Bulbs & Fittings Ideas

I really like this toilet paper holder. I do not use the tissue holder on top, so I can fit 5 double rolls in it (if you do use the tissue holder for tissues, you can fit 4 double rolls in it). It’s very attractive and doesn’t look cheap. The only negative about it is that it’s not very heavy so when you try to open the door, the whole cabinet moves with it. Well, we just bought some rubber pads for the bottom of the cabinet and that fixed the problem. I would recommend this product.

I wanted a toilet paper holder that HID the extra toilet paper in our powder room from our Husky dog, who was prone to taking bites out of the rolls of TP if they were exposed. (It is apparently a breed thing – a lot of Siberian Husky dogs do this – lucky us).

Anyway, this did the trick. It also looks very nice and fits very well in our powder room. We have a nice powder room with an expensive pedestal sink and so on, and it doesn’t look out of place there. It is neither particularly fancy, nor particularly cheap looking, just completely unobjectionable and rather small. It will fit in almost any bathroom because the style of it is so neutral. The little tissue box holder on top is a nice touch. It is big enough to hold even those extra large roles of TP we buy at Costco. Most importantly, the TP doesn’t have bites taken out of it now!

While I like it, if you are somebody who struggles to assemble anything, I wouldn’t recommend this for you. You need to use glue to glue the little dowels that hold the thing together at several points. This is a basic woodworking skill, but if you don’t already know how to do it, it is a little tricky. I suspect the vast majority of the people who think this thing is badly made just didn’t assemble it correctly. I wouldn’t say it is amazingly well made, but it is certainly made well enough for its simple purpose. If you want to go for it and assemble it, here is what you need to know:

Glue needs to touch EVERYWHERE where the wood of the dowel meets the wood inside the hole. No glue = no bond at that point. More surface area creates a stronger bond. So you put glue in both holes AND put a little more glue on the dowel too before you insert it. Then, when you put the two things together, the excess glue will squeeze out and make a little bit of a mess around the outside. You take a damp paper towel and wipe that excess off before it dries, careful not to get so much water on it that the water gets in and dilutes the glue which remains where you do want it. If some excess glue doesn’t come out when you put it together, you probably didn’t use enough glue and there are dry spots down in the hole somewhere and the bond will be weaker. You only get one chance to do this right, you have to get enough glue in it the first time. Once the glue dries, it sets and that is the end of that. That is why woodworking pros like Norm from New Yankee Workshop always put a little too much in and wipe off the excess, because they know they definitely put enough in that way. It doesn’t need to squirt out of there and make a huge mess, just enough that you get a little bit of excess every time.

Nice, clean-looking storage for small powderrooms. Price was not bad. Was easy to put together. Was what we needed for storage for a bathroom with a pedastal sink.