I screwed my £20 IKEA coat rail straight into the hallway plasterboard just to get the coats off the floor: the morning it came away from the wall, I understood which screws had really been holding it
A cheap IKEA coat rail seemed like the perfect solution until it crashed to the floor one Tuesday morning, revealing a hard lesson about hollow walls. Only one of four screws had actually been holding it all along. What that screw taught me changed how I think about every picture frame and shelf in my home.