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This is awesome. I've been trying to figure out the best way to hang up more than one towel at a time in my bathroom. This is definitely apartment therapy.

brilliant!

I have one that I will post on AT Classifieds. (I thought it could be installed without drilling.)

Or for a lot less, you could just put up 2 tension rods, which is what I did.

I have something similar but it didn't require drilling. It used tension to stay up. I bought it at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. I use the outer rod for a decorative shower curtain and the inner rod for a liner that I replace periodically. It looks a lot neater.

mi.jo makes and excellent point.

Really super! We're remodeling and have no room for conventional towel bars. This could possibly be our solution.

Mi.jo wrote, "Or for a lot less, you could just put up 2 tension rods."

Or 3 tension rods: if the ceiling is high enough (or you are short enough) it is also convenient to center a tension rod over the tub, to hang hand washing.

i just got the DUO, but did not want to mount it! it requires two holes...and the rods are rather flimsy. so for now, we're just using it as a tension rod. it's great! i'm not using it for a towel rod, though, only for curtain and liner. no mildew growing between them, too, which is awesome!

it was a bitch to get up, though. don't overextend it, because then you have to go through this whole process of taking the rod apart and redoing it...annoying. but it's a very very cool product.

I love this product. I bought it after it won the design award last year. I has made my tiny LES apt more livable by actually drying my towel before the next time I shower. I did the same thing as the person above by using it as a tension rod, works great. I also over extended it and fed it through again.

The only thing I would change is if it could be one of those hoop kind where you have more space in the shower. Although it is worth every penny.

When we moved into the apt, there was (of course) already a rod in the shower and my roommate inexplicably had one in with her stuff. So I just threw it up there... and next thing you know I'm potty training my son... Can't imagine how I would have got through that without the extra hanging rod.

Duo is $39.95. mi.jo's suggestion is just a few bucks and would look just as nice if done with matching rods. And for apartment dwellers, seems to me to make more sense. No extra holes in that tile. Regular tension rods are sturdy also. It's a no brainer I would think.

My plan in the bathroom is to mount towel bars *behind* the door (which is usually left open when the bathroom is not in use). The idea is that I don't necessarily want to display our mismatched towels - family members don't always use the "approved" towels so it's hopeless maintaining a towel-based colour scheme. Love this idea for those who have a perfect towel collection though.

Nobody else just throws their towels over the shower rod?

Just one caveat about tension rods -- make sure you get one that's sturdy, and has a lot of springiness in the tension if you're going to use it to drip-dry clothes. I guess my tension rod had seen better days, several years ago, I hung some clothes to drip dry over the tub, and in the middle of the night (of course) the whole thing came crashing down. Woke me up with kind of a start ("kind of" being a bit of an understatement).

Other than that, I'm really liking the idea of a rod for an outer shower curtain and a separate rod for the liner. Right now I have both on the same rod, and it's not optimal.

Should have added -- as for towels, I'm planning to get an over the door towel rack for the apartment I'm moving into. That's the most accessible place to reach from the tub/shower. Anyone have any pros or cons about those? (There's only one towel rod in the bathroom at the moment, and it's over the light switch. As in, when a towel's hanging on it, you have to scrabble around under the towel to turn on the light.)

i bought a two tier over the door towel rod holder from bb&b and it's been perfectly fine. i've taken it to three apartments without any problems. holds a towel for me and one for my visitin bf =) behind the door works also for when they don't match.

Towel Heretic:

You bet! :-)

Since my son and his girlfriend are staying with me for a while, it means 3 towels in a small, 1 towel rod bathroom. I have 2 'sets' of towels (bath, hand, washcloth) in different colors, and several towels I picked up for 'in case'... she likes the blue one, he likes the green one, and I use one of the others, and it gets thrown over the shower curtain rod. I've given up on trying to maintain any coordination while they're here - I'm happy if the bathroom's clean and they get their things back into the provided baskets instead of leaving them on the counter!

I have this very item and really like it..But note to other posters: You don't have to drill it into the wall--we are just using ours as a tension rod and it is very sturdy!

As for over-the-door hooks, those are also handy but I've found that metal ones can scrape the top of the door and door jamb pretty badly.

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