Keep towels nice and neat on wall hooks by looping your towels on rings before hanging.

I prefer a bar so a towel can fully dry and be reused without getting mildewed. I prefer a hook for my bath robe.

Hooks for our bath sheets and rings for hand towels.

We think hooks look a little edgier. Definitely hooks.

Towel bars are great for larger spaces, but hooks are ideal for a small bath. Rings are a good fit near a small sink as well.

For small bathrooms, like mine, vertically placed hooks near the shower take up much less room than towel bars.

I like a hook near the shower where I hang my robe and place my towel for when I get out of the shower. But then I hang my towel on a towel rack to dry. Even in my children's small bath, we have space for a robe hook and two towel bars (one across from the toilet, next to the tub and one behind the door).

You can hang lots more towels from hooks than bars. Family never folds towels "right" on bars. Hooks look neater.

Hooks for bathrobe, and for towel to be used for drying, hand towels on rail, other clean towels in a basket.

I was thinking about this for my 2 bathrooms: towel bar or a round towel bar. For the half bath in the mudroom I am getting a small towel bar and for my kids bathroom will get hooks. My kids would never fold the towels to look neat in their bathroom.

We vote towel hooks for sure! They can be used for either towels, robes, or anything else you might need to hang up in your bathroom. With towel racks, you are limited to just using towels. And with towel racks, you would have to go through the trouble of folding them "right" so that they sit nicely on the racks. With towel hooks, you don't have this obligation!

Both have their advantages and suit different usages. Our main washroom is used by guests as well..so we a hook behind the door for our daily towel use, two hooks on the wall with a decorative towel and a terry robe - which look decorative, and a double towel bar with lux towels for their use. Everyone in our family brings in their own towels for their showers and hangs them to dry in their bedrooms.

I prefer the heated towel bar, but it really depends on the design of the room and the space available to you. Hooks and bars come in many, many, styles and finishes. I'm sure you can find one of each that fit nicely into the design of your bathroom.

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We love the clean yet relaxed look of the towel hooks! As well as the functionality of them.

Today I installed a double towel bar. I've never had one before, but I think it's a classy look.

For practicality....hooks.....I'll be happy if I never see a towel bar again.

HOWEVER.... towel bars are great for me to add color and texture in a model home......they love it :) I used a hair band over this towel just to give it a little interest.

I vote for hooks too! Tip for renters -- You can use shower curtain hooks on your towel rod to create more function. Holds more towels, 3 or 4 and it's more practical and time-efficient than folding to lay over the towel bar. And don't forget the large command hooks :)

I prefer to use a towel warmer that has hooks. Myson and Amba make really nice ones with hooks and bar accessories so everyone is happy! I love my towel warmer when the days are cooler!

I've had both, towels dry better on a bar.

To me there is nothing attractive about towels hanging on towel bars so I use items like wrought iron plant holders - roll my towels and store them there. My fav is an old urinal that I stuff rolled towels into. Possibly quirky, but I like the uniqueness. My sister in law stuffs the into an open drawer of an antique night table. Of course one is left on the counter for guests

Towel bars in the guest bath that rarely gets used -- a neater look. We put hooks in the master bath when we redid it last year, and I'll never go back! I always hated the messy "throw the towel over the shower door" look.

We like a combo hooks, bar - the hooks are a lot easier for children!

Hooks, for sure. Few want to take the time to fold the towels properly to look good on a towel bar, and they definitely dry faster, great if you shower more than once on some days.

We had always had towel bars until we moved to a beach city in Texas. In that house we had hooks in the master bath. No folding towels after a shower or bath. Nice large hooks to hold our larger sized bath towels. I loved them. Until...I discovered a small amount of mold trying to grow on the wall behind the towels. Air did not circulate behind the towels because the hooks allowed the towels to touch the wall. Yuk! No more hooks for us. Every house since then has had towel bars.

I must be a serious slob because It would never cross my mind to fold a used towel on a rod. Just throw it over and move on, and towels for display? Sorry,Martha doesn't live here. We scared her away long ago.

Both are great!

We have 2 houses (one in Houston and one in the Hill County). Had bars in both houses. When we renovated, we replaced with hooks after a friend had replaced her bars with hooks and said the towels dry faster. I agree. The towels dry much faster. I agree that a towel that is not folded on a bar may dry faster, but neither of my master baths are big enough to hang two towels without folding. Also, when choosing hooks, be sure to get hooks that leave sufficient space between the hook and the wall so your towels are not resting against the wall.

Towels on hooks look messy to me.

Bars are space hogs, but I think it's the best way to get the towels to dry the fastest. But if the hook is farther away from the wall (it's bigger) it might not make a difference.

Has anyone tried these Avanti hooks from Rohl? I'm wondering if bath towels will stay put on them. I bought the towel bar, but it is too big for the space—the towels will hang over the light switch. Also, it's big for one towel, but not quite big enough for two and I have a small bathroom. I bought two of these hooks for the back of the door, but am now thinking of buying a third and putting them on the wall for the towels instead.

Lauren, we have similar, and they work fine. The towels stay on the hook.

Thanks so much.

My experience is towel bar=faster drying but,might be location - experience is with towel bar close to heating vent :)

One bar for clean towels to be used by a newcomer/guest. Hooks, or in our case, vintage coat tree for wet towels.

We use double towel bars and drape a towel over both bars. Dries fast.

Heated towel rack of course

Both are great options

Why not both?

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I can barely stand to look at a towel bar - especially an EMPTY one.

Um, where's the "Just throw it over the top of the door as you leave the bathroom" option? :-D

I have a very large bathroom with minimal wall space for towel racks. We tried hanging hooks on the back of the door to the toilet room, but towels are not drying; I tried the hooks in the closet, and still no complete drying. I have concluded that even though hooks look nice, they are very impractical. I am going to try a towel stand.

@whalenma, we also have minimal space. I decided hooks next to shower door and towel bars on other end of bathroom near walk in closet. Keep dry towels on hooks for easy access after shower, then hang wet towels on towel bar to dry. Rotate daily!

We have 3 boys (teens) all swimmers in a small bathroom. We are thinking two hooks each (bathroom towel and pool towel) how far apart to space hooks?

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I have combinations: circular towel ring for my face towel next to all my sinks; towel hooks near the showers for shower cap and towel bars for the larger body towels.

It's all a personal preference. I typically recommend a towel warmer in a bathroom. They aren't as expensive as you think! Make sure that all the finishes match:)

I like the idea of a towel bar 30" to spread out lengthwise, no folding as others have said, to thoroughly dry bath towel between uses, hooks for another towel to use and a robe. Hooks here the towels don't dry completely. I like the towel warmer idea.

It’s just my husband and I but we have four hooks on a backer board. After a shower I hang my towel over two hooks and it drys out great.

We have had a towel warmer for about 20 years now, and when traveling that is (next to my mattress) the thing I miss most. We have a towel ring at the sink, but I would only ever recommend that for a hand towel because nothing else would dry on there. Otherwise I like the casual look of hooks too.