Decorative Framed Towel Holder {Updating old hardware}

Hey all! Do you have any idea how excited I am for this warm weather? ..and for summer? We went out of town again this past weekend and got to enjoy 90 degree weather. It was a blast :) While others here at home were left in the rain and 50's and 60's. Came back home, and it was 80 degrees. The heavens were shining down on us :) lol. I love summer. The only thing I'm not sure about is dressing the babe. She's a furnace like her dad, and I am an icebox. So....more times than not she's caught sweating cuz I think she's freezing since I am, so she must be, right?? Nope. So, more than likely she'll be caught just chilling in a diaper all summer lol.

Talking of the babe, this project actually got inspired because of her. I was sitting there, feeding her and had nothing better to look at except a doorway's width of our bathroom and smack dab in the middle of it was our hand towel holder. I had just finished redoing the mirror and counter and was admiring what I could see of it, and then I started looking more and more at the holder. I kept thinking that I should monogram the towels, then this idea came to me. So, this project is compliments of the babe :)

 This is what it looked like before. I didn't hate them. I actually love our holders, but it's always fun to spruce something up a little bit :)

 So, to get started. What you need:
Fabric
Frame/molding
Tape



First, take your towel holder off the wall. Usually they are secured with a little tiny screw, so just undo that screw with a little tiny flat head screwdriver.

 And this is what it mine looked like underneath:

 Now for the next steps. I compiled these all because there's a lot of steps :) See below the picture for the written out steps.

 1. I took the paper that comes in the frame. I just used an ikea frame I had sitting around.
2. I folded the paper in half twice, so quartered it. Then took some scissors and cut out a small rectangle out of the middle.
3. I place the paper on the hardware to make sure it was the right size, not too big, and not too small.
4. I then traced the paper size and middle cut out piece onto a piece of fabric.
5. I folded the fabric into quarters.
6. I cut out the middle rectangle
7. I secured with glue the fabric on top of the piece of paper, just to give the fabric some stiffness.
8. Lastly, I secured the fabric/paper onto the frame with some tape.

And then...I placed the frame onto the hardware, secured the frame to the wall with a nail, and then placed the towel holder back onto the hardware and screwed it back on.

 I decided to make the whole thing cohesive with using the same fabric that I used for the curtains for the middle of the frame. I love how it ties everything in :) I also love that I don't feel like I have to put a picture around this area anymore.

It's amazing how little things can change things just enough to make you happy :)

You can also just secure the fabric to the wall and then get some molding and place it around it. Make it whatever size you want! Or get an oval frame and do this. That would be awesome :) Especially if it was super ornamental. Have fun!