if you havent got an airing cupboard were do you dry/keep your towels and stuff??

[Tahlulla]

we are moving house and the house we are going to does not have a very big bathroom so we are having it redone and maybe a combi boiler, but i am really going to miss somewhere to store towells and sheets and somewhere to dry clothes that cant be tumbledried, does any one have any solutions?

Washing line. Clothes horse. Radiators. Set of drawers.

hey sarky!!, i just wanted some advice for doing something similar in the bathroom,a warm place to store things and not have to have clothes draped everywhere and somewhere warm to store towells.

I wasn't being sarky!

I use a clothes horse or line to dry and we have a big set of shelves where I keep the towels. We have about 10 good towels and seem to get through them all in a week!

washing line, clothes horse over bath, large trunk at end of bed or underbed drawers

I never had warmed towels in my life till the current house, didn't do me any harm.

If you are redoing the bathroom consider either a heated towel rail or a long low radiator with a long towel rail above, depending on your wall space.
We have two 80cm ones of these above a low radiator - space for 4 bath sheets.

good idea!! maybe have that infront of one of those modern radiators in the bathroom, will have to keep it tidy though at least with an airing cupboard you can close the door!!

Before I moved to this house I didn't have an airing cupboard so kept all linen and towels in drawers under the bed.

As for drying in the summer everything on the live outside but in winter I use a clothes horse in the spare room or for bigger things they go over the banister on the landing or over a door top.

You can get retractable clothes lines for the bathroom for when it's raining or you don't have a garden.

We have no airing cupboard; clean towels are kept folded in a basket in the bathroom and we have a big towel rail type radiator where we hang the damp ones.

You will usually find some sort of non tumble dry clothing on my radiators in the rest of the house.

Clean sheets are kept in a pile in the wardrobe but this is a pita; really would like an airing cupboard!!

thanks everyone!!

Towels are kept in a wardrobe
I dry on an airer indoors in Winter/ line in Summer

bathroom floor

Towels dried in tumble dryer (yes, terrible for environment, but a necessary evil in this household).

Towels and sheets kept in an armoire dedicated to linens.

Same as puppymonkey with the addition of a heated towel rail in the bathroom. Very of SofaQueen and her armoire!

custardo - sounds like my bathroom.

We have built-in wardrobes in our bedroom and had shelves put in a narrow one which I store all the towels, sheets etc.

Never tumble dry around here - on the line in summer, on clothes horse in winter. Hall cupboard for towels, and all bed linen lives in a drawer in the room they belong in.

Wouldn't go back to a cavenous airing cupboard now we have the space that a combi boiler gives us!

Towels and sheets dried in tumble drier (nowhere else to dry them and no radiators), then kept in a drawer under the spare bed.

Another option (which I haven't tried myself, so inviting comments!) might be to just put a dehumidifier near the clothes you need dried but can't use a tumble drier for.

Heh! at Custardo.

at custardo !!

Extra towels kept in drawer in bed. Towels IN USE ( I am very anal about this and FLIP MY LID if towels are used out of sequence) are kept in relevant bathroom.

we keep sheets and towels in the drawers in our bed. The kids sheets etc are kept in their wardrobes, although this is mainly coz dh once said he hadn't re-made dd's bed as he wasn't sure which sheets were her's so I said that from then on her bits would be in her room not making her bed my arse, lazy git TRY READING THE LABELS!!!

Washing gets tumbled dried mainly but if it can't be then it goes on an airer in the dining room.

also, if you haven't got an airing cupboard, where do you put your dough to rise?

why, on the back of the Aga, of course

(actually I put it on the kitchen table next to the radiator)

ahh. You clever person

We have no airing cupboard. The idiots who "renovated" this house put it inside a wardrobe with no access. I put towels and bedding in a chest of drawers. A pain to get out. I'm not sure you should be drying stuff in cupboards anyway. The damp will damage plaster and create mould on walls and towels.