Bathroom hanging spaces

[Anonymous]

I feel like we are always running out of spaces to hang towels, swimsuits, cover ups, etc, and need to change up our bathroom storage strategy.

Right now in the kids bathroom there’s the curtain rod (a tension rod between two tiled surfaces— it falls down with some regularity so we don’t hang wet towels on it for the most part because they’re too heavy), and one small towel bar (wide enough for one towel- and not even the bath sheet sized ones).

Options would be:
1) add some hooks to the wall behind the door (not sure how well things will dry that way?)
2) replace the current towel bar with something bigger (wider, or two bars top and bottom)
3) find someone who can mount a curtain rod without ruining the tile
4) maybe one of those back of door towel holders?

If you’ve solved for bathroom drying spaces, I would love to hear what worked! I feel like we don’t have a space for things to dry and also a space for like an extra clean fresh towel to be hanging.

[Anonymous]

So we have a railing upstairs along the hallway where the stairs are, if that makes sense…. I hang towels over that to dry, and swimsuits .
We use hooks for our towels in our bathroom. DD has one of those hook things that goes over the door in her bathroom. She hangs her shower cap on that, a hair wrap, and occasionally a towel. Primarily uses a towel bar though.

[Anonymous]

Depending on the space you have, add a drying rack:

[Anonymous]

We have over the door hooks. They work well assuming you have a properly ventilated room.

[Anonymous]

I mean, to start you should install a proper curtain rod. It should be anchored to the wall with appropriate anchors (depending on if it’s tile, studs or drywall).

[Anonymous]

We have 2 hooks and a towel bar. Each person that takes a shower brings their towel to the bathroom. Afterward they take their towel back to their room and hang on a hook on the back of their door. So no bath towels live in the bathroom permanently (the towel bar is for hand towels), and we never had any issue with them not drying completely.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a basement or some other area where you can set up a drying rack like PP suggested? Also, putting the dehumidifier next to it really helps dry it fast. We happen to put towels next to dehumidifier in basement.
I have a tension rod in my kids shower and it has fallen down maybe once a year, and I hang pool towels over it. Try adjusting it some more??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we have a railing upstairs along the hallway where the stairs are, if that makes sense…. I hang towels over that to dry, and swimsuits .
We use hooks for our towels in our bathroom. DD has one of those hook things that goes over the door in her bathroom. She hangs her shower cap on that, a hair wrap, and occasionally a towel. Primarily uses a towel bar though.

No paint or finish on the railing and no wood floors?

[Anonymous]

Can you install a towel bar on a wall inside the tub/shower area? That's what we do with truly wet things. For things that are not dripping, I like the idea of a railing in the hall and/or a kid bedroom.

[Anonymous]

We are planning a bathroom renovation now and this is a major consideration since we have kids who swim year-round! I'm looking at "train rack" style racks for over the rear of the bathtub, that can hold towels but also hooks for swimsuits. One example:
https://www.potterybarn.com/products/sussex-train-rack/

[Anonymous]

Google "multi layer towel bar" and there are sooo many options. I'm looking at getting one for my bathroom. There are also stick on (?) ones for inside the shower/bathroom which would be great for swim suits. Even just available on amazon to try out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have a railing upstairs along the hallway where the stairs are, if that makes sense…. I hang towels over that to dry, and swimsuits .
We use hooks for our towels in our bathroom. DD has one of those hook things that goes over the door in her bathroom. She hangs her shower cap on that, a hair wrap, and occasionally a towel. Primarily uses a towel bar though.

No paint or finish on the railing and no wood floors?

I’m the pp. the railing is wood, not painted, the floor is carpet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are planning a bathroom renovation now and this is a major consideration since we have kids who swim year-round! I'm looking at "train rack" style racks for over the rear of the bathtub, that can hold towels but also hooks for swimsuits. One example:
https://www.potterybarn.com/products/sussex-train-rack/

Ikea has something similar.

If you have lots of wet pool towels, first thing you can do is put them in the spin/drain cycle for 5 minutes. That will give them a really good head start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you install a towel bar on a wall inside the tub/shower area? That's what we do with truly wet things. For things that are not dripping, I like the idea of a railing in the hall and/or a kid bedroom.

I’ve been considering this— the whole shower area is tiled, so it’s definitely not something I could just put up myself, but maybe if we had someone install a non- tension shower rod they could also do a bar in the shower for hanging.

[Anonymous]

Buy quick drying bath towels too. Makes a huge difference.

We have hooks on the back of all bathroom and bedroom doors in our (small, 1960s) house.

I wash all beach and pool towels immediately. Bathing suits I hang or lay flat in the Laundry room after drying.