I have no towel bars in either bathroom. In the one that we use daily for showers, there are decorative hooks for towels. In the upstairs bath, there is a decorative hook for a handtowel. We don't use the tub, so no need for a towel bar there.

If you don't hang a towel bar (and I think that is fine) where would you put towels to be used by bathers? Stacked on the edge of the tub? Do you have a place for a couple of hooks or a shelf if need be to hold towels?

I only use my towel bars for decoration. I have the nicer towels hanging on them that we don't use. The daily towels are usually hanging on a small hook on the back side of the door. (Command Adhesive is now making really nice metal ones) Or sometimes we drape a wet towel over the top of the shower but it doesn't stay there long.

Here is a link that might be useful: Command Adhesive Metal hooks

We don't have a towel bar in the master bath, either. We used a stand instead. If you go that route just make sure it's tall enough so the looped towels don't drag on the floor.

Here is a link that might be useful: towel stand

We have a towel stand in MBR and hooks in the other. I plan on replacing the stand with a warming stand.
HTH

I hate towel bars! We use a robe hook for a hand towel in our powder room and kids' bathroom. In our master bath we have 2 towel rings for hand towels. For the bath towels we use, we all hang them on hooks on the back of bedroom doors.

I have a friend who only has hand towel rings by the sink in all her bathrooms. This is because she has installed towel racks on the back of every bedroom door. Each person is responsible for getting clean towels from the linnen closet or their room. They are also responsible for getting their dirty towels to the laundry room.

As a frequent guest, I love this! No soggy towels in the bath or wondering if someone else has used mine!

No soggy towels is great! We don't hang ours after use, but throw them in the dryer so they are dry and fluffed every day.

No towel bars!

Use hooks instead. The towels look better and dry better, and take up much less space!

Lots to choose from; these are ours:

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Didn't put a towel bar in any of the baths in our new build. We have decorative hooks on the back of the door to hang towels so they'll be at hand before showering and to hang them right after. Clean towels are kept in linen closets in each bath.

We do have towel rings near each sink, and we put towel hooks on the door of the guest bedrooms so folks can keep track of their own towels.

I really like Les's idea of fluffing up the towels in the dryer after each use.

You all are GREAT thanks for the advice!!!!!

Of course I will be back for more...

I want to use double hooks, similar to what mclarke posted above, but don't know how many I can put up. For those of you with hooks behind your bathroom or bedroom doors, do you have one or two double hooks?

Thanks!

My friend has 2 hooks on the back of each door. The kids all use 2 each shower (1 for body & 1 for hair). The guest room also has 2.

I should also probably note that she has decorative hollow core doors. She mounted a routed edged board to the cross stile at the top of each door w/ an anchor bolt & covered the bolt head w/ a wood plug. This all got caulked & painted & blends right in. She then mounted the hooks into this anchored board. No chance of these puppies falling out!

I purchased a metal "quilt" rack" from Kirklands for about $20 and use that for towels. This holds several towels etc. We also have hooks on the back of the door in other bathroom. I would hang the picture and forget the towel rack.

I took out my towel bar and replaced it with a shelf over a row of hooks.
Messier, but more useable for me.

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In one bathroom without towel hanger, I used little decorator hooks for small towels and a blanket rack which I got at Linens-n-Things years ago somewhere in the northeast, cannot remember where but we were on vacation and I saw it, and bingo, it went in my SUV.

They are those decorative hooks that you hang largest plants on.

"I want to use double hooks, similar to what mclarke posted above, but don't know how many I can put up. For those of you with hooks behind your bathroom or bedroom doors, do you have one or two double hooks?"

Meg, it depends on what kind of door you have. Is it solid wood or hollow-core? Or is it a panelled door?

mclarke,

They don't sound hollow so I think they're solid. But they're panelled doors. Do you think I can use two double hooks?

We had two towel bars when we first moved here. The first went about 4 years ago when we replaced the bathroom window and had to go a little bit larger. We relocated the two towels that hung on that bar to hooks on the back of the door. We lost the second towel bar about 2 years ago because the towels just weren't drying on the back of the door. I came up with the idea of using hooks. We had a piece of pine here and I just had DH screw the board into the wall and mount 4 hooks on it. I haven't regretted once! Much easier to deal with and the kids can actually hang their own towels!