Bathroom Towel Hooks Using Silverware

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I’ve been wanted to do this project for a long time. Ever since I redid my bathroom in March for $27, I’ve been itching to improve the towel situation.

IMG_20141215_160027514The bathroom doesn’t have a ton of wall space, but we needed to hang at least two large towels on a regular basis (for me + the hubby). Whenever I gave the kids a bath, I got frustrated where to hang the extra towels. Plus, the neat freak in me was straightening these brown towels to be square at least 50 times a day. Don’t you hate that?

So it was safe to say these towel racks were not working for us. I got to work disassembling them and filling in the holes with drywall spackling.

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It’s pink and turns white when it’s dry, how clever!
My idea was to use silverware handles as hooks. I was given extra silverware long ago and wanted this project to be NO cost. I chose forks because I could just attach them through the tines instead of having to figure out how to drill through metal. I bent these forks mostly using my hands and two simple pliers.
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Next I used a long and skinny piece of 1″ thick wood leftover from my end table project and measured it center on the wall, length wise and height wise. I used my stud finder to find the 2×4 studs in the wall, drilling pilot holes through them and my piece of wood to match up. Then I  measured five holes equal distance apart and drilled pilots for the fork hooks to screw into.

Lots and lots o’ pilot holes.
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The next part was painting. I did two layers of white paint (the same paint I used on my faux bathroom wainscoting) on the wood board where the hooks would go. I also painted over my wall patches with teal to hide any trace of my old towel racks.
IMG_20141215_193506291I used skinny screws (there’s not a lot of space between the tines!) to screw in the forks. Skinny, long screws with wide heads would works best, but I used 1/2 inch skinny screws with small heads because that was all I had. I also thought afterwards perhaps nailing the fork down in two places would hold the hook even better. If you try this project yourself, it’s up to you!

 

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IMGP0434My last step was to cover up the tines of the fork because I didn’t love the way it looked. I cut name tags from cardboard, painted them, and wrote on them with a silver paint pen. Then I grabbed my trusty hot glue gun and globbed a huge amount of glue in the center of the name tag, pressing it over the fork tines and the screw that holds the forks in. I feel this step solidified the forks so they are even more sturdy for hooks. At this point I was really please with how the project looked!

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This new towel solution hangs right behind the door to the bathroom, so it’s mostly hidden from site and out of the way. In the below picture, that’s the door to enter on the left. That’s the tub on the right.
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after
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The silverware hooks work perfectly to hang big, heavy bath towels!
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I hope you enjoyed this project creating bathroom towel hooks!
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Published by Melissa Woods

My name is Melissa Woods, homemaker and parent. I am an amateur handy-woman and avid DIY-er. I am an adept painter and deft crafter. I am a finance enthusiast and frugal to the core.

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