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Where do you hang your towels?

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Stiltons · 11/10/2019 09:31

Sorry for the super boring thread but I'm being driven mad with DP and DD drying their towels by hanging them over doors. I cant shut any doors!

We do have towel rails in the bathrooms but they are tiny (with no room to hang a large towel over and no wall space for more rails) and there seem to be a lot of towels!

Does anyone have a magical trick for this?!

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MrsPear · 11/10/2019 09:38

Yes hooks in bedrooms. But we are comfortable to walk areound in towels - plus dressing gowns in winter,

jomaIone · 11/10/2019 09:50

Over door hangers in the bathroom and bedroom! Looks rubbish but better than over doors!

SpoonBlender · 11/10/2019 10:02

Rails on the back of doors?

We have a standing rack for three towels in the bathroom and a radiator-hung rail for another. Then we use doors as drying space. Some shut that way happily and others are almost always left open anyway.

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boringisasboringdoes · 11/10/2019 10:04

Over the bannister. Failing that over doors. Best way to get air to them

Damntheman · 11/10/2019 10:10

We have only a small two towel rail too but four towel users so we got hooks to have on the rail for towels to hang on and that works well! Or get one of those sets of hooks that hangs over the top of the door (without preventing the door closing). Towels over doors would drive me mad too, I'd also be concerned about warping.

Windydaysuponus · 11/10/2019 10:12

Adults- back of the bathroom door.
Dc - floordrobe....

PenelopeFlintstone · 11/10/2019 10:13

I’ve got a freestanding timber quilt hanger in my bedroom. It’s attractive in its own right. I hang towels on that.

boringisasboringdoes · 11/10/2019 10:15

Sorry I have had trouble with links lately but how about a

Lefiheit Rollfix 150 Triple Longline Wall-Mounted Washing Line

Over the bath (this ones from John Lewis)

Oldraver · 11/10/2019 10:16

We have our own towel radiators bt DS's usually is on the floor then moans it's damp Grin.

Sometimes we put them over te tank in the airing cupboard.

I used to keep the indoor ladder in the airing cupboard and that was great for drying/airing towels etc

WooMaWang · 11/10/2019 10:19

There are hooks on the back of the doors in the upstairs of my house. I wish DS1 would use his and not his floordrobe though.

notso · 11/10/2019 10:19

The kids have radiator hangers
I use the towel radiator in the en suite, DH uses the bedroom radiator.

Wannabegreenfingers · 11/10/2019 10:26

We have hooks in the airing cupboard and the children have a hook each on the back of their bathroom door

WhispersOfWickedness · 11/10/2019 10:35

Banisters for the DC, hook on back of bathroom door for DH and radiator airer in the bedroom for me.

Pavlova31 · 11/10/2019 10:45

A clothes maid (or two) in a room with a dehumidifier and door closed.Dry in about an hour if very damp .

Waspnest · 11/10/2019 10:46

Radiator hangers (cheap LIDL ones) for me and DH in our bedroom (because the en suite doesn't have a radiator) and the heated towel rail in the bathroom for DD. Towels just chucked on the floor would drive me mad.

Orangecake123 · 11/10/2019 10:54

draped on the radiator. Grin

Pavlova31 · 11/10/2019 11:11

For me that is the lounge .

ProseccoIsTheAnswerHere · 11/10/2019 11:29

Can I just ask, how many towels does everyone own?
i have a shit ton and i'm sick of it

isseywithcats · 11/10/2019 12:38

one over the shower screen as it doesnt go up to the ceiling and the other one on a towel rail over the radiator with the windows open to stop the bathroom steaming up

ShinyGiratina · 11/10/2019 12:51

Over the bannister. Drives DH around the bend but he's not the one doing family laundry (just does his own and it's his own problem when everything goes that shade of grey) and it keeps the towels much fresher for longer.

Stiltons · 11/10/2019 16:37

Thanks everyone! Am now the proud owner of many over door hooks. Will see if they get used!!

Prosecco - a shit ton here too but we never seem to have enough. DH has 2 showers a day and uses 2 towels for each shower, I use 2 towels for my shower and the kids use 1 each. So we have 8 towels drying at once.

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Oblomov19 · 11/10/2019 17:02

Bannister

Bloodybridget · 11/10/2019 17:41

Two towels for a shower? And your DH uses two for his first shower and two different towels for his second shower? Gosh. No offence intended, if that's what you feel you need!

If it's a nice sunny day we often hang our towels on the line to dry and air. Otherwise, towel rad for one, over banister for the other (only two of us here).

Stiltons · 11/10/2019 18:12

I have a small towel for my hair and a larger towel to wrap round myself and DH is very tall so he wraps one round his waist and has one over his shoulders. I had no idea this was more than other people! Should I try and change our habits?!

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YogaLite · 11/10/2019 19:51

Don't use hooks over the doors unless u want to damage the paint on the doors like I did. They look practical but create more work long term.

Self adhesive hooks on tiles maybe?

We have heated ladder type towel rail/radiator.

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