Where to Put Hand Towels?
debbiejoy_ca
14 years ago
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14 years agoDo these shelves have sides where you can attach a towel ring or are the shelves built into the wall?
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Comments (86)Oh - I have been asking the same questions for years and not found a good solution. When we redid out kitchen last year we decided to go for laminate (Formica) cabinets that we had custom made for us because we wanted the durability and ability to stand up to dampness. I planned to use large bar-type pulls on the drawers and cabinets and could hang towels wherever I wanted without fear of damaging the cabinets. Unfortunately, the cabinets didn't meet with out approval (a real problem with sight-unseen custom cabinetry) so I'm now using the DW handle (located next to the prep sink). This is fine for wiping clean hands and an wet apple or tomato after washing, but not good for drying dishes over at the clean-up sink - that DW doesn't have a handle. So I leave a towel draped over the dish rack next to the sink. I am mentally designing a towel holder that would sit on the counter or in the dish rack, similar to the ones you can get for hand towels in a bathroom. I don't want it to take up too much space on the counter and I don't want to drip on the counter so this is a challenge. We're redoing our kitchen, again, and will probably end up with wood cabinets. I am thinking about getting some sort of shield for the apron in front of the sink and the sink cabinet door to protect it from water from spills and a towel hanging there. (Now there's an idea for an enterprising inventor!) I might even choose a completely different door for that location, maybe thermafoil or such, and incorporate it into the "design." It's probably going to be my last kitchen and as for my body, I'm too old to worry about appearances. I'm more concerned about function than form!...See MoreWhere to hang towel bar for hand towels?
Comments (7)The hand towels in my guest bathroom / powder room get very wet. I think my teen son uses them to wash his face. I plan to remodel my son's bathroom next year. The first picture below is of my remodeled guest bathroom. In this room, the toilet is next to the vanity, so side of vanity was obvious place to hang TP holder, not a towel. Contractor was reluctant to hang the towel bar on the wall because the towels cover the electrical outlet. In my master bathroom, I have no towel bars, so hand towels sit on the counter. The layout in my son's room is more like the "By the Bay" Houzz photo above, there will be space for a towel bar on either the right-side side of the vanity or on the wall to the left (as in the "Art House" Houzz photo). But ... I'm thinking about keeping a medicine cabinet on the wall, so would be crowded to add a towel bar here, as in second photo below, taken at an open house in my area....See MoreWhere do most people place their hand towels?
Comments (20)Thanks for all the ideas. I will definitely be using some of them in one of the bathrooms I'm redoing. I had a brainstorm yesterday where I install an appliance door pull as a small hand towel rack on the front of an open shelf on my vanity. It won't be resting against a wood door, and it will be next to the sink. At least that's my idea for now....See MoreBest place to hang the hand towels in the kitchen?
Comments (17)louiseize - I haven't decided if I will mount it directly to the underside of the back cabinet frame or vertically on the very top of the wall fairly close to the upper cabinet yet. We hate damp towels in a laundry basket, etc and want them to be throughly dried before it's crumpled waiting for the wash. This way, it'll be near my tile backsplash instead of inside or up against my cabinet fronts. Planning to use as a day-to-day approach. For formal entertaining, would just not use it....See Moresundownr
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