Anyone use hooks for bath towels instead of bars?
MiMi
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Hooks vs. bars: Help Single Dad w/ my towels!!
Comments (18)We have hooks and heavy 33x66 bath sheets and have not had any problems with them drying - I have found that they don't dry as well on bars because the towels have to be doubled over to fit on the bars if you don't have room for 36" bars. Double bars were even worse IME because there ended up being eight layers of thick fabric in a small area. Two towels on one double hook (Delta Victorian, not one I'd recommend) dry just fine. I live in coastal New Hampshire where it is downright malarial in the warm months and arid in the cold; towels are laundered once a week and we have no problems with funkiness. We do also have the issue of towels not being hung neatly on bars, and I think decorative towels are silly (I am pretty much a failure as a girly-girl!). :-) Here's a picture: One way to evaluate whether towels dry sufficiently on hooks where you live would be to get some of the cheap over-the-door hooks from somewhere like Walmart and give it a shot before installing anything permanent....See MoreWhat to use instead of towel rings?
Comments (3)We use the same type of hook as we have for the bath towels, and it works just fine. One of the reasons why we use hooks is that DH is rather halfarsed about putting his towel back neatly on a towel bar, and the list of reasons why I don't like towel rings is rather long. ;-) If the bar to the towel bar you've chosen is "loose" in the brackets (as opposed to screwing together, or all of one piece) you can cut it down with a hacksaw to the desired length. I have also heard of people using toilet paper holders, either the Euro kind where the paper slips onto a C-shaped bar or the conventional sort with a solid bar (pipe or painted dowel) inserted where the spring-loaded roller would be....See Moreanyone install hooks or towel racks inside the shower?
Comments (11)Pinch me--thanks for the photos. I'll have to look in the peg board section. I thought that lever suction cup looked really good, and the XO kitchen tools are pretty good, too. But sounds like folks have had some luck with some other suction cups, so I'll keep looking. In the photos in magazines and websites, you only see pretty tile walls, but the reality is that there is a lot of stuff you need in your shower. I see you have a shelf on the wall. I asked my contractor why people don't just have a shelf on the wall rather than building a bench, which people tend to use to put their bottles on rather than sit, and he said a shelf would be hard to do and would require a lot of support. But I see you got one to work....See Moretowel bar, towel ring or hook for hand towel by sink?
Comments (10)I mixed it up for different reasons. Master bath: hooks near shower & tub for bath towels, rings for hand towels @ sink. I'm really, really, really loving the hooks for the bath towels. I used double hooks, and I like that I can drape a towel over both "prongs" to help open it up for drying. Don't actually take the hand towels off the ring unless I'm swapping them for clean ones, so the rings are fine. Guest bath: towel bar at sit-in shower for bath towels, smaller towel bar at sink for hand towels. This was more of a space issue. It was a very typical "galley" type bathroom layout. I went with double towel rods so that each guest (generally my parents) could have two towels without taking up the entire wall. Hooks would have worked, too, but I wanted to be able to fold them over something and free up some wall space. The shorter towel bar at the vanity allowed space for two guest hand towels to reside on one wall, without taking up counter space. Half bath: Open ring for hand towel (because it was the best looking option that came in my faucet's line, and I wanted them to match). :) Hollywood bath (DD's): No towel bar, rings for hand towels. Her shower area is small and the only wall that would fit a towel bar is the wall the door opens up against. I didn't want to have to choose between open door or dry towels. So I bought an over the door hook, and really cute coordinating towels....See Morejrueter
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