Flexible Towel Rail
These towel rails are on the inside of our toilet/shower door. The space here is very small, so I needed to create a towel rail that would "give" when bumped.
The towel rails have a classic "metallic tube" look. They're actually made of aluminum tubes, one inside the other with ends that overlap so one tube "nests" into the other. They're held together by bungee cords that have been pulled tight to hold the rails in place, but when you bump them, they give and spring back into place instead of bend permanently.
The ends of the bungee cord are pulled through the small drill hole at the center of the wood bracket, pulled tight, folded over, turned back on itself then fed into the larger diameter hole on the other side. Friction holds it in place for a while, but a drop of urethane glue makes it permanent.
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