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Scrap wood happens.  And for us…usually that means that the boys have some splinter-covered building blocks fo fahree!

Mom of the year award 🙂

But this time, we took a bunch of our scrap wood and decided to make a towel hook for the boys bathroom sink area.  It doesn’t match the existing walls (because the sink area is florescent pink and tan trim) but it gives me an idea of where I want to take this space.  And it’s functional.  Three cheers for hand towels hanging on a hook instead of being tossed on the floor in front of the toilet!  Just say no to the splash zone!

Ok, so this whole idea was born from the need for a towel hook…but I didn’t want to spend more than $10.  That’s tough these days.  I mean a Baconator burger meal costs that much.  Trust me…I know.

So I found these little hooks from the home improvement store for $1.46 each.  I got five of them and decided to use the rest of the supplies I had at home.  It required five hooks, five scraps of 1x6s at various lengths, Rustoleum oil-based paint in Smoke Gray (usually this is for metal but you can get a slick gray wash finish with this), paper towels, a kreg jig mini and screws, and a foam brush.

I think you understand what we need to do first.  Let me give you a clue…

After that incredible DIY feat, I lined up all my pieces where I wanted them to join together.  I wanted this to be fairly balanced.  Then I marked with lines where they overlapped and numbered each piece.

See where those red dots are?  That’s the line up marks.  And the numbers are circled in blue.  The white arrows are where I planned for the Kreg Jig screws.

I am really getting the hang of the Kreg Jig mini.  It’s not hard.  It is really just a guide so that you can predrill with a special drill bit and then screw in the screws with a special screwdriver head.  I don’t have any experience with the big Kreg Jig so don’t ask me those questions…I will just make up an answer 🙂

After the pieces were all drilled and screwed together, this is what it looked like.  Then I used the foam brush to apply one coat of the paint all over and wiped the excess off.  Then I just attached the hooks in the center of each board.

After a little dry time, I staged it in the guest room so that you can see it and keep your retinas.  Trust me – the pink bathroom scorches eyeballs.

It’s cute though right?!  And very easy to make.  I think I might even make a couple as gifts…it would be great for an entire wall in a mud room or laundry room.  In fact, I might even do this in the garage because we always have creek-wet clothes and muddy socks to hang.

p.s.  I added a pin-it button on each photo!  It only took me 72 hours of coding to figure it out but now photos are really easy to add to any Pinterest board.  Just scroll over any picture and a pin-it button will appear in the lower right hand corner.  Click it and pin away!

 

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  2. Will it break your heart if I can’t find the pin button?? So cute! Love it and wanted to pin!

  4. Love this! The gray-wash you chose looks great. I have zero experience with power tools, so I won’t be tackling this project. However, my husband on the other hand……..let’s just say there’s something added to his “honey do” list.

  5. I adore this….how did you attach it? Is there a hidden screw behind a couple of the hooks? Thanks for the great idea!

  6. Great tutorial! I love the final look!

    Just a heads up, the “pin it” button shows up in the upper left hand corner for me!

  11. Did you scroll over it? Did nothing happen? You may have to clear your cookies and refresh your browser. See if that helps first…
    xo – kb

  14. It showed up in the top lefthand corner when I viewed your post at feedly.com, but now that I’m on your website it’s in the bottom right. Great job on that, I bet it was harder than the towel hook project haha!

  15. Did you change anything about the way you upload photos? For about a week none of them come up, only the text…. nothing has changed on my end! I thought at first it was maybe just a photo heavy post, but it continues….

  17. I can see the pin it button on the lower right hand corner in blue, but only when I hover over it. I am using Chrome. Love this project by the way!I’ll admit, the lack of symmetry bothers me a little, but that’s because I am ocd, but the finish is gorgeous! Loving these posts lately.

  18. Dude. You’ve been peeking in my monsters bathroom! We did this last summer (trying to hide the giant holes left by the previous owners poorly anchored towel bar) in our ‘monsters’ (also mom to three sons- one is 16 so the term fits) bathroom. Forewarning… Somehow the mini monster managed to break off one of the hooks. I was worried about them ripping holes in their towels when they yanked them down…but no, yank the hook too . “No one ” did it, of course. (Tip for when they get older- they each have a towel color, and I stencil “1,2,3” on them- so we always know when left their towel on the floor!)

  20. I wanted to but my local target (30 mins away) was all out of the octopus and the key hooks!! Those were the ones I wanted!
    xo kb

  22. You joined them with a double headed screw? Just guessing here because I don’t always read directions… you don’t want to see how many parts I have left over after putting Ikea furniture together.

  24. This is super cute, Katie! Aren’t towel hooks great? We switched to hooks last year and I can’t imagine going back to bars. So. Much. Work. 🙂

    Have a great weekend!

  25. I love this project! Easy but so useful, too. Katie, are your Brookline dining chairs holding up well? We just purchased a new table and I need to find chairs that will hold up to three kids, be affordable, yet still look elegant. Thank you!

  26. Love this! Especially with the wood grain showing through. I would love to see a pic of the back before you hung it to show what the whole Keg Jig (that’s how it reads in my head LOL – Riverdance on a keg anyone?) makes the back look like when it’s all together 🙂

  28. HA! I just had to say good job on the pin-it button on each photo! I sure hope it wasn’t REALLY 72 hours of work! I sure do love having the ability to pin right then and there!

    And I love this towel hook idea! May just put something like this together for my son’s bathroom.

  30. What a cute idea, Katie 🙂 Isn’t it great when you can use stuff that was just lying around? We did something similar in our ‘mudroom’ but used an old chippy cabinet door for the hooks.

    I really need to look into the Kreg jig… I hear such good things about it but it looks intimidating!

  31. Very cute! Do you have pointers on the Kreg Mini? I’ve had a project on the back burner for a long time because I keep messing up my practice pieces! Thanks!

  35. I’ve been corrected! I don’t have the mini – I have the R3! It’s really easy – just don’t lose the stuff that comes in the package because it explains everything.
    xo – kb

  38. They are! We had to tighten the legs once since we first got them but it didn’t take long and they feel really secure.
    xo – kb

  39. Nope. It all goes through Photobucket – so if you don’t see the photos then I always advise making sure your cookies are cleared, refresh your browser and your security settings allow for Photobucket.
    xo – kb

  41. Wow. See, I never would’ve even thought of doing this. We shipped a load of scrap out to the tip about a week ago!

  44. Awww, the blue gap sleeper…..my son came home from the hospital in it! Seeing your boys wearing one warms my heart! You Bowers sure have beautiful children! And you make me want to visit Destin!

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