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Bathroom Basics To Simplify and Organize
 Have you decided where to put the towel bars in your master bath? Is there room for a hook next to the shower door to hold your robe or a towel? All of our shower enclosures are glass, and hanging a towel near the shower door has been a challenge. I recently discovered a substantial clear plastic hook that can be installed directly on the glass (as shown in the picture to the right). The locking suction cup that holds it in place really stays put! You can find these hooks at Home Focus Catalog (Item #250401)
And how about a magazine rack that won’t take up any room in the bathroom? No more piles of magazines or newspapers on the bathroom floor! The trim carpenters can build one for you, or you can buy the rack already made at Home Focus Catalog (Item # 172059)
Relaxing in a large soaker or jetted tub is a wonderful way to de-stress, but cleaning those large bathtubs can be a challenge.  To save time on cleaning day (as well as take the strain off your back), consider including a pull-out spray fixture in addition to the main faucet. The pull-out fixture doesn’t provide enough volume to function as the main faucet, but it’s worth its weight in gold when it comes to cleaning the tub! Place both fixtures together on either the left or right of the tub. Putting them on either the back side or in the middle will be awkward.
When designing your tub deck, give yourself some “tushy room.”  Having enough space to sit and comfortably swing your legs into and out of the tub is much safer than stepping directly to or from the floor. The tub to the right is missing this “tushy” room. In addition, the fixtures are in the middle, and there is no pull-out spray faucet. Increasing the depth of the deck would have provided more sitting room. Mounting taller fixtures (required to reach over the tub rim from the deck), including a spray faucet, near the front of the left or right side would have made this tub both easier to use and easier to clean.
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