A Free-Standing Towel Rack Solution

Sometimes I've run into a design problem that Ifind.
knew I could solve with a simple solution. My storyThe idea must have had merit, because today, you
explains my quest to find a free standing towel rack,can find a free standing towel rack in a wide variety
and how it changed my master bath from almostof sizes, finishes, and features. If you have limited
perfect to exactly right.floor space and need a place to hang the terrycloth,
Several years ago I was involved in a challengingyou can find a simple free standing towel rack on
home renovation project. We bought a 120-year-oldpost and a weighted base. The post is topped with
Queen Anne Victorian, a house that had been thean S-shaped hanging rod, or a set of free-swinging
victim of several non-sympathetic additions andbars on the top of the post, or an open oval rack.
adaptations. Our goal was to restore the house toWith this free standing towel rack, there's plenty of
something close to its original state, preserving itsroom to hang a few towels while taking up less than
character but still updating it so it would bea square foot of floor space. And if you want to
comfortable for a modern family to live and work in.hang hand towels and don't have the nearby wall
I discovered that is more difficult to work within thespace for a conventional towel bar, you can get a
confines of an existing building than to build a newcountertop version of the free standing towel rack,
one. It wasn't impossible, mind you, and a surprisingtoo.
number of details fell into place quite easily.An elegant solution follows my instincts about using a
I was particularly happy when we were able toquilt rack. Today you can find a free standing towel
create a traditional master bath with contemporaryrack in all the popular hardware finishes. They are
features. We found reproduction tile and re-used solidnow readily available, and they provide two or three
wood doors original to the home. Our new masterhanging rods--enough space to hang towels for a
bath was as perfect as I could imagine.whole family. A base shelf on a free standing towel
Perfect, that was, until it was time to install a towelrack can store folded towels and spare bathroom
bar. We had no place to screw anything into the wallessentials.
within reach of the shower. Pocket doors, plumbing,Another innovative design for the free standing
lack of a reasonable expanse of wall-I had no placetowel rack is a towel ladder. Even if you have limited
to hang a towel. But I knew there had to be apassage in your bathroom, the floor space that the
solution. I was on a quest to find a free standingladder takes up is minimal, and you can hang four
towel rack.towels is less than two feet of wall space.
Although I hadn't seen them anywhere at the time, IIf you have space in your bathroom, another free
knew the free standing towel rack couldn't be astanding towel rack takes its design from the
far-fetched idea. I was thinking of a quilt rack, butétagère. Rather than having open shelves, this
none were narrow enough for the space I wasrack uses side bars for hanging towels. It gives you
trying to fill. Eventually, I found a free standing towelhanging space on four sides, and might give you
rack in an in-flight catalog. It was a rare and luckyhanging space for outside for pool towels.