Fridge handle since dw doesn't have a handle and oven is too far away. It's not a great solution though.

Handle on the oven. I have a small galley too. No space on the counter. LOL

On the dishwasher handle, on the oven door handle and sometimes, if the kitchen is cleaned up and "closed" for the night, I drape a clean one over the apron of the sink for tomorrow.

Spread out over the kitchenaid mixer (in the lifter cabinet.) I also have a small galley.

On my oven handle. In our old kitchen, we had an over the door hanging bar. We had it placed a cabinet door below the sink

Oven handle, or put a command hook or towel bar on the inside of the cabinet door under the sink or if there are upper cabinets next to the sink put a command hook on the side of the cabinet

My sink cabinet is slightly recessed, and in addition the doors have a recessed panel. The knobs are on the frame of the door, and on the recessed panel I have a long pull that makes a perfect towel bar for the hand towel. No, the damp towel has no effect on the oil-based cabinet paint.

The dish towel, on the other hand, is on the other side of the room, hanging on a hook on the end of a cabinet run. My dish towels are long so they just don't fit where the hand towels are.

Hand drying towel on pull out freezer handle and dish drying towel on oven door handle.

I use an over the door towel holder but put on my pull out pantry which is right behind the sink. I put felt pads on the back where it rests on the front of the door because it was a bit too wide for the depth of the door, and to protect the front from scratches.

I just lay mine on the counter. Tried hanging in on the oven/fridge door, even had a hook on our island but our dogs would grab it and hold it hostage for a treat. They still counter surf and grab the towel if it isn't way back where they can't reach it.

Mushcreek, I love the towel cow! I had to laugh at this topic as I just bought a new dishwasher and made sure to get on with a bar handle so I had a place to hang my dish towel! I have a hook for it, but the hand towel usually just lays on the counter. To keep the dish and hand towels separate, I've trained my family that the plaid towels are the hand towels, all others are dish towels and NOT for hands. It mostly works, so I've given up on keeping the hand towel hung up.

Oven handle. I actually like how it looks.

My kitchen is also very small. Sink at one end under a window. I have a hook on the window trim on each side, and that is where I hang my dish towels. They always fall off the DW and Oven handle when I open them.

I have a vintage glass towel bar, mounted on the side of the island across from the sink. I also hang the microfiber mat on the bar. Any towel already out is a hand drying towel. Dish drying towel (I rarely use one because I like to air dry the hand washables), comes straight from the drawer, then becomes a hand drying towel.

Oven handle. I also have a bunch of towels that my Grandma made (and she passed away 25 years ago) - they have a crocheted top, with a loop and button to hang over a drawer pull or handle. One of those is next to the sink, for drying hands.

Over my shoulder. It's the only place I can find it.

Towel Pig! :D

I have on the wall next to the sink a stainless horizontal paper towel holder that is open on one end. I fold two dish towels over it and hang a dish scrub brush from it.

It's all color-coordinated. :-)

Side of refrigerator since it isn't too far from the sink. I found a lightweight towel ring and glued a magnet to the back (sides are magnetic).

Glad you posted this OP! I've been mulling this over in my kitchen too. I don't have any appliances with handles near my sink. My only options are to install an extra long handle on a nearby cabinet door or on the side of one of the cabinets above the sink.

I worry, though, that the repeated exposure to water will cause damage to the wood.

I found a magnetic towel rack and it is on the side of the fridge which is just 20 inches to the left of the sink. This helps keep water from hands from dripping on my wood floor. I have another one on the oven handle - a bit far away but it seems we need two. Before I found the magnetic one, I did the same as maries and glued magnets to the back of a regular towel rack.

On my freezer drawer handle. I tried the DW handle, but people opened the DW w/o taking the towel off and it would end up on the floor! So back to the freezer handle!

If there are two, the second one goes on the Warming Drawer handle - but it's not convenient.

I don't use my oven handles except at Halloween & Christmas b/c the oven is in the straight line-of-sight from the front door. I have cute towels for Halloween & Christmas, so I'm willing to have them there sometimes.

This is a very common topic, btw. So, if anyone is interested in previous threads that address this, see below!

2007:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2697711/where-to-hang-wet-dishtowel

2008:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2682233/ot-kitchen-towel-hanging-on-the-oven-door-survey

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2625203/dish-cloths-and-towels-what-do-you-do-with-them

2009:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2680641/where-and-how-do-you-hang-your-cloth-dishtowels

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2487796/where-do-you-hang-your-cloth-hand-towels

2010:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2576498/where-do-you-hang-the-dish-towel-in-the-spanking-new-kitchen

2011:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2588036/practicality-questions-what-did-you-do

2012:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2532833/where-is-your-dish-towel

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There are others, I just posted a few from over the years.

I love my dancing cows towel rack. It gets knocked over occasionally. One guy has lost a horn.

Have a towel bar on the end of the island. DH insists that it's too far away so he leaves (multiple) towels on the counter by the sink. He's home all day while I still work. I come home to balled up towels all over the counter. Drives me crazy so I'm constantly folding. One of these days when he tells me I do something that he doesn't like, I'll share this with him.

Sorry for the rant. Tough day at work.

Small kitchen, so dishwasher and oven door. I like Jane's solution, though, or if I needed to I would buy one of those cute Ikea Fintorp rails or an appliance pull that matches my other pulls to put on the wall or cabinet above the sink.

Mine hangs off a nearby drawer pull right now. I think when I move, it will hang off the interior of the lower cabinet main sink door.. On a do-hickey I put there for horizontal-lying drying cloths

I love the towel cows! I'm picky about counters with stuff sitting on them so my towel hangs on the pull on my garbage pull out so it's accessible from both sinks (prep sink is just out of view here on the island), though I'm in the kitchen A LOT so mostly when I'm cooking the towel sits on the island counter corner shown in the photo so I don't have to go to the extra effort of reaching down so often for the towel. I rinse/wash my hands very often while cooking and prefer dry hands when working. If I'm cooking for big party, I tuck the towel in my apron ties.

When planning the kitchen, I expected to buy a large towel bar and install at the end of my island cross from the DW. (The DW has been replaced since.)

I couldn't find a towel bar that coordinated well enough with my RH pulls so I skipped the towel bar. If RH had a matching appliance pull, I would have bought it for this spot.

I use this cheapey little plastic gizmo I've had for more than thirty years. My GCC was horrified when I put it on the side of the prep sink cabinet in my brand new kitchen, but I love it. It holds three towels out of the way and my husband doesn't have to fold them (he has better things to do than fold dish neatly, or so I have been informed).

I can't remember where I got it. I might have brought it home from Switzerland. Maybe Conran's decades ago in Philadelphia. I stuck it on with heavy duty double-sided tape this time.

I found some similar towel holders on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Class-Professional-Stainless-Triple/dp/B0001IX1Z2

https://www.amazon.com/Tatkraft-Strong-Adhesive-Triple-Stainless/dp/B019WKREPC

I don't hang towels. Since my towels are used like paper towels, I toss them in the washing up container once used. If I need a new one, I grab a new one. I do have a Blomus hook in my shower that has double sized sticky tape to install it. The beauty of this hook is that it is really small and can be removed when you no longer need it.

Good luck!

I bought this kind of towel rack from Amazon. I didn't want to hang anything over the wood finish of the cabinets, and hanging it from my dishwasher handle just didn't work--it would drag the floor when the dishwasher was opened. My sink is in my island, so no walls nearby. I knew I would never be good about hanging it under the sink, so this works for me. The brand I got is pretty "stiff", I have the two rings folded up all the way so my standard kitchen towels can hang without dragging on the counter.

I do still have a towel pig! The pig survived the flood lol.

I have this towel "hook" that I bought at a local artisan's cooperative in the town where my daughter lives. I like having something close to the sink, but DH would rather drip across the aisle to use the towel at the end of the island that is hanging on a large pull.

It's always been on the oven handle. However, I will probably start leaving it on the sink cabinet handle.

The double ovens are just on the other side of the dishwasher from the sink. So I hang one towel on each handle. I change them out seasonally as decor.

We have one of these wooden towel racks that swivel. It is mounted to the frame of the window over the sink. There is usually a towel hanging from the handle of the range on the other side of the room too. I have had little success in training my family to use specific towels for hand v. dishes. I like the idea of patterned v. solid....