Hi Gary, I don't know if you're still searching for shower storage ideas but I, too, am looking for something. I thought I had seen the ideal corner shower caddy (freestanding) a while back but now I can't seem to find it. In the meantime, I have found chrome caddies at Frontgate, Target, organizeit.com, and through Amazon. They range in price from Frontgate's $300 version, which is about 48" tall, to the much shorter (24") and less expensive models. Those are $16, $33, and $49, approximately. If anyone has found a good freestanding shower caddy, I'd love to see it. And good luck Gary!

Here is an interesting solution that I stumbled across while looking for something else: "I suggest that you try using Velcro to hang your tiles. I use industrial strength Velcro glued to the tile with E-6800 silicone adhesive(also known as 'ShooGoo'), and the mating surface of Velcro can be glued to the wall, or glued to a backing material(I use marine ply), which is fastened to the surface with drywall screws or anchors. The system is earthquake-proof(the wineries in California use it now to secure their valuable bottles in storage)."

"Hi - My name is Sweeby and I'm a tile addict." Well, more accurately, I'm a ceramic tile addict. Stones tiles can be lovely - glass too. But it's ceramics I dream about at night. (Yes - Really) The color intensity of a ceramic glaze -- the depth of color -- the range of colors available. The subtlety and the boldness! Crackles, shiney, mattes. Absolute flats with rectified edges. Handmade with irregular surfaces and color variations. Earthy tiles. Out of this world space-age tiles. Vintage tiles. Futuristic tiles. Spanish Villas, Japanese Tea Rooms, Sweedish firesides, French Bakeries, English greenhouses... How do I love tiles? Let me count the ways...

In one bathroom I got the tile-in semi recessed toilet roll holder and tile-in ceramic brackets that for a towel bar in the shower. They blend with the tile. In one bathroom I had a custom, fully recessed toilet paper and spare niche fabricated out of Corian that fit in with the tile layout and matched the tile. For towel bars in this and another bathroom I used Kohler Purist Grab Bars. I like using grab bars that are well anchored for towel bars because first, they are more sturdily mounted. and second because they can be used as grab bars for assistance now or later in life. Because I obsess about such things I also bought some extra so if I want to add some in 20 years I will have ones that all match. I personally do not like fully surface mounted toilet roll holders, so where the recessed ones went, and where all the towel bar/grab bars went required that this be thought about in the Framing stage of the bathroom. Because the recesses and framing can't interfere with each other and you need extra blocking for proper grab bar/towel bar mounting. I think one of the reasons that surface-mounted ornamental sets including the toilet roll holder and such became more popular is that nobody needs to think about where it goes ahead of time. I rarely see an old bathroom (1920-1970) that didn't have recessed or more built-in/permanent looking roll holders and stuff. (Especially toilet roll holders). Partly it was because the area allowed for the toilet was smaller, too (12" on center vs. 15-18" today), but part of it is that nobody needs to think about it until it's time to stick it up. I work in an office building and they remodeled the lavatories and went from stalls to cubicles where the toilet roll holder was surface mounted and one by one each one was pulled out of the wall because people used it to hoist themselves up. They had to change them all to those big commercial style holders. Long answer, but in general, I like grab bars for towel holders and I like them to be more ornamental and coordinate with the bathroom rather than the utilitarian sort. Kohler options are pretty expensive, especially Purist, but I figure I am doing it once.