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The Monkey Hook in the Test Lab

Maxwell Ryan
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Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver. Since then he has grown ApartmentTherapy.com, added TheKitchn.com, our home cooking site, and has authored four books on design. He now lives with his daughter in a lovely apartment in Brooklyn.
 publishedJan 18, 2007
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Product:The Monkey Hook picture hanger
Designer:A Monkey & A Marketer
Price:$11.25/30 hooks (10 original, 10 gorilla grade, 10 flush mount)

Rating:Recommend*

Like trying to reinvent the mousetrap,a product comes along every now and then that DOES make a significant improvement in an ancient field.The Monkey Hookis one of them.

An ingenious and simple design, The Monkey Hook uses one rigid piece of wire to replace the need for a hammer, pin and hook. Able to hold 50lbs per hook, these guys can be doubled and even tripled for heavy loads such as mirrors.

The upside of this is that Monkey Hooks are super handy and work really well in drywall. We had no trouble putting one in the wall with our bare hands.

The downside is that they only work on drywall and they seem like overkill if you are hanging a few small pictures.

We say – go buy some of these and have fun using them. But don’t plan on having them totally replace the gloriousOOKspicture hangers that we swear by. A complete toolbox will carry both.

(Re-edited from original post on 2005-07-12)
(Re-edited from original post on 2006-01-26)

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