Towel bars are totally overrated, right? Not according to my wife, who was very happy to hear Moen was sending us a medley of their bath accessories to review. Among that medley were a towel bar, a towel ring, and a hook for both their Sienna and Brantford line of bath accessories. It’s a bit of a long story, but our old bath hardware was a casualty of multiple lead abatement, painting, and stain/finish projects. The truth of it is, the old hardware went away because it was really ugly, and really flimsy. You know those towel bars that fall down if you just look at them funny? Anyway, you get the idea. Unfortunately for my wife, I sometimes remove/demolish hardware, doors, load-bearing walls, etc. before I actually have replacements lined up. Towel bars fell into this category. In a future HF article, you’ll even get to read about how to make an improvised towel hangar from an unsightly hole in your bath tile. However, improvised towel-hanging just didn’t cut it in this household. [click to continue…]
One of the most cleverly useful innovations we found at this year’s National Hardware show was the Original Adjustable Door Hinge. Given the large number of people who can’t properly install a door, combined with the equally large number of doors that no longer work well due to settling, new flooring heights, and warping, there should be a huge market for a simple solution to sticky doors. Not everyone wants to fully remove their sticking door, and then plane down an edge, and then re-stain or re-paint that shaved edged. This was a widespread issue begging for a better solution. That’s where the Adjustable Door Hinge comes in. [click to continue…]
Tool-Rank’s Chris Rodenius came up with a clever idea that we thought HomeFixated readers would benefit from: Storing your drill bits in pill organizers.
Rodenius, you’re a genius! (And we bet we’re the first people ever to make that word play with your name, right?) [click to continue…]
HomeFixated sponsor, FastCap, is a favorite of ours for all kinds of reasons – none of which have to do with them advertising on the site (well, that is a reason to like them, of course – but our love goes beyond the almighty dollar). We like FastCap because it’s a company that listens to its customers and works to be a problem solver for all kinds of tool, renovation, restoration, building and around-the-house projects.
That said, I have to make fun of the name of one of their products and I hope they don’t punish us for it. [click to continue…]
