I have had the bottom one. it was a fine in the master. In the kids’ bath, they knocked it over constantly.

They tip over all the time , no one wants to have to fold and carefully hang the towel get a hook and in my powder room i do not use a hand towel but I do use disposable ones since I do not want to dry my hands on a towel a bunch of people have used . IMO towel hooks work best in all bathrooms.

That type of holder didn’t work for us, only a fingertip towel fit, and they were always wet. No place for a hook, but plenty of counter space. I got 2 wire baskets, one holds clean inexpensive washcloths - they make great one use hand towels - then they go in the second basket. It’s working great for us, and a dry “towel“ every time :). Guests like it, too.

I use the holders in picture 2 in my master and guest baths for cloth hand towels. No problems. It's not very difficult to fold a small towel and re-hang it. I hate hooks. They always leave a mark and it takes the towels longer to dry. Even if I'm using thick, soft disposable towels such as these, I always put out a cloth hand towel on the stand for those guests who prefer cloth.

@mrichter54 what a great idea! You could even just get inexpensive ones.

We use monogrammed paper napkins for our powder room. Sanitary and disposable.

mainenell, yes! Not the cheapest bundle at Dollar General but 4-$5, nice hemmed edges they are perfect for this use, the baskets were $5 from there, too.

I used gorgeous paper towel holders. At first I got the pretty paper towels bundled for about $5.00, but saw a paper towel holder in my friends house, and a hotel. Everyone loves it. Paper towels are clean, and economical.

Thank you, I love the idea!!

I don't have space for a hand towel holder either. Bad designer (me! ;) I think our previous hand towel was over the toilet and the general consensus was that was kind of gross.

I have a box of disposable hand towels (Kleenex brand) that I set out on the counter when we have guests over. I also keep a clean towel on the back of the door that my kids and I use for daily use.

If you and your guests have a sense of humor, these look like a lot of fun!

https://senseandhumor.com/products/hurry-back-guest-towels

The Container Store has this holder, I have it in my guest bath and I really like it.

Gamma, that’s so funny. It’d be a real conversation piece and I’m sure get a chuckle out of everyone!!

I find it hard to believe you don't have the wall space for a ring. Care to post the plan(s)? I'd be happy to suggest spots.

Global spending on paper towels for use at home (but not in office or public bathrooms) added up to about $12 billion in 2017, and Americans accounted for about $5.7 billion of that total. In other words, the U.S. spends nearly as much on paper towels as every other country in the world combined.

Perhaps the paper towel satisfies some deeper, uniquely American desire to be immediately rid of a problem, whatever the cost. “I definitely think they in many ways represent how Americans think in that people are obsessed with instant gratification,

Homes with lower relative incomes show greater reliance on reusable tools such as rags and cloths, “Meanwhile, homes with higher relative incomes rely more heavily on disposable options like paper towels.” Basically, Americans use so many paper towels because they can afford to.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2015 the country generated about 7.4 billion pounds of waste consisting of paper towels and other “tissue” materials, like toilet paper. “Generally speaking … anything disposable isn’t good for the environment, especially something that is used on a large societal scale,” ... in addition to the water and trees that go into making paper products and the fossil fuels it takes to produce and distribute them, it’s “a significant problem,” environmentally speaking, that so much paper ends up in landfills.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/paper-towels-us-use-consume/577672/

Contrary to your experience, we've always used a folded hand towel on the counter by the sink with no issues, but we don't have children at home. I use disposable guest towels in the powder bath, though.

what about one of those suction cup towel hooks? I use a few in my bathroom on the tile and love them. command hooks might work too. I never want a towel bar again. also, I tried one of those hand ones and hated it. most of my guests thought it was decorative and didn't seem to use it.....

Jen K.....some of us compost all of our napkins and paper towels.....they do not end up in the landfill.

you can get some really nice command hook type holders, metal and all. Peel and stick on the wall and hang the towel from it.

I have this same issue in both the master bath and hall bath/kids bath. I just use a folded hand towel. In the kids bathroom it gets replaced 1-2 times a day. I have no space for hooks because of the midcentury design (all windows and mirrors).

Maybe you can hang a hook or small rod on the vanity itself. I can't imagine there isn't anywhere for a towel.

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@nidnay.... I'm sure that 'some of us' equals an insignificant amount to counter the impact. Do you fish out the used towels from the bathroom basket, which would be contrary to the reason why people say they use them - sanitary?

You use them which means they're still derived from trees and processed through water intensive and polluting papermills, transported to stores so they can be used once.

Now with that being said, a hand towel has its own history of cotton farming, water use, dyes and more than likely international manufacturing. But it has a longer lifespan being reusable.

c'est la vie...

nidnay, gorgeous bath!!!

decormyhomepls, isn't it! I admit I haven't bought it yet, but I saw it and I thought it would be a riot with my girlfriends!

I can't believe there is NO spot. But if that's the case, the washcloth concept works well, decent ones from the discount stores. As long as you don't mind thirty or forty of them in your laundry each week.... from a one time use.

I like paper in a guest , especially in homes with KIDS )

As to how much paper we use in this country? We use more of everything. We wash more, eat more, work more, do more laundry, have more "democracy" in shopping options high to low priced, and the poorest soul living here , generally has more affordable conveniences available to them than anywhere else on earth. Which explains paper towels and a lot else as well. Don't look to me for an apology for wiping up spills with paper and a quick toss in the trash. I'm not filling this home or any other with useless junk destined for a landfill in a year.

@Jan.. and let them eat cake or in this case a Brawny paper towel.

LOL

As most people use the bathroom with the door closed, how about installing a towel rack on the back of the door? The standing racks are nice, but do they fall over if you grab/remove the towel without holding onto the base? I personally like a folded towel on the edge of the sink, but don’t have young kids, many guests or people using the guest bathroom who get the towels very wet.

Does anyone remember the counter pig in Kitchens around 18 years ago? Someone had a fairly large ceramic pig that she put on her kitchen counter to drape the hand drying towel on top of so that it could dry out of range of the kitchen mess, but still in an easy to reach position near the sink. It became a ”thing” for a while in the Kitchens Forum at Gardenweb.

I could see a character from one of the kids’ favorite books or movies standing in a pose with an arm (or tail or trunk or whatever appendage) extended to hold a towel. Enlarge a picture from a coloring book, cut it from a piece of wood on a bandsaw, mount it on a heavy base, and sand and paint and varnish it. I would suggest repurposing an action figure, but they have become so small, they could not even hold a fingertip towel.

Or get one of those “kids at play” warning figures that you put at the end of your driveway to warn the kids to not go past it and warn drivers to watch for kids. Don’t they have an arm extended? Something big like this would be on the floor, at the right height for little ones.

Look through your parents’ old decorative items for a big ceramic pig or goose. They were quite popular at one time. Pigs were often painted with flowers. A goose could hold spare towels folded across her back and the ”in use” towel would drape over her head.

Most people use paper towels in the kitchen, not the bathroom. They are used for cleaning, wiping up spills, in lieu of plates, covering food in the microwave, etc along with drying hands. And Americans have big freaking kitchens. Come on down off your paper towel soapbox, it can’t support the weight of your big head.