Definitely get a helper to install. Functional and very minimalistic

We have this big bay window in our quirky old house, and my youngest will spend hours playing legos there every day. I've always wanted to keep plants there, but I don't love hanging heavy things from plaster or wood ceilings in our home, and I didn't want to take up any of his play space.

This solution is perfect! The wood tone looks (sort of) more like furniture than something that belongs in a closet. It assembles and adjusts very easily, locks in place, and wedged in to where I wanted it without a single scuff to my wooden painted ceiling or floor. Sometimes tension rods will leave scuff or scratch marks. The rubber top/bottom material is designed really well.

I've only used one of the horizontal hanging rods and it's fine. In this case, the vertical rods are placed right next to window casing so I'm not worried that they will splay out. And the height is shorter, around 65". I had to remove the connector rods from inside the bottom piece, to get that shorter height. If I was using all 9' of height I would probably want both horizontal rods installed for support.

I have 5 houseplants in 6-8" containers, fully watered/fed and the hanging rod doesn't budge. It's very sturdy and I'm not worried about the little Lego kid knocking it over.

Instructions were fairly easy IMO. I purchased a used/like new open box option bc delivery was faster, it was a few dollars cheaper and included free prime returns. One of the rods was slightly bent at the end but it still wedged in where it was supposed to go and works perfectly. The delivery person even knocked at my door to explain that the box looked beat up- so I got to check it quickly before he left to ensure all the pieces were in it. Ive never had a delivery person do that before!

All in all a great purchase, great delivery, and we finally have a window full of happy houseplants! The plant hangers and pots were also purchased on Amazon, I will come back to link them.

USE: We needed a solution for a small, oddly shaped walk-in closet an with 8' ceiling in our master bedroom, but we don't own the property so options were limited. I researched a lot of free-standing options with anti-tip brackets that were much more expensive, but on one wall with no studs there were no options that would meet our needs. Then I found this. It allowed us to take full advantage of the height of the closet, and maximized what could be hung on a 40" wall with no studs. All of my husband's clothes can fit double-hung in this space now! It worked so well, I scrapped my much more expensive plans for my side of the closet and got another of these. I'm able to space the two hanging bars out so far that my dresses will fit on either top or bottom without need for long-hang (though I admit, I'm not tall and maxi-dresses are not my thing). We have had our units for two months, and are so pleased with them that I'm ordering another for my daughter.

Installation: it was easy and instructions were clear with helpful tips--but it does help if you have someone on the tall and strong side to help set the vertical poles, as they are essentially tension rods. A tape measure to check that poles are the same distance from the wall and from each other, top and bottom, and a small level did the trick to make sure they went together as well as possible.

Sturdiness: My husband was ready to be critical and send it back, but even he had to admit that this is quite a sturdy unit. By this I do NOT mean that there is no movement in it. The unit will move back and forth if you shake it, but the top and bottom of the vertical poles remain secure to the floor and ceiling. And honestly, though I shook it plenty to test it out, I have not noticed any movement or shaking in the unit during normal use over the two months that we have had it.

Note: Because this is basically a vertical tension rod system, it needs a solid surface beneath the vertical rods, and a solid ceiling up top.

I needed a place to store partially used clothes--clothes that are not ready for the laundry hamper yet, but are used and should not go in with fresh clothes. For example, a hoodie that I wore briefly to make a quick errand outside or a pair of jeans. Because I do not want to throw them in the dirty laundry pile yet, they end up being clutter around the bedroom or living room. I also did not want to drill holes, or make permanent fixtures for this purpose, so this solution was the perfect one. It was easy to assemble, although it did require some effort to pull the tension rod to make sure it holds securely in place to my comfort level, but that is a good thing. It means the spring mechanism is of good quality. It has worked out perfectly so far, and I like that I can potentially move this to a different area if I wanted to and not have to worry about damage. Well worth it to me!

Easy way to make more hanging space without drilling into the wall. Versatile: i can imagine using it NOT against a wall. I also considered getting another one to hang plants from. Cool product.