Bathroom radiator or towel rail?

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We are redoing bathroom traditional white suite including separate shower and crackled glaze grey metro tiles. We initially thought of this towel rail, but the bathroom fitter says once the towel rails are on it will stick out too much as it is on the wall where the bathroom door opens directly onto it.

Now thinking of individual towel hooks with radiator under.

We haven't got a heated towel rail at the moment but on holidays have found we prefer to hang our towels on hooks as we do at home rather than try to get several onto the heated rail overlapping each other. We prefer large fluffy towels and alot of the rails aren't particularly generous. Not particularly wanting a modern chrome radiator as I am convinced it will be a pain to keep clean of water marks and not sure how it will fit with the room.

The bathroom is small so no real option to move the radiator(unless under sink and moving increases cost).

We are having this mirror above the sink which fits in with the bathroom style (the bathroom cabinets I have seen all seem too modern to fit in) and ideally need some storage so thought about this cabinet or the cheaper ikea equivalent next to the radiator on the same wall. Have to watch for width as we have the loo facing the door so don't want anything too close to the loo.

So after all that any thoughts/ideas on heating/storage my small family bathroom.

towel rails give out much less heat than radiators. When they are encased in a thick insulating layer of towels, even less.

Ordinary towel rails or rings above an ordinary radiator work well. You might consider an unusually long, low radiator so you can have more towels above it. With a TRV it will not overheat the bathroom.
If you have a cabinet above a radiator, things will dry out or degrade quickly. Some medicines may spoil.

Don't put a cabinet above a basin or bath, as glass jars and bottles will damage it when they fall out.

Thankyou, really helpful (and practical).

Couldn't agree more piglet. All good valid points. I have a chrome towel heater it drives me bonkers with watermarks. Most are not temperature controllable so a danger to toddlers yet never heat the bathroom enough. I'd rip mine from the walls with my bare hands if it wouldn't leave holes in the tiles.

Just don't get chrome - they get scalding without giving off any warmth!

We always go for enormous 6 foot white towel ladder type ones. If we put a couple of towels on them there's still acres of surface area to belt out the heat! And as they're white they really don't look that massive!

Thankyou.
We decided against underfloor heating as it is such a small area but will look at the warm up one.
Think we are going with a convential white radiator with hooks above on the wall for the towels.