Hair Tool Storage Cabinet

I FINALLY got a second to sit down and write up this post.  Sorry to leave you hanging about what exactly was hidden behind this Bathroom Towel Rack Cabinet door.  Many of you guessed there was a laundry chute inside.  Oh how awesome that would be…I had one growing up in my parents house and though we DID use it for laundry, it was also used by us kids for many other devious purposes…hehe!  But, unfortunately my laundry room is on the opposite end of the house so it would have to be quite the chute to get the laundry to the laundry room and I am sure that more than just a sock might get lost in there.

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So, the next best option for me was to create my very own personal Hair tool Storage Cabinet.  I do love my curling iron…when I actually don’t have my hair in a pony tail *ahem*!  And…I have three girls…enough said!

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So that means I spend a little bit of time doing hair on Sunday mornings and before school (when they cooperate). And even though my girls have THEIR OWN bathroom, they tend to gather in our Master Bathroom. Can any of you relate?

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We simply made a “box” that contained three sides.  We left one side off the back so that we could tuck all the cords behind it to keep them from being seen all strewn about in the cabinet.  We also left a small gap in the back so that the cords could fall down behind the box shelf.

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Then we placed the box into the bottom of the cabinet.  This becomes the base that we screwed the hair tool station onto.

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We ordered this hair organizing station online.

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Directly behind our customized towel rack, was an electrical outlet.  We wanted to be able to utilize this without having the electrical cords showing so we did what any normal person would do…

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We took (and by we…I mean “the hunky Mr. Idea Room”) drilled some holes in the back of the cabinet so that we could cut out the cabinet directly where the electrical outlet was.

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After the 4 “pilot” holes were drilled Mr. Idea Room took his jigsaw and cut out a small rectangle to expose the outlet to the inside of the cabinet.  Then we placed our electrical strip inside so we had plenty of spots for all of our hair appliances.

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I LOVE it!  I love being able to turn on the curling iron or flat iron and let them heat up and not be cluttering up the counter top.  They are hidden AND out of the way.  Just the way this momma likes to have things that she uses on a daily basis. 

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Maybe it will help with the clutter…Haha…Here’s to hoping!

And…to answer your questions…you can find all of the following here:

Update Builder Grade Cabinets with finial feet.

Painting Bathroom cabinets white tutorial.

The yellow rug was painted by me…Painted Rug tutorial!

DIY Trumeau Mirror (not pictured)

Framed in Builder’s Grade Mirror

Original Customized Towel Rack post.

Towels are from Anhropologie.

Hair Appliance Tool Holder purchased here.

 

What do you think? If you had a cabinet like this what would you like to store in there?

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customized towel rack

I am so excited to finally have this customized towel rack finished! This towel rack has been brewing in my head for several months…long before we had repainted and done some updates to our Master Bathroom. 

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The previous owners of our home had updated this Master Bedroom from its original 1980’s state.  They covered almost every wall space in this space with white tile (that has a slight gray undertone to it).  It is not my first choice but hey…at least it wasn’t pink or some other outdated color right?! 

We do not have the time, funds or desire to pull all that tile down and fix it up so we are trying to do our best to work with what we have.  And…in all honesty…there really is nothing wrong with it…and with my new towel rack, I actually don’t mind all the white tile.

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The towel rack was drilled right through the tile and was an ugly combo of gold and silver…which I was not a huge fan of.  I wanted to be able to add some color to the walls too.  So we drew up a design and planned out something that would fit perfectly in our space.

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I was asked to participate in Lowe’s Creative Ideas challenge for the month of February and the challenge was bathrooms.  I was excited to be able to finally be able to get this project started…AND FINISHED!! And since I practically do most of my home improvement shopping at Lowe’s anyways…it was perfect.

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We spent some time browsing the aisles of molding at Lowes and decided to go with a more simple design to fit the overall look of our existing bathroom vanity.  I happened to already have an old cabinet door that I had picked up from Habitat Restore back in the summer with two of my friends Becca and Char.  I used this for the main cabinet in the base of the rack.

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We also made it so that the cabinet door actually swings open.  And I have a fun little surprise inside that I can’t wait to share with you in a later post.

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I am thinking of adding a little bit of a subtle gray pattern to the inside of of the towel rack (the flat area where the towels hang) to give it a little more personality and color but still have not quite decided about that.  For now I will leave it white while I think about that.

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We did not have a lot of room in that spot since the vanity was there and we still needed to be able to allow for two people to stand there and get ready in the mornings.  So we made the towel rack tall and skinny to fit our available space and to still be able to provide some functionality.

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I will be sharing with you soon a tutorial so that if you are interested in building something similar in your home you will be able too.  I am really happy with how it turned out…but am most excited about the little secret it is hiding inside…Smile!! (Good things come to those who wait). 

Thanks to Lowe’s for helping us get motivated to get this project done! You can find Lowe’s Creative Ideas on FB for more great ideas.  They also have a Lowe’s Creative Ideas blog…and you might recognize one or more faces there now…Smile

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Be sure to come back and I will share with you exactly what was used and how we built it.  Want to know how we updated other areas of this bathroom?

Update Builder Grade Cabinets

Painted Rug

DIY Trumeau Mirror

Framed in Builder’s Grade Mirror

 

*Disclosure—Lowes provided me with a gift card to purchase supplies for this towel rack.

However all opinions are mine.

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progress…

Some of you may have noticed I have been a little bit absent here and on the internet the past few weeks. That is because we have been so busy tearing out and putting back together the flooring in the kitchen and our new office.

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I wanted to share a bit of our progress and where we are at right now.  My office is mostly finished.  I am just sharing a little sneak peak today but hopefully plan on getting all the small details finished up here soon so I can share the full reveal with you.  I am loving it so far.

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My cabinets were finally delivered to be installed almost 3 weeks ago.  Then when the guy came to install them he discovered that they were built 3 inches TOO TALL!!!  What?!  He was the one who came out and did the measure (twice). I saw the measurements that he sent in to the cabinet shop…but somewhere the numbers were entered wrong.  So….We had to wait another week for the cabinets to be rebuilt.

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{love the curtains but took them back for some different ones which look much better in there now…}

This was good news to the girls who got to keep their dance studio a week longer.  Why is there a fan in the room?  Well first it was out because the new toilet we installed had an invisible hairline crack in it and was slowly leaking onto our newly laid wood floor….gah! But then it became one of the girls “props” to blow their hair back whilst dancing :)….Who doesn’t need one of those while dancing? Ha Ha

I shared one of my daughters dancing in the “dance studio” here.

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The cabinets finally got put in and I couldn’t be happier with all my storage space.  Here is my old office space.   I had a few other closets in the house where I had some of my sewing supplies and material and my office supplies…not to mention all my craft STUFF!  So it is nice to have it ALL. IN. ONE. SPOT!

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{we threw those pants in the fire last weekend…}

Most of my stuff has now been transferred except for a few loose ends here and there…but we are making progress people!  We put all the moldings back onto the wall and repainted everything.  I have to repaint the ceiling (not my favorite) but we are getting so close!

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And….did I mention the dust?  Yikes!  I knew it was going to be messy…but I never imagined it would be THIS messy…and it is EVERYWHERE!  Maybe that is why I have been sick off and on for the last 6 weeks or so.

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The floors are now finished and I am in LOVE! I will be sharing those later.  I have never been more happy to be on the downhill side of such a huge undertaking.  But I am liking where we are heading.  Hoping to be able to share some more updates soon. 

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