Going towel barless in master suite? Please critique... (pic)

13 years ago

Sorry this is so long, I'm "thinking out loud" and not editing my thoughts too well!

This will be the first time DH and I share a bathroom so I'm trying to accomodate an unprecedented number of towels. :) In making sure I had the walls, closets, etc. where I wanted I've put myself in a position where fitting towel bars is going to be a challenge! Well, we could fit them, but they'd have to be very narrow.

Here are my thoughts. If you would, please tell me if I'm missing something obvious. I'm attaching a rough sketch of our bathroom. Red dots are where I plan to have double hooks. Green dots are towel rings.

Counter-clockwise from top left: double vanity, wash closet, my WIC, shower, DH WIC, corner tub.

The wall perpindicular to the shower entry, shared with DH's WIC, seems the best location for towel holders. I have placed two double hooks there. We could maybe fit a narrow towel bar there (I think the wall is about 20"), but we use three towels between the two of us and I don't want a triple bar (including multi-bar towel warmers). But I want us both to have immediate access to our towels when we open the shower door.

Is there any practical reason why using a bar would be better than using a hook, or is it just aesthetic since you can nicely fold towels on a bar?

Wet towels get kinda scrunched out along the bar anyway, especially on a double (which I've always had, and always end up hanging the rear towel and draping the front towel across) or even triple bar, so I'm thinking there's not much drying advantage.

Any thoughts?

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rlthomas7
13 years ago
I don't like towel bars either and don't use them. I use double hooks now, and will for our new bathroom too. I do think that maybe you have a few too many, but if you see the need, then go for it. I think we'll have three total - two will always have the towels on them and one will be right beside the shower so that you can put your towel there and get it right when you come out.

I do store my robe in the bedroom though - 'cause that's where I take it off and get dressed!
avesmor
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13 years ago
Now that you mention it, it does kinda look like hook overkill! Bathroom with chicken pox. :)

There are 4 double hooks in the room proper, and I'm thinking about removing one of the ones between the corner tub & entrance (pocket doors). That would leave 3 - two by the shower (must haves) and one by the tub.

The others are on the backs of closet doors (I keep my robe in the bedroom too, but I have a warm one and a cooler one, so usually keep the unused one on the back of the door). The set of 4 in a row in my WIC... one for fashion scarves, one for fashion necklackes (one prong for short, one prong for long -- good jewelry is kept in my nightstand), one for TBD, and one for hanging tomorrow's outfit. I always pick out tomorrow's clothes the evening before, and had an outlet placed near the closet entrance for my clothes steamer. Thought that last hook would be a good "steaming station". Those hooks would be about 12 - 14 inches apart.

Thanks for the feedback!
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dianalo
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I did a google search for "free standing towel rack" and came up with this:

http://www.google.com/images?q=freestanding%20towel%20rack&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1272&bih=605

It might be a good solution if you have floor space but not wall space.
rlthomas7
13 years ago
Oh, and every time I read the title of your post, I read "going braless" instead of "going barless"

You'd probably have gotten a few more replies if you wrote braless!
vampiressrn
13 years ago
LOL :-)

I think the free-standing towel bars are also another option for you. I don't have any bars in my master, but do have two rings for the vanity. I often wonder what to do with my bath towels and they end up on the back of my chair. Will look forward to other suggestions here too.
pricklypearcactus
13 years ago
I have no experience with hanging towels on hooks. However, growing up our bathroom had to accommodate four towels so we stacked two towel bars on a single wall with approximately 30" in between the towel bars. You could stack two or three short towel bars on the wall outside of your DH's WIC. Here's an image of what I mean by "stacking" towel bars. You could even stack two towel bars with one of the towel bars being a double towel bar (triple seems overkill).
gayl
13 years ago
A couple of years ago we took out our towel bars and put in hooks and have loved it. Especially great in the kids bath because they don't have to fold the towel up, they can quickly throw it on the hook. Will never get bars again.
User
13 years ago
This is what I've done.

They make a triple folding hook. When not in use, it can fold flat against the wall. I love the two I have. One is on the back porch where we hang the binoculars and the raincoats.

The other folding hook is in...or WILL be in the new master bath when that is finished. Here is a picture of the hook mounted on the old wall as a test.

And here is a towel bar, sold by Pottery Barn as a magazine rack for the bath, but perfect for several towels. It also folds out of the way, or "fans" out to let a towel dry better. I wish I'd gotten two of them while they were on sale. Very strong and really pretty. I can see it also used in the water closet for keeping neat magazines.
bigdoglover
13 years ago
We had hooks instead of bars in one house we bought and I thought the towels didn't air out enough and got stinky real fast because the fabric bunches up at the hook and can't air out.

Having said that, I took all the towel bars down in our bathroom and put them up on a blank wall in the walk-in closet, that is where we hang our towels to air out. I like it very much. No messy towels to look at, and plenty of room on the walls for something prettier.

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