This weekend we headed over to one of our favorite stores in Philadephia, Foster's Urban Hardware [3rd/Arch Sts] to get some shower curtain rings and look for a coatrack for the back of our front door. We have a couple of bulky winter jackets that take up too much room in our closet and there's no room for a free standing coatrack, so Lady thought a set of hooks on the back of the door would suit us best. She was right and we got the one pictured above.
I'm also semi-obsessed with shower curtain rings. How odd is that? When I lived at home with my parents, I replaced the dinky plastic ones with rings that had bearings in them. They stayed put better. We already had a set of these in our downstairs bathroom, so we picked up another set for the upstairs one - which now needs a new showerhead. Now where to get a new showerhead.
We both like the stuff Umbra makes. And most of the stuff at Foster's will appeal to one of us. Everything in there is either brightly colored [Lady] or silver/black with aluminium or chrome accents [me].
Also in the store while we were there on Saturday afternoon was a gigantic doggie. It looked like a cross between a Weimaraner and a Bull Mastiff. It had the Weirmaraner silky grey short hair coat and the floppity ears, but it was huuuuge and with a gigantic Bull head, not as pointy as a Weimaraner's, but without the droopy cheeks of a Bull. It was taller than my hips and probably 175lbs or so, as thick as a Great Dane I'd say. Never seen anything like it before. Before I could ask the owner what kind of a dog it was, he left the store. I have no idea how that gigantic dog turned around in the store to get out of there.
Two more shots of the installed hooks, unopened:
And opened without anything on them:
It attaches to the door with three four screws. You measure the screw positioning and then slide the entire coatrack thingie onto them. Pat and I miraculously measured and screwed the screws perfectly on the first try. We were both quite surprised and happy. Great to have a friend with a lot of cool powertools!
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