House PAINTED!!

The last unpainted room in this house was the upstairs bathroom. We had friends coming over on a Tuesday, and we finished painting this room at about midnight on Monday. If it weren’t for this show offy streak in me, sometimes I wonder if I’d ever get anything done.

We kept it almost exactly the same as our last bathroom, except this time I didn’t shell out for really nice hooks. The only noteworthy part of this process was in hanging the towels.

I recently posted about how I used masking tape to hang a vertical row of pictures, so I thought today I’d show you how I used it to hang a horizontal row of towels.

This way is a little bit trickier because you have to keep the tape level and you don’t have the weight of the roll to do it for you. Masking tape is super flexible, so you have to be careful not to stretch it out of shape.

Start by taping one end how high you want the top of your line to be.

Line the tape up with the bottom of a bubble level, then slide the level along the wall so that only a few inches of level tape is lined up along the bottom, and press more of the tape to the wall. Keep sliding along the wall like this, making the tape level about a foot at a time, until you have your whole space marked off.

To me the real virtue of this method is that I can make as many marks as I want to make sure I get that space divided up properly between the items I need to hang, and then I just pull them all down when I take down the tape. No touching up, no trying to erase pencil marks, just ball them up and throw them away.

Now that I’ve got this trick in my back pocket, I may never need to buy a laser level at all.