Home Project Gone Wild

In my house the word “home project” tends to be a bad word. I appear to be the only one who really enjoys it (at least at the beginning). After mom passed dad was wanting to get rid of some of moms décor and so I took these wrought iron, “beachy-type” decorations. I wanted to redecorate my bathroom and who would turn down free stuff. Besides….if I can’t live by a beach…might as well make a room in my house feel like I do ! What started off as “free stuff” quickly turned into “well, now I need to get new towels…I need a new shower curtain…new bath mats..” well, you see where I’m going with this. My aunt and uncle came in to visit the last two days and when they got here I explained I was in the middle of redoing the bathroom they would be using. I started describing to my uncle what I wanted to do. When I told him that I was going to basically make a shabby chic, roof like structure over my tub to look like the roof of a worn out beach shack….HE GOT EXCITED !! He couldn’t stop thinking about it. I came home yesterday and he had wood laying on my den floor to show me how I needed to do it. It was brilliant. Then he said, “let’s go to Lowe’s and I’m going to buy you towel racks, toilet paper holder, new light, the wood for the shack, etc…”. WOW…how blessed am I ?? We got home late…tried to fix the light…didn’t have the right hardware…so he didn’t have time to do it. They flew out this morning. Hmmm….(Doug is out of town, of course) so what to do ?? There’s no way I can look at all that new stuff the next few days without seeing it put up, so off to get the tools. BTW…I hate reading instructions. It’s like me trying to read a map. Just not going to happen. To my surprise I was able to hang 3 towel racks and a toilet paper holder. Sooooooooo proud of myself. Of course I didn’t use all the hardware they provided. Seriously !! A man has to pack those things. Somehow they think more is better. Sometimes “more” is just MORE !! I’m not bolting the fridge to the wall…it’s a towel rack for heaven sake. The only thing I’m scared to attempt is the light fixture. I WANT TO SOOOOO BAD !! It’s like a “right of passage”. I want to know I CAN do it ! I know how to flip the breaker….so I’m not completely concerned about getting electrocuted. What I’m mostly afraid of is connecting the wrong wires and shorting out an entire wall. It CAN happen ! (we had a dog bite into a wire once, we flipped on the light and shorted out an entire wall) A very expensive fix !  Just trying to weigh the odds……haha All I know is “simple” is never simple !!