—I was pleased to find I could remove the replaceable, tacky Command Strips that hold the hooks without leaving any marks on the walls.

So far, the hooks are hanging tough. They hold up to bathroom steam, and the only time one bowed to gravity was when I piled up four different jackets on it this winter—and it even held up for a week, despite my blatant disregard of 3M's “no more than five pounds” guideline. I'm not one for rules, especially from some commanding strip.