I have towel rings.

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It meets DH's requirement for something that's away from the wall and is large enough.

This is Newport Brass model 16-09

I had to go with a towel ring because of space. I would have prefered a towel bar because I think the towels dry faster on a bar.

we have towel bars and towel rings in our bathroom and never use the towel rings because like chloe i think the towels dry much faster on a rail/bar.

I have both but have determined that I like my sister's hooks in her master bathroom better because of how easy it is to hang up the towel. She has a board that has hooks down the entire wall and it works wonderfully! I am hoping to do something similar in my new master bathroom (someday)!

Alicia

I never thought about the towel drying faster on a rod than a ring but it makes sense. I would really like to know which you think looks better next to the sink. I'm trying to make some decisions for my powder room. This will be the BR used by guests.

Not QUITE what you asked but I had hooks for all the towels in my previous house's master bathroom. So much easier and everything dried quickly. DH, wonderful as he may be otherwise, has a pathological inability to hang a towel straight on a towel rod :-) and I think towels on a ring look tidy for about five minutes - the other bath and half-bath had rings which drove me nuts. Unless the ring is fixed in place, if you remove the towel from the ring the ring bangs into the wall (this has been the case with all the towel rings I've had anyway, with a resulting dent in the wall behind) and much of the time it's haphazardly stuffed back into the ring after use, and if you use it while it's still on the ring it looks rather discombobulated afterward unless you're just delicately dabbing your fingertips. :-) Our current half bath has a towel rod at this time and it seems like I'm constantly straightening out a towel that's all crooked. Just put up a hook yesterday in the one full bath so the hand towel no longer has to share a rod with my bath towel.

This is MY experience, your mileage may vary.

I always use towel rings in power rooms and any area next to the sink.........mostly because of space. Another option for you would be the standing rings.

I went with a towel ring due to space

Neither - I have leaf knobs mounted on stained wood that act as hooks in the main bath. Way easier than the towel ring we used to have, or the bar in another bath.

Hooks are the only choice from now on as far as I am concerned.

We use the towel ring because the entire towel never gets wet actually. We dry our hands only on the front and change it out daily.

johnmari must have the same spouse I have. "DH, wonderful as he may be otherwise, has a pathological inability to hang a towel straight on a towel rod :-) and I think towels on a ring look tidy for about five minutes . . . "

In the last bathroom, I straightened his towel on its ring every time he used it. This time it's going to be hooks -- actually robe hooks -- and if they always look a mess, I'll sew loops on the towels!!

And yes, I do know this business of wanting straight towels is anal. I've been told often enough!

Okay, okay, we all agree...no matter how darling, all husbands and boys, in general, are slobs. I have 1-4 of them in my house at all times. I remember when we first built our house and my mom viewed my pretty powder room, she said, "are you going to let DH and DS use that room?"

Most of the darling men in my life are out of the house now, except for DH who in his words is "house broken". So I want to make my new-to-be-decorated Powder Room PRETTY and ELEGANT. Practicality aside, and pretending that the boys won't be using it, what do YOU as a woman like to see in a Powder Room you visit in someone's home? I'm still focused on rings or bars, but any other tips you would like to share for making the room interesting and inviting would be appreciated.

I like the look of a ring with a pretty towel in a PR.