We added towel bars in bedrooms at the family summer house. It is a good idea. Actually like the idea of hooks even better. Check Ikea for options.

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I would get some cute hooks. We rented a house for a week this year and they had a bunch of lake-themed hooks (boats, if I remember right), for us to hang up our clothes on one of the walls of the room.

I vote hooks too. They seem more fitting than towel bars.

If you have towel bars, they can double as drying racks for swim suits and hand-washing. You might consider over-the-door racks if you won't need them all the time, or a towel stand like a quilt stand that can be moved (to by the heater!) or used also for blankets.

We have towel hooks (not bars) on the inside of every bedroom door in our house, because we have small bathrooms with no walls for towel bars.

same as Sueb wrote, back of doors at lake house.

Bars or hooks, but yes, it's a good idea!

Sounds like a good idea, and it helps everyone keep track of their towel.

Thank you for the responses. I love the idea of hooks.

We have pretty wooden pegs on the walls and also over the door (not pretty, but utilitarian) towel racks for our 2 lake house guest bedrooms. Its an absolute necessity - there are no closets. (But it still doesn't stop one dear boy from grabbing whosever towel is handiest when he needs one!) And we also have an old wooden drying rack out on the deck for bathing suits and towels too. But still, most stuff gets draped all over the balcony railing :) But to be honest, we like that look - it means there are happy people swimming, boating, tubing and having fun.

I'd do what Janie suggests. Towels on hooks don't always dry quickly enough and can end up musty smelling.

Definitely a good idea. My only caution with pegs or hooks is what jab mentioned - the towels don't dry quickly. We have a quilt rack we use as a towel drying rack in our master. You could put them at the end of each bed.

Not at all odd, in fact it's common. And very practical.

Make sure the finish on the door is WATERPROOF so the hanging towels don't mess up the finish.

Hooks don't let the towels dry fast enough, and they end up muasty and still damp the next day,

I have stayed in rental places at the beach that had towel bars in the bedrooms. Just be aware that people will hang up wet suits so the door and the floor beneath needs to be waterproof.

I like the idea but can't bring myself to drill into doors for some reason. I have hooks that go over the top.

If towel drying is an issue, it is due to the thickness of the towel. I purchased IKEA bath sheets with loops for the kids as they went to college. Eventually I got myself one. It hangs in my closet on a hook. It has never had issues drying, and the co-eds never once complained either. We went for size over thick and luxurious. When DH finally remodeled his bathroom and basically turned the room into a shower we had no where for bars. We went with hooks. His towels are very thick and he has had issue with drying. I added the loops myself. Perhaps this is why towels that come with loops are thinner?

I had a towel bar on my guest bedroom and tiny bathroom doors, on the inside. And a hook centered at the top of the door, above the rack. In both cases, it came in handy and I got nice ones so it didn't look bad either.

I have heavy Turkish towels (bath sheets) from waterworks. They are heavy. They dry on hooks without problems on a daily basis. All my bathrooms do have vents that run for about 30 minutes a day during the shower. I find towel bars difficult to place more than one towel on at a time. Also, when you remove one towel from the bar, you take everything else with you. All my towels have loops built in them.

Good luck!

We have hooks on the backs of all bath/bed doors at our lake house. And use quilt racks in the bedrooms. We also use the railings for beach towels. So, when we are there, it's a mess!! But, I usually have a group of kids & tell them to use one towel for bathing & 1 for lake. I don't want to be doing laundry on my weekend time!!