Finally Hanging the Towel Bar...

So for my weekly "Dude, Get on that Already" challenge, I installed a towel bar in my master bathroom. It's not that I never had a tower bar before, but when I painted the bathroom 2 months ago, I took down the old towel bars and didn't put them back up since they weren't really my style. Unfortunately I didn't take a before pic, but here's the matching hand towel ring, so I'll let you imagine what the two towel bars looked like...

So at the time, I went to Lowes and picked out a new towel bar, but for some reason I never got around to installing it. For 8 weeks I put my towels folded on the closed toilet lid while I showered, and let them dry hanging over a chair in by bedroom for really no reason at all. Because this literally took me about 30 minutes. Like I said, I have a problem with unfinished projects....

Anyway, installing the towel bar was pretty straight forward -  I just followed the directions, which did come with this handy template so I didn't have to measure out space between the brackets:

Then I got to drilling. This is actually the first time I've used my new drill, which I bought along with the towel bar in order to install it (and because I needed a drill in general). And really, I think its probably the first time I've used a drill at all! So for historys sake, here are the first holes I've ever drilled in my own wall haha.

And after that, I just attached the brackets and the towel bar hooked right on! I'm not sure why the walls look so yellow in the pics, in reality it's actually a light tan color, but you get the picture.

At first I was a little worried that it stuck out too far, but once I got the towels on I think there is still plenty of space, so overall I'm pleased with the upgrade! And feeling silly for not knocking this out sooner.

Can you spot another needed upgrade? (other than replacing the hand towel ring and matching toilet paper bar too!) I definitely need a longer shower curtain! I'm thinking of going with plain white, but who knows when I'll get to that... one step at a time I guess!