My double shower curtain and towel rod

by Jen (June 14, 2008)

While shopping for things for my new apartment, I found the coolest gizmo: a double shower curtain rod. I could hang the shower curtain on one rod and use the other to hang up towels or laundry I didn’t want to bake in the dryer, and because they were on separate rods I wouldn’t have to take the towels and laundry off when I wanted to shower or move the curtain back and forth. It seemed so awesome I forked over the $40 without a second thought.

Then I got home and tried to install it. It was one of the most difficult pieces of hardware I’ve ever dealt with. I extended one of the rods a bit too far, and there was no way to get it back in (the directions had a solution, but I couldn’t get it to work). As I wrestled with it, a worrying question started to form in my mind: if I did finally get it installed, how would I get it back down when the time came?

That’s when it hit me: all I needed were two $10-12 tension rods:

Bingo! I just installed them like normal, putting one a couple of inches in front of the other. I had enough money left over from the $40 to buy that gorgeous curtain and the hooks to hold it.

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