How do I love the Wall Mates... Let me count the ways

The trusty little Wall Mate

One of the best discoveries I have made in the past 2 years was Wall Mates. When the new library was built I expressed a desire to hang paintings and the builder introduced me to them. I had seen them in places like Bunnings but never actually used them but now I am in LOVE! Previously if I wanted to hang anything more substantial than a small painting, it was a laboured process involving much banging of walls and using the electronic stud finder which seems to have the same accurate hit rate of a drunken person at a bar looking for a potential mate - only about one in every 10 possible hits seems to be an actual stud!!


Before: and this was after I got rid of some of the 9/10ths empties

 I am in the process of hanging some display boxes/niches in the bathroom to take the overflow of hair products, face products etc that crowd out the sink, make it a pain to clean and just clutter up my very ordinary unattractive 1980s sink.
The wall I am mounting the niches on was originally to have floating shelves, but they were too deep for the space and would have interfered with the medicine caninet opening , so I comandeered the three niches that I had bought for Caitlin's room. They cost next to nothing ( $10.00 from KMart) and are not terribly well made (I have already reinforced the largest one with bigger screws and will possibly do the same with the other two, but all the things that will live on the shelves are light so I have faith they will hold.

(What am I doing blogging now instead of drilling?) I said "in the process" because I have only just cleaned the wall, measured it up and placed the first wall mate when Michael came in wanting a shower. He has been outside welding a frame for Caitlin's A/C and was so sweaty it looked like he had actually already been in the shower! So I left him to a peaceful shower and decided to write about it.

Some 2 hours or so later....


The new shelving



The clear bench!



Back to the bathroom..shelving is now up and filled

and sink is now decluttered. Now to keep it that way!