Hey there! We hope you all had a wonderful Easter with your families! We had to move our annual Easter egg hunt indoors because we were hit with flash floods all day but that didn’t put a damper on our hunt! We even got a very forced picture of the youngest generation in the family! 17 little munchkins hunting for eggs in one house….you can imagine how crazy that was;)
Amidst the craziness, I managed to squeeze in a quick project that I have actually been needing badly!
We don’t have a spot in our master bath for hand towels and I don’t like having them lay on the counter. They don’t dry well and they just look so cute hanging;) I saw this as an opportunity to shanty something up and here’s how I made two for $10!
I started with a 1×4 furring strip (about $1.50 at your local hardware store). If you have scraps that’s great and it will save you a little dough. I cut 8 pieces at 8.5″.
I used my pal Kreg to attach the pieces together. If you don’t have one, you can nail 1×2’s from the back but they will sit further out from the wall.
Just a pic of the pocket holes.
After I attached the boards together (4 boards each) I sanded them down on the edges and the front.
I then followed up with one coat of Rust-Oleum Dark Walnut stain🙂
I chose these little silver hooks that I purchased at Lowe’s for about $3.50 each. I attached them at the top of the second board from the bottom.
Now for a little fun:)
I have this Waverly fabric left over, from my master bedroom, that I love! I decided to tie it into my bathroom with a few flat-rolled rosettes. You can click HERE for the tutorial:)
I just hot glued them onto each board and added a couple of hand towels:)
This project will take you about an hour and cost you about $10 for 2! That’s my kind of project:) If you love it, I would LOVE pins below:) Thanks so much and have a great week! ~Ashley
How did you attach them to the wall? Mine turned out great, but not sure how to hang them.
My pic. Though it will not rotate
Thank you so much for this. I was looking for something to hang my hand towels that I could build myself. I’m not so “crafty” so my flower did not come out perfect and I decided to do only one but it still looks awesome! Thanks!!
Love these! Also, can you tell me the color of your bathroom? Obsessed!
Thank you, Toni! It’s actually a color match to some
fabric I had. I don’t have the code anymore 🙁
Creative and useful project! Love it and thanks for sharing, I’m going to try to make these but a little different due to supplies so hopefully they’ll turn out.
i love this!!! I finally got the hubby to go with me and guide me through Home Depot and Lowes!! it was as exciting as me been in a MAC makeup store!! I am actually working on 2 of your projects now, the towel holders and the Ipad Display!! thank you so much for this ideas i never knew i could use this as an outlet for me!
I have a pocket hole jig and am wondering what length screws you used? Silly question and I assume 1″ but thought I’d ask anyways!
Going to makes these!! Love them!!
Do you think this would be strong enough to hold regular towels?
✨✨?????? I used the plans at www. WoodworkPlans.info to build mine – I highly recommend you visit that website and check their plans out too. They are detailed and super easy to read and understand unlike several others I found online. The amount of plans there is mind-boggling… there’s like 16,000 plans or something like that for tons of different projects. Definitely enough to keep me busy with projects for many more years to come haha ✨✨✨
?? Go to www. WoodworkPlans.info – click the pink link above for some more plans! Best of luck on your building adventures! ???
This may be random, but I’m looking for a paint color for my master bathroom, and I love that color…do you remember which paint color that is?!
Can’t wait to do this project to hold my towels! 🙂
Love love!! Do you think gorilla wood glue would be strong enough to hold the pieces together?? Don’t have a kreg and really don’t want it sitting off the wall.
I’ve tried doing just a wall hanging with the furring strips using gorilla glue and it didn’t hold up. We went back and stapled a super thin layer of wood going straight down the back to give it more stablity.
Can you tell me what size kreg pocket screws you used? One inch course? Cannot wait to make these! Thank you.
Yes I used 1″ course:))
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hey! I love that vase….where is it from?? I might just have to fancy up my towel holders now!