I'm going to be dealing with this problem soon. have no idea which way to go...

what if it's just me who doesn't hang up the towel? will have to stand myself in a corner. or something.

If you use longer towels, there is no need for the towels to come off the ring for hand drying. Mine are 22 inches long.

Yes! I use a hook for the exact reason you mentioned. I love it. I have a hook in both my powder room and my kids' bathroom. Oh, and in my laundry room! I just use regular hand towels. I have a cute decorative hook in the kids' bathroom (probably meant for a key or a leash -- it's a pewter heart with a hook at the bottom) and in the powder room, I just used the "robe hook" that coordinated with the other hardware in the room.

I thought about the same options in my tiny bathroom. I went with the hook so I could take the towel off easy and hang it back easily - I had a ring in my last bath and I like the hook better. I also think it looks just as good, just a little more casual.

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.

In our new home, we are using bar-style toilet paper holders for the towels by the sinks. (see link below)

In our guest baths (2) which are used when our kids/grandkids visit, we are using a trim boards with robe hooks mounted on them all along one wall in each bathroom for their bath towels. In the old house, there was never enough towel bars for all 14 of their towels, so we're trying this. Hopefully it solves the problem of wet towels on the dressers, hanging over the doors, and on the floor.

Here is a link that might be useful: Toilet paper holder

DesertSteph wrote: "what if it's just me who doesn't hang up the towel? will have to stand myself in a corner. or something."
Well I'd certainly say so!

Here is a link that might be useful:

Just: Here's a pic of the robe hooks on the trim board. I don't know yet if they will work since we haven't moved in yet, but I figure if the towels slide off I will sew a loop in the middle of each towel. Each board will have six robe hooks...one for each of the guest baths. Sorry for the poor quality of the pic. I'm spending some time with son and family in Co Springs, and this is an emailed pic from DH.

I am deciding between a ring and hook too. It is for the kids bathroom in our new house, which didn't come with anything to hang towels on. What might be easier for 2 toddlers to hang the towel back up again?