Quick Master Bath Update
Previously, our master bath had a sort of stupid towel-hanging situation going on. The shower is at the back of the room, but the towels were all the way at the other side, by the door. Imagine having to walk all the way across that cold bathroom floor, soaking wet, to get your big warm fluffy towel. Yuck. Total first world problem, I know, but still it made no sense to have the towels over there. Not to mention the fact that mine was hanging on the only towel rack in the room, which meant that it also became the de facto hand towel. Kinda weird. Jason draped his on a hook on the back of the door, which prevented the door from opening fully.
I’ve been pinning bathroom inspiration for a while now, and it seems like every bathroom I really fall in love with has the towels on hooks instead of racks.
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I love the casual, lived-in feel it gives the room, while still looking put together (it’s not messy “lived-in” like if your wet towel was left on the bed…I never do that…right, Jason?) Okay, I’m totally guilty of leaving my wet towel all over the place. Mostly because I’m far too lazy to fold it and drape it over a towel rod every day. But throwing it up on a hook? Takes less than 2 seconds. That I can handle.
We even had a wall that’s perfect for it, right outside the shower:
Clearly this was meant to be. So last time we were at Lowes I grabbed two brushed nickel towel hooks (in fact, now that I look at it, I think they’re the very same ones from the third inspiration picture above…great minds think alike?), and the other day we finally got around to hanging them up. Oh, and it was my first time using a drill too. I know, I know, I’m all big on this DIY stuff and yet I had never used a drill. Ridiculous. Jason was too busy hovering over me to take a picture of this momentous event, so just imagine me barely touching the trigger so the drill bit spun really slowly and shouting at Jason, “Am I doing this right?! What if I hit something behind the wall with it and the house explodes? Aaahhhh it’s squeaking why is it squeaking?!?”
But I survived. And now I (kinda) know how to use a drill. And, oh yeah, did I mention now we have towel hooks right next to the shower?
No more walking across the entire room shivering and dripping water everywhere to get our towels!
This wall is most definitely nowhere near finished — I plan to add art above the towel hooks, and we might be doing beadboard in this room down the road. But for now we have bigger fish to fry and the master bath is on the backburner, so this is good enough for me.
Anyone else learned to use a new power tool recently?
Hi – I came over here from weddingbee. I’ve never used a drill and am totally scared to but would love to hang hooks in my bathroom – any tips?
Hi Sarah! I was scared to use the drill too, but it’s really not as scary as you think once you actually do it. I started out pushing the trigger really gently so the drill bit barely turned, just until I got the feel for it. The thing that surprised me most was that once you actually got into the wall, the drill kinda does the work for you — it pulls itself in so all you have to do is hold the trigger and push the drill forward a little. Once you don’t feel any more resistance it means you’re through the wall & can let go of the trigger and pull it back out. Just make sure you aren’t drilling into a wall with pipes or A/C vents and you should be good! Don’t be scared! It’s easier than it looks :)
Thanks!
Thanks for the link from weddingbee. How is the foyer/nail situation going?
It’s coming along, finally. Tonight should be the last night of plywood-prying. I’ll have an update about it tomorrow!
I was given a power drill a few years ago on set during Macbeth and was told “Here, make a cauldron” xD I’m just glad nobody died.
I love the look of towels on hooks instead of folded!
Hahah oh brother, I think if that had been me I would have stood around holding it going “ummmm…ummmm…what do I do with this?!”
We actually just did the same thing too! For some reason the builder only put in one towel rod in a really awkward location in the master bath (behind the doors…?!) so we would just drape our towels over the bathtub. I was getting sick of that and found some ORB hooks in a clearance bin at Target, and it was the easiest home improvement project ever. And I love how it looks! The only thing I’m not sure of is if we should’ve mounted the hooks on a board, like the crown molding in your first inspiration pic. But for now I’m so much happier! Where is your shower curtain from? I love it!
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Haha that’s a goofy place to put a towel rod! And what is it with builders only putting one rod in a bathroom…as if only one person is going to use the bathroom or something.
Our shower curtain is from Target. We got it a few years ago but last time we were there, they still had it! They also have it in a different colorway, with more oranges and reds.