I’ve been on fix-it patrol lately: mend this, glue that, touch up paint here and there. But the biggest fix-it around here was our bathroom towel bar.
It was new not quite a year and a half ago with our bathroom remodel, and on a number of occasions since then, it has pulled away from the wall. My dad tightened it up a couple of times, but it eventually got wiggly again, and I decided we needed a more permanent solution. The towel bar was just too heavy for the drywall to support it. It needed something stronger to hold it up.
My dad cut a piece of wood to fit between the closet door molding and the corner. I wanted it to stretch the full length of this wall to minimize the lines. Then he pre-drilled some holes for me in both the wood and into the studs and left me to finish the rest on my own.
I gave it three coats of paint in the same white as the rest of the trim (which was matched to the tile). Basically, I just wanted it to blend in and not draw attention to itself. Then I mounted the board to the wall and the towel bar to the wood.
I filled in the screw holes with some painter’s caulk (I’m kind of obsessed with the stuff right now), and when it was dry, did some touch up painting over that. Wood fill might have worked a little better, but I was feeling impatient and didn’t want to make a mess with the sanding wood fill would have required. You don’t really see the indents too much when the towels are hanging up anyway.
It’s so sturdy now, Elise could probably do chin ups on it. Kidding. Please don’t tell her to do that.
