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To ask where you hang your wet bathroom towels?

101 replies

mumandmumber · 01/07/2026 22:14

To ask where you hang your wet bathroom
towels after use?

Our bathroom is tiny, so they end up on the bannisters. The house is ‘cosy’ size.. so it looks like a laundry 90% of the time.

OP posts:
Rainbowchicken · 02/07/2026 07:30

I have a 40kw tube heater on the floor of the airing cupboard which I keep on constantly and I hang them on hooks in this cupboard.

MiddleAgedDread · 02/07/2026 07:32

On hooks on the back of bathroom doors - but then I have 2 bathrooms, 4 hooks and only 1 bath towel (occasionally 2)

outdooryone · 02/07/2026 07:44

A rail on the back of bedroom doors. There's one on each door.

Theunamedcat · 02/07/2026 08:42

Over the bedroom doors in winter on the washing line in summer

msmolli · 02/07/2026 08:44

Heated towel rail/radiator. We leave it on all year round and it comes on when we heat water. Windows left wide open so not too hot in room but can turn off manually if heatwave.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 02/07/2026 08:46

We hang ours on our heated towel rail.

DanaScullysLegoHair · 02/07/2026 08:48

On one of those old-fashioned looking hangers with the multi-coloured balls on the hook part. It is screwed to a cupboard just outside the bathroom door.

I objected to the look of it at first as it seemed odd but I don't even notice them now.

Another tiny bathroom where the towels would never dry otherwise.

ByHangryHazelQuoter · 02/07/2026 08:53

Don’t use towels! I can’t stand damp towels hanging around. Each person gets a towelling bathrobe. Keeps in bedroom. Folded flannels by sink to dry hands.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 02/07/2026 09:21

Pansykavalier · 01/07/2026 22:21

Heated towel rail. Doubles as heating. Wouldn’t be without it.

Exactly this, when we renovated our shoebox bathroom this was a non negotiable for me. But ive seen an over door towel rail in lidl which I think would be useful when we have visitors.

Cuppachuchu · 02/07/2026 09:34

In the warm airing cupboard.
I did think of one of those lines you can put up over the bath but haven't so far needed one. If I have a few things I put the airer in the bath and open the window. Stuff dries quite quickly.

mumandmumber · 02/07/2026 09:39

We have a heated towel rail but we choose not to have in on summer and it doesnt fit all of our towels anyway…

I suggested hooks on backs of doors to DH but he insists its not efficient for drying them properly and I’m inclined to agree.

I think ultimately we just need to be more disciplined about returning them to the bathroom once they are dry instead of leaving them on the bannisters all the time as if they are a design choice.

OP posts:
8TinyToeBeans · 02/07/2026 09:57

We have one of those 'lean against the wall' ladder things for hanging towels on and it goes in the bedroom cause there's no room in the bathroom. Damp towels go on that.

mondaytosunday · 02/07/2026 10:10

How damp do they get? My bathroom is small too - you can’t even fit a full length bath in there - but the towel only gets slightly damp and goes back on the towel rail (which is a ladder radiator but it runs on the central heating so not on in summer).

LindorDoubleChoc · 02/07/2026 10:26

I hang mine over my bedroom door. No one apart from the people who live here ever goes upstairs in this house.

Washingforweeks · 02/07/2026 10:58

I have hooks that slide over my shower door they hang on there or the bannister

kaylot · 02/07/2026 11:09

Adult's towels in airing cupboard but the kid's towels just go in the washing machine each time. I do 1 load of waahing at 60 on the same preset program most but not all days

FrankSinatraonToast · 02/07/2026 11:14

If the weather is decent, and the towel doesn't need washing, then a used bath towel goes out on the washing line. If it's raining, it's draped over a normal clothes horse by an open window. Just me and DH (no kids) and we share towels. No idea why that's considered manky!

Lavender14 · 02/07/2026 11:15

I use our bannister as well or the shower door/ side of the bath when they're dry.

noworklifebalance · 02/07/2026 11:19

mumandmumber · 02/07/2026 09:39

We have a heated towel rail but we choose not to have in on summer and it doesnt fit all of our towels anyway…

I suggested hooks on backs of doors to DH but he insists its not efficient for drying them properly and I’m inclined to agree.

I think ultimately we just need to be more disciplined about returning them to the bathroom once they are dry instead of leaving them on the bannisters all the time as if they are a design choice.

Edited

Would you consider the quick dry microfibre bath towels? Obviously they are not fluffy hotel-style towels but they are soft and dry quickly and come in large sizes. They have the added advantage of not being bulky.

MyGirlJ · 02/07/2026 11:46

I live in a small house, so mine go over the landing bannister as well. Although, in the winter I do sometimes put my towel over my bedroom radiator to dry.

CalmerBlie · 02/07/2026 12:33

I put a small shaker peg rail on one wall and that works well

FunkyFringe · 02/07/2026 12:37

Planting · 01/07/2026 22:49

Straight in the washing machine.

Same here. Clean towel after every shower.

SadiraOfTyr · 02/07/2026 12:43

Rainbowchicken · 02/07/2026 07:30

I have a 40kw tube heater on the floor of the airing cupboard which I keep on constantly and I hang them on hooks in this cupboard.

40kW??? I don’t think so!

EllisIsEllis · 02/07/2026 12:45

We have hooks on our towel rail - can fit way more towels that way!

Teenagerantruns · 02/07/2026 12:51

Just back in bathroom on towel rail they really dont get that wet? Just me and DP.
When the kids were home we all had our own cour coded towels and they hung them wherever they liked( probley on the floor in thier rooms).
As always on these threads l never understand people washing towels after each use? Its like changing your sheets every day.

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