Thread: need idea's on broom coral?

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Well I have some what of an idea of what I want.
A broom parking Lot!
Now I have a sign that says broom parking. ( not finished yet)
I have a Parking meter for witch brooms ( looks pretty cool)
I am finishing up on making a few custom broom.

I have a prop that I got from Spirit called a floating broomstick. it crawls around on the floor bumping into things. then turns in a different direction until it bumps into something else. So I need the area on the floor to be incircled?? or fenced in, so the the little guy won't get away. Floating Witch's Broomstick in Decorations New Decor for 2008
My problem is how should i have the rest of the brooms parked?

I've never seen any kind of a parking lot for brooms. I will watch some harry potters to see if I can get any idea's but I know hundreds of eye are better then two. now remember the brooms can't be on the ground with in the area of the floating broom . I will not be standing by this thing so I can't have the brooms knocking into one another. I want to keep this area as small as possible (HHAAAA!)
I basicly work with PVC pipe, foam board, dowl rods, I am so tired from starting to decorate, I do desperatly need all of your help on this one.

Please post ideas, drawing, anything!!!!

The first thing I thought of was to have the brooms roped to wood beam like horses, but floating. So if you could get the broom to look like it was hovering but tied up. Maybe clear fishing line or something?

That might simplify things. a hores tie up. which would be easy to make. put some strong wire thru some rope, tie one end to cross post. the other to the broom. but what wire would hold the weight of a 1- 5 # broom? HHHHMMMMMMM!!!! any body got any idea's on that? Great idea DT. I will wirl is around in my head for a while. Thanks

That floating broom from Spirit is really cool. It looks like someone attached a broom to a Roomba. hah hah.

For the broom tie up, that's a neat idea. I wonder if you could attach brooms to it with say...metal half T's. I am not sure what they're called...the things that hold shelves up on walls, but smaller and just the T part, so you couldn't see them.

Looks like an L but sideways so you can attach the brooms. The you wouldn't have to mess with fishing line or anything.

On the other hand...my idea doesn't give the illusion of floating nearly as well as the fishing line thing does because the brooms would move around in that case, which would be neat.

I thought about suggesting a support structure for the brooms, but didn't know how to work out the logistics of making it stand without falling over, not being visible, etc, etc.

You can get fishing line that will easily support that weight. I made a 'cage' last year and strung it up (Put one staple in my ceiling to tie it to) and the cage is probably 5-8 pounds. Just depends on the line (should say on the package).