Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series - Towel Bar Set

Two bar lengths, 18 inch and 24 inch. Both lengths are offered in all five finishes: US26 Polished Chrome, US15 Satin Nickel, US4 Satin Brass, US19 Black, and US12P Tuscany Bronze. The 24 inch is the usual choice over a standard vanity or for bath sheets; the 18 inch suits a powder room or the wall beside a shower where wall run is short.

Delaney lists the Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set as residential. For apartment turns, single family rentals, and condo units it's the right class of product. For a hotel corridor bath, a school, or a healthcare washroom where the bar gets pulled on hard and has to meet a facility spec, buy a commercial grade bath accessory instead.

The Yellowstone 500 Series starts at 18 inches, so it won't cover a tighter wall. The Deltana 88TB12 is a 12 inch towel bar in solid brass and is the short option to look at instead.

The Deltana 55D2002/18 is an 18 inch towel bar in the 55D Series, built in solid brass, and the Deltana BBN2002/18 is an 18 inch towel bar in the BBN Series. The Deltana 98C2002/18 is also an 18 inch solid brass towel bar, in the 98C Series Classic pattern. The Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set is offered in 18 inch and 24 inch sizes, so an 18 inch Deltana bar matches the shorter of the two on length.

A double bar doubles the hanging capacity without widening the footprint on the wall. The Emtek Traditional Brass double towel bar, in the Traditional Bath Hardware series, and the Emtek Sandcast Bronze double towel bar, in the Sandcast Bronze Bath Hardware series, are both double-bar units. The Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set is a single-bar towel bar, so a double is a change in configuration, not a like-for-like swap.

Finish is where the match happens. The Yellowstone 500 bar set is finished in the standard US codes, US26 Polished Chrome, US15 Satin Nickel, US4 Satin Brass, US19 Black, and US12P Tuscany Bronze, so if the levers on the doors are specified by the same US code the bath hardware reads as one package. That's the practical reason to buy bath accessories from a door hardware brand rather than a plumbing line, which uses its own finish names.

A single bar like the Yellowstone 500 set holds one towel per bar, which is what most baths and rental units need. A double bar carries two rails on the same pair of posts and hangs twice the linen off one set of anchors, worth it in a shared bath or a master where two towels compete for the same wall. Emtek's Traditional Brass Double Towel Bar and Sandcast Bronze Double Towel Bar are the double versions to look at.

For a residential fit-out at volume, the closest cross-shops are the Orca Hardware towel bar sets, which come as sets the same way: the 27 Series Swirl, the 36 Series Swirl, the 48 Series Blakely, and the Camano 24 inch set. If you want solid brass construction stated on the record, Deltana's 55D Series 18 inch, 98C Series Classic 18 inch, and BBN Series 18 inch bars are the ones that say so.

Not on length. The Deltana 88TB12 is a 12 inch towel bar in the 88 Series, solid brass. The Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set is made in 18 inch and 24 inch sizes, so the 88TB12 is a shorter bar that will leave a different stud and anchor spacing than either Yellowstone size. It suits a narrow wall between a vanity and a door casing rather than a straight replacement of an 18 or 24 inch run.

If the rest of the bath set is being specified in brass, the Emtek Modern Brass towel bar in the Modern Brass Bath Hardware series and the Emtek Transitional Brass towel bar in the Transitional Bath Hardware series are brass single bars in styled suites. The Deltana 55D2002/18 and Deltana 98C2002/18 are solid brass bars in the 55D and 98C Series. The Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set is a residential-rated bath accessory offered in US26 Polished Chrome, US15 Satin Nickel, US4 Satin Brass, US19 Black and US12P Tuscany Bronze, so a satin brass Yellowstone will read closer to a brass suite than the chrome or black.

It ships as a set, bar plus the two posts, which is why it's sold by bar length rather than as a loose rail. Order the length that matches your wall run and finish, and you have the complete assembly for the one location.

Delaney's black on the Yellowstone 500 Series is coded US19, and it's offered in both the 18 inch and 24 inch bar. If the rest of the black hardware in the unit is spec'd US19, this lines up with it.

Both are 18 inch towel bars and both would span the same wall run as an 18 inch Delaney Yellowstone 500 Series towel bar set. The 55D2002/18 belongs to the Deltana 55D Series and is built in solid brass; the BBN2002/18 belongs to the Deltana BBN Series. The series designation is what separates them, so the choice comes down to which Deltana bath suite the rest of the room is being fitted with.