How do you store your towels?

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Sorry for the extremely boring subject, I’d be surprised if anyone’s even opened this thread but here we go.

I have a new shower room and need some towel storage. I have a space 78cm wide and I'm struggling to find a wood cabinet to fit in my price range (would like to spend under £400).

So I’m now wondering if I just have shelves and fold the towels or put in baskets on the shelves.

Will they go mouldy with the humidity of the shower steam?

Has anyone else stored towels open in the shower room?

Thanks!

We have this in our shower room and the towels certainly don’t get mouldy . It’s a metal rack, which fits a large rolled bath sheet quite comfortably, but it does only hold four of them.

I keep them in a big stack on a table outside the bathroom so anyone can just take one as required.

Airing cupboard. Nice and warm.

Something like this? When you say wood, are you set on solid wood?

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-portsman-tallboy-bathroom-storage-cabinet/green/p4847090?s_ppc=2dx_mixed_home_BAU&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20155422167&gbraid=0AAAAAD2el1yoAEsfpJ2D1wG-RaZo3LdMu&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-LS4grGpkAMVPJhQBh29rxSeEAQYAiABEgKraPD_BwE

Or this?

www.cotswoldco.com/bedroom-furniture/wardrobes/single-wardrobes/pensham-white-painted-single-wardrobe/?xcm_campaign=Shoppin-Smart-Bedroom&cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=20429542294&cq_con=&cq_term=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x&cq_plt=gp&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20424921773&gbraid=0AAAAADSUgKlH2s8ph7itYAvYVOoFiYvwl&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-LS4grGpkAMVPJhQBh29rxSeEAQYDCABEgIEk_D_BwE

If you dry yourself on those and you roll them up again while they’re damp they’ll stink. My SIL has her towels like this - looks great but I never use them because they smell sour. I just use toilet paper to dry my hands.

I've never kept spare towels in the bathroom, always in the airing cupboard.

Airing cupboard or blanket box.

Dont have an airing cupboard in this house so they are in a big cedar blanket box. They are dried very well before going in there. Towels in use are out on electric towel rails, the downstairs loo is also a shower room so has heated rail in there too. Have a holiday house abroad that has a good size laundry and boiler room so linen and towels are stored in there. But I have put in electric towel rails in there too as they are pretty cheap to run and although the climate is warmer I like a warm bathroom and dry towels.

In use towels on the towel radiator/towel rail hung above said radiator.
Clean towels in linen cupboard on the landing.
Dirty towels in washing basket

Airing cupboard.
No way I'd keep folded or rolled up towels in a shower room.

We don't have an airing cupboard which is where both our parents always stored them! Currently we have ours in a storage bag under our bed but they will eventually need to be more accessible when the children are older and need to be able to help themselves, but I have no idea where that would be. There's only one tiny cupboard for the whole house and it is full with things like iron, ironing board, shopping bags, mop, and other large but communal things!

But surely that poster just meant she stores them like that…..not replaces them used there.

Clean towels also stored in a rack which hangs over the door. They don’t smell at all, but we have a good extractor fan which keeps humidity down.
towels in use go on the heated towel rail.

Towels in use go on the heated towel rail. Stored towels go in baskets in a built in cupboard in the bathroom. They stay lovely and dry in there (it’s not an airing cupboard) but I am also very hot on de-steaming the bathroom after each use (extractor on and window opened without fail, even in winter).

We have an IKEA under sink chest of drawers thingy and clean towels are stored there. Towels in use are hung up. I have given everyone 2 big towels each and that's all they get, though, so we only need storage for 3 or 4 large towels (and some hand towels). Towels for guests are stored in the guest room. I store older towels in a chest in my office in case they're needed. We don't have an airing cupboard, unfortunately.

Airing cupboard.

Like a PP we don’t have masses of storage so we went ‘up’ and have this. They certainly don’t get mouldy or even damp as we have a good extractor and we don’t as another PP suggested put them back wet It’s for storing clean towels.

Bathroom in very high humid bathroom with no windows. They don't get mouldy strangely enough. Even if left for ages. The only way is to try it

I think both posters are talking about clean towel storage, not using them and folding them back up?

I have a storage unit like the John Lewis one above, with two glass sides and door. The towels are artfully (!) folded on the lower shelves, toiletries and first aid in baskets above and an arrangement of perfume bottles on the top shelf. Spare toilet rolls in a basket on top.
Electric towel ladder for towels before and after. Highly recommended!

It’s close to the window so the glass lets light into the room. Fortunately my kids are old enough not to be a risk around non safety glass.

Just to clarify we definitely don’t put used wet towels back on the rack . It’s for storage of clean towels only.
The hand towels in the little basket are again clean , just stored in the little basket until needed.
Towels in use are on the heated towel radiator. Each person has their own colour towel so no one uses someone else’s.
Hope that makes things clearer.

In the hot press IYKYK

In the hotpress.

It depends how steamy your bathroom gets. My husband takes an hour so we must have doors or they’d be soggy.

We have this cheap one, but you can get wider ones and more upmarket wooden ones. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/nysjoen-high-cabinet-white-20470815/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic-shopping&utm_campaign=shopping_feed&utm_content=free_google_shopping_clicks_BathroomWater