by Jennifer Bailey
Most shower curtain rods are the standard straight curtain rods; however now there is a new type of curtain rod that gives you more space in the shower. This is the curved shower curtain rods. These curved shower rods actually increase the shower space by 25 to 35 percent, hence making your bathroom look bigger than it really is. The curved shower curtain rods are also easy to install, and are normally available in packages that contain wood screws, tile anchors, sheetrock anchors, setscrews and Allen wrenches.
Once also it was my business to go in search of the relics of a human body, mangled by sharks, which had just been cast up, a week after a wreck, having got the direction from a lighthouse: I should find it a mile or two distant over the sand, a dozen rods from the water, covered with a cloth, by a stick stuck up. I expected that I must look very narrowly to find so small an object, but the sandy beach, half a mile wide, and stretching farther than the eye could reach, was so perfectly smooth and bare, and the mirage toward the sea so magnifying, that when I was half a mile distant the insignificant sliver which marked the spot looked like a bleached spar, and the relics were conspicuous as if they lay in state on that sandy plain, or a generation had labored to pile up their cairn there. Close at hand they were simply some bones with a little flesh adhering to them, in fact only a slight inequality in the sweep of the shore. There was nothing at all remarkable about them, and they were singularly inoffensive both to the senses and the imagination. But as I stood there they grew more and more imposing. They were alone with the beach and the sea, whose hollow roar seemed addressed to them, and I was impressed as if there was an understanding between them and the ocean which necessarily left me out, with my snivelling sympathies. That dead body had taken possession of the shore, and reigned over it as no living one could, in the name of a certain majesty which belonged to it.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
There are certain special features that make up curved shower curtain rods. They are suitable for both oval and rectangular-shaped tubs, and they come in several types including rolling shower curtain rods, and 5' or 6' shower rods with brushed-nickel finishes. No matter what the type, they all create a sense of open space in the bathroom. The brackets used in curved shower curtain rods allow for adjustments to suit different lengths of the bath space. In fact, the curtain rods can be cut down in length, if necessary to make the installation process easier. Just because the curtain rods are curved does not mean that need to get a new set of shower curtains, as normal shower curtains fit nicely into curved rods.
There are a few other advantages that come with curved shower curtain rods. Apart from the obvious space factor, these rods are very effective, efficient, durable and economical. They prevent water leakage because of the special 3' curve-in feature at the corners. This feature also prevents the shower curtains from coming out of the bathtub, which can be messy and troublesome. Because the rods are curved, you can be assured of more space for your hand and elbow movement, which is very important when you are bathing. Curtain Rods provides detailed information on Curtain Rods, Shower Curtain Rods, Decorative Curtain Rods, Magnetic Curtain Rods and more. Curtain Rods is affiliated with Kitchen Curtains.
The ocean is but a larger lake. At midsummer you may sometimes see a strip of glassy smoothness on it, a few rods in width and many miles long, as if the surface were covered with a thin pellicle of oil, just as on a country pond.... Yet this same placid ocean, as civil now as a city’s harbor, a place for ships and commerce, will ere long be lashed into sudden fury, and all its caves and cliffs will resound with tumult. It will ruthlessly heave these vessels to and fro, break them in pieces in its sandy or stony jaws, and deliver their crews to sea-monsters. It will play with them like seaweed, distend them like dead frogs, and carry them about, now high, now low, to show to the fishes, giving them a nibble. This gentle ocean will toss and tear the rag of a man’s body like the father of mad bulls, and his relatives may be seen seeking the remnants for weeks along the strand. From some quiet inland hamlet they have rushed weeping to the unheard-of shore, and now stand uncertain where a sailor has recently been buried amid the sand-hills.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)