Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left the bench, has died. He was 83.
Placements for towel bars, toilet roll holders and robe hooks need to be considered during the concept design stage of a bathroom project and should not be installed as after thoughts. Towel bars should be mounted 42 inches above the floor and should be sized to maximize the available space.
Bar Dimensions. Your bar can be as long as you want it, but professional bars are 42-inches tall. The average bar top is between 16 to 20-inches wide, and the average bar overhang is 8-inches. You may want to extend that overhand by a couple of inches to make it easier for people to sit at your bar without banging their knees against the bar wall.