Oops

 

A stud can be a hard thing to find, and if you haven't got a stud then you use a plastic anchor, and sometimes those don't work very well. Case in point, the metal shelf and towel rack above the toilet.

You can't tell much in the picture above, but the rack was leaning down. It wasn't level. It wasn't very solidly attached. Oh darn. What to do?

Well, we could attach a piece of wood (painted white) to the wall, screwed to a stud, and then attach the towel rack to that.

But that would look a little weird. I had an idea. What if I covered the piece of wood with wallpaper, and matched the pattern?

So that's what I did. After all, I am the queen of fussy cuts. I can do this. Can you say "Ruler Trick?"

Considering I "winged it" I think I did pretty good. This is the piece of wood attached the wall and notice how you CAN'T see where the screw is. That's because I patched it with another piece of wallpaper. (Nyah, ah, ah!)

Then we attached the little brackets.

It worked like the proverbial CHARM!!