POLL: Towel bar or towel hooks?

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8 years ago

Do you prefer a towel bar for your towels, or do you prefer to hang them on hooks in your bathroom?

VOTE and tell us about it in the comments!

Towel hooks

Towel bar

Other - tell us below!

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bruket

8 years ago

Heated towel bars for large towels and hooks for hand towels. I find large damp towels get ruined hanging from a hook.

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Comments (26)

kce3
8 years ago
Hooks are way better! No need to fold or arrange the towel--just hang it up, and a few hours later, check if it's dry. And you can hang 6 towels where maybe two would hang on a bar.
User
8 years ago
I prefer a towel ring. It's the perfect compromise between hooks, that look a bit locker roomy, and rails, that look better but take up a lot of space and need crumple management!
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Barry Higgs
8 years ago
I'm with kce3, hooks present more storage capacity and let the towels dry better.
poppistar
8 years ago
Freestanding to keep wet towels away from walls if the room is big enough.
ash4711
8 years ago
I've got a large airing cupboard in my bathroom and on the inside of the door we have fixed four rails for the towels, so no damp towels.
Heidi Freeman
8 years ago
Hooks are so much easier to use and take up less space.
163 hrd
8 years ago
i use hooks, and hammam towels that dry very fast.
Jo Leverett
8 years ago
Both. I also find large towels don't dry very well on a hook. The other half finds leaving his on the floor works fine.
teenytinyhouse
8 years ago
Both - towel rail for me and my partner's towels, and hooks for any guests (or dressing gowns) as the towel rail isn't that big!
k11agl
8 years ago
Me too would vote both - I use hooks to hold hand towels and bathrobes, and rail to spread out smaller towels that I use to dry my hair. Rails are good for general laundry drying too, especially if your room is on the moisture-high side.

Does anyone actually use a heated towel rail to put towels? My heated rail always get dusty VERY quickly so I'm never a fan!
annetteabroad
8 years ago
Towel hooks ruin towels and they end up falling off half the time. Rubbish! Rails for me every day.
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Sara Levy Designs
8 years ago
Towel bars are great if you are actually going to fold the towels and hang them properly every time you put the towels away. Otherwise if you get a good hook, the towels should dry faster.
tinoria
8 years ago
more drying power from bars. possibly hooks for small hand towels.
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e-Hardware
8 years ago
We prefer the hooks over here but it depends on the space. In small spaces hooks can be too much. annetteabroad has a good point about it ruining the towels though!
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User
8 years ago
Hooks are sure great and so easy to use, while bars need a bit more effort and definitely take more space. Nevertheless bars for me.
Joe Hurles
8 years ago
Depends on the room, some designs really suits towel bar, especially when the accessories are intrinsic to the design. Other times you just want to hide things on the back of a door, so both have their place.
patton_nicola
8 years ago
What about a radiator with horizontal bars
User
8 years ago
I like to use old quilt racks rather than towel bar. I found this great old brass one in a boot sale.
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Studio180°
8 years ago
Towel Bars look more organized for large bath towels
Barry Higgs
8 years ago
I've had a change of mind since I've had a tall radiator with horizontal tubular bars fitted in my bathroom-it acts as a heated towel rail and looks good too!
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space like this
8 years ago
Hooks are a bit different!
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Parable Designs Ltd
8 years ago
I think towels dry quicker on bars than hooks, especially if they're heated.
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Thomas G. Flynn TGF ARCHITECTURE
8 years ago
looks great
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Geyser Radiators
7 years ago
Towel hooks, they're neat and compact
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Homebits
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
both towel hooks and towel bars are great. towel hooks are ideal if there is limited space on the wall, but towel rails are great and can dry a towel faster if they are heated!

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