No airing cupboard- where do you store towels etc?

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I've moved to a house without an airing cupboard. There is a cupboard in the bathroom but I'm not sure if it's dry enough to store towels inside, given that some may sit there indefinitely while others will be used frequently.

Otherwise there are fitted wardrobes in bedrooms but they will be full of clothes.

What do you do?

We use a cabinet in the bathroom and I take my towels from the bottom of the pile.

Ours are just in a cupboard on the landing, but I make sure they are bone dry before I put them in there, after washing them, so they aren't damp and mouldy.

We have a townhouse, the airing cupboard is in the middle. We have a double bed with an ottoman base to store linen and towels in. Saves us walking up and down the stairs all the bloody time!

Ours are folded up in a moses basket on the landing. It's a 30s house, so it's a wide landing and it doesn't get in the way. It started as a practicality, but now I like the way it looks.

Thanks for your ideas, either should work for me.

After posting this I realised it might have been better in Good Housekeeping.

I don't have excess towels. Guest ones live with guest bedding. The rest are on rails in the bathrooms. They get washed and dried in a day. Don't have any spare bedding either.

Wow I cross-posted with more ideas, thanks!

Airing cupboard isn't big enough (and is in DDs room, which is a pain for evening baths).

Spare towels and our quilt covers live in divan draws under our bed (DD2's live under her bed), DD1's and soare quilts live in the airing cupboard. DD1's desk lives under her bed.

Our previous house didn't have an airing cupboard and the previous owners had installed cedar shelves (anti-moth) in the cupboard under the stairs and that's where they (and then us) stored towels & bedding.

A linen cupboard on the landing. It has slatted shelves. Like this one:

Shelves in the bathroom for towels, bed linen in our wardrobes.

I've got built-in shelves in my bathroom which seems an obvious place to store them, but it gets very steamy in there after baths and showers so is it OK to keep them there? Will they get damp?

Sorry to hijack, OP! No airing cupboard is annoying.

Mine live in Lloyd Loom style ottomans in front of the radiators in each bedroom - I keep bedding in there too as we seem to have billions of sets. I'd love one of those big cupboards!

We're building an airing cupboard in now, it's not by the boiler but has the hot water pipes running next to it and it's a space that would otherwise be a very awkward alcove (removed unused hot water tank, gained airing cupboard). I'm actually really looking forward to having space to put spare pillows, duvets and sleeping bags and somewhere to stash the canvas for our tent. Normally that stuff lives in the loft and it's a PITA to get out when you need it.

hotel-style towel racks.

But I have of course got an effective and quiet extractor fan, that comes on with the bathroom light. That's the only way to defeat people who have an aversion to ventilation.

I've got a big wooden blanket box in our bedroom which has spare towels and bed linen in - I make sure everything is bone dry before it goes in there.

Spare kids towels/ linen go in a drawer in their rooms.

I'm glad someone else finds this useful- I didn't expect so many replies, this is great.

I think I'll keep a couple in the bathroom cupboard and look for something to store the rest in. I'm new to stairs, having lived in a flat, so hadn't thought about using the landing for storage.

I bought two old trunks and painted them. Bottom one stores all the spare winter bedding and guest towels and linen.
Top one stores our linen and towels and they sit on the landing

I love hotel style towel racks, but Our bathroom gets very steamy. It would only work if I could trust my lovely family not to stuff used towels, back on the rack.

Given their total inability, to put towels over a warm radiator rather than their beds.....

Ours live in a chest of drawers in DS's bedroom. We lost our airing cupboard when the new combi boiler was installed in it. I do miss having a nice warm toasty cupboard but the dry towels are fine stored elsewhere.

What are hotel style towel racks?

I lost my airing cupboard to the stairs for the loft extension.

Towels are now in my wardrobe (there is not enough space for towels and my clothes ) and the DCs duvet covers and sheets now live in their bottom drawers.

towel rack

With spare towels and bedding that may not get used for months, we keep them in plastic storage (zipped tightly) bags - about £8/£10 from John Lewis, and store them at the bottom of the wardrobe (no airing cupboard in this house).

Hotel style towel racks in bathrooms and pretty freestanding painted towel rails in the bedrooms.

The wardrobe in DS's room is about 8 foot tall, so I use the higher shelves for towels and sheets.