It's done. That's the best thing I can say about it. I had purchased these hooks all the way back in mid-November, and the fact that they're only now up on the wall is testament to 1) my laziness, and 2) what a miserable project this was for some reason.
They're pretty little hooks, and I got them pretty cheaply (although part of the initial delay was that I bought them online and they shipped the wrong item). My first shot at trying to install them was perusing the massive screw selection at the hardware store, and (cleverly, I thought) picking up some items called drywall screws. I drilled some pilot holes for them, and the measuring I did worked out correctly, so I thought everything was going swimmingly. False. When I tried to put them in, the threads of the screws didn't "catch." Turns out drywall screws are actually for hanging drywall to studs, not for hanging items into drywall. Womp womp.
At this point it was looking like I was going to have to break down and buy anchors in order to install these things, which I was hoping to avoid since they were such a pain in the ass to get out of the wall when I was un-installing all the old bathroom hardware. But oh well. I sucked it up and got the anchors (after many weeks of procrastination). Then today when I started to install them, a number of other things went wrong, the details of which I won't bore you with. Suffice it to say, it took several hours longer than it should have and in the end the solution came down to using a different screwdriver.
Sigh.... Seriously, I was ready to throw a few things. But I got them up on the wall more or less sturdily.
I'm not sure they're 100% level, but at this point I could care less! Maybe someday I'll feel like adjusting them, but for now, in order to preserve my sanity I just need to move on to something else. The good news is they're doing what I need them to do, which is to hold my bathrobes and drying towels. For the last two months (since I started the whole bathroom project), the bathrobes have been living in my bedroom and taking up a lot of space so it'll be nice to get them back where they're supposed to be.
I'd like to tell you that now that this is over I'll be quickly moving on to adding some art of some sort to that long blank wall in the bathroom. But to be honest, I'm totally stumped on what to put up there, so I might need to leave that alone for a while until something speaks to me. The other project I have in contemplation is painting my kitchen cabinets white...but that's overwhelming to think about too, so who knows what I'll do next?
Hmmmmmmmm....
