It's not a problem... it's a project begging to be discovered!

I recently fell in love with a new blog called Remodelaholic.



I'm pretty sure that is what I am as well :)

I have also found a lot of inspiration at my good friend PJ's blog. She's kinda amazing. Totally.

Anywho, at Remodelaholics, one of their recent posts was an effort to come up with a better way to organize little girl hair clippies and jewelry without having to be crammed into some ugly plastic bins. You can make it a part of you decor as well as functional. I made me think of the bathroom hair organizer I concocted when we moved.

The best and worst thing about the house in Great Lakes was all the storage. When we first moved in, we did not have nearly enough stuff to fill it all up. We rapidly began filling it. The down side to that... moving to a place with not as much storage! Over all we have great storage here in the new house... but our master bathroom is easily half the size with next to no storage.

Boats and I can be vain at times (lol) so we have a lot of stuff that is kept in the bathroom. This posed the first dilemma... making space with no space to make it in.

The next issue I had is naked wall space. Nothing drives me crazy like naked walls. Seriously. Breakup the space people!! There is no reason you can't hang a picture. SOMETHING! (rant over) And there was this random, naked spot over the toilet in the master bath. They could have given us a bigger mirror... but that's neither here nor there. I needed to find a practical way to fill up that space.

The other down side to moving. Things get broken. I had quite a few beautiful wall candle holders that had glass votive holders that a few glass pieces got broken. With out all the glass, it looks silly to hang them on the wall and you can't buy just the replacement glass (unless it is something like Party Lite, which this was not).

So what to do? Throw it out?

Psssssht. Nope. The more I looked at it, the more I was determined to find a use for it. Four out of the 8 glass containers were in tact.

Looking at one of the openings, I realized it was just big enough for me to put my blow dryer in. Then the rest of it fell into place!

Just in case you have the same issues (or just want to make something awesome for your bathroom) here is a little step by step:

First I had spray painted it an antique white and then secured it to the wall.



Since I knew that I was going to have some odd shaped items on it and unevenly distributed weight, I knew I needed to secure it in the bottom as well on both sides to that it would not tip when I put something in or took anything out. I simply put two nails in on either side at the bottom.



Now that it is secured to the wall, you can add the glass jars with your small items. I chose to put mine on the top so that my bigger items would have room on the bottom.



Then you can add everything else. My flat iron is very narrow, but it stays in place when I wrap the cord around the bottom. (Make sure your iron is cool before wrapping it up and storing it.)





On one of the extra open loops, I clip on some of the cute hair flowers. It makes it so they don't get squished and displays them nicely. You could hang necklaces as well if it was high enough.



And with everything all together, it is complete!



There was still a lot of space above the piece, and no where to hang my decorative 'not for use' towels, lol. We have two towel hangers on the opposite walls, but they are so close to the shower, I know they would end up getting used. Don't ask me why I hang towels I don't allow anyone to use... I get that from my mom! So what I did was I took an extra curtain rod and mounted it and hung the towels above the piece. I also hung one of my costume jewelry pieces from it. (I cannot wear jewelry. At least not for very long or I break out in a rash so I don't buy much of it.)



So there you have it... three problems that came together and triumphed into a beautiful and functional piece!

Boom goes the dynamite.