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Post by dailystruggle on Dec 25, 2009 16:33:32 GMT -5
I want to start this thread so that people can gives tips for weird situations and how normal people would solve them. For instance, we have several towels that we need to put away. We don't have a linen closet. Our bathroom is tiny. It has a toilet, a small sink, a shower, a cabinet under the sink, and three drawers. Unfortunately, our towels don't fit in the drawers, even when they're clean. I foresee a moldy towel problem if we store them in the cabinet under the sink. Also, we store our cleaners under the sink and we have the cabinet "baby proofed". We tried shelves above the toilet, but the towels were heavy enough to break the shelves. Where do we store our towels?
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Post by wendy on Dec 25, 2009 17:54:58 GMT -5
All homes have their quirks! There is no storage space for towels in any of our bathrooms, either, so we keep them in a hall closet. Another idea would be to keep them in a nice wicker basket in or near the bathroom.
Good luck! Wendy
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Post by echo on Dec 25, 2009 18:26:03 GMT -5
I'd roll the towels and put them in a basket on the floor
Or screw one of those hooks for hanging plants into a beam in the cieling and with chainor rope, suspend the basket to a nice height someplace and store towels in it.... Those hooks will hold a lot of weight.
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Post by success19 on Dec 25, 2009 18:52:20 GMT -5
One of those over the door towel rod things.
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Post by panicked on Dec 25, 2009 19:00:32 GMT -5
There are also metal eterges that go over the toilet, so the shelves are sturdily supported. I don't have one, but they look like they'd hold a fair bit of stuff. Target, BB&B, and those type of stores have them. What I do have from Target is an over-the-door towel rack. It doesn't hold that many towels--I use it just for the "good" towels--but it takes up no space at all and was cheap cheap.
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Post by DJ on Dec 25, 2009 20:20:52 GMT -5
i have a rack over my door that holds the towels that we're using for the week..ihave a basket that i roll the clean towels and bathmats into ... it usually goes on the floor but sometimes onto the counter or onto some cubical wooden shelves i made to fix our own lack of bathroom storage...
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Post by xievajohnson on Dec 25, 2009 21:10:44 GMT -5
I'm glad you posted this question. My towels are currently lacking a home, too. Right now they are in an armoire in the room off the bathroom, but it's a terrible challenge to get to that side of the room. Please keep us updated on what you try.
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Post by dailystruggle on Dec 25, 2009 21:33:51 GMT -5
Well, the metal storage racks sound nice, but unfortunately, the people that the landlord hired to "fix" the place up made it look pretty, but the walls are not very sturdy. I'm more afraid of the walls falling than metal storage racks. The racks that were here before didn't attach to the walls. They used the pressure of the floor and ceiling to stay up. Do they have metal racks of that type? Otherwise, I can't find any other racks that will fit over the toilet. The wicker basket idea sounds nice, and I think that I could find one both small enough to fit in the amount of space that we have and large enough to hold the towels. Wouldn't the towels get kind of moist though? Like when we take showers? Our hall is tiny too. Barely enough space to move through it as it is, that's without clutter. The hanging the towels up idea. We have an overhead light, with a glass cover, in the way of that. If I had a bigger bathroom then it would be great. We already have an over the door bar; it holds one towel. I tried the over the door shelves, but they didn't hold up too well vs my kids. I'll try the wicker basket and see what happens. Thanks for all your replies and help.
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Post by DJ on Dec 25, 2009 22:13:19 GMT -5
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Post by dailystruggle on Dec 26, 2009 1:07:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the link djdj.
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Post by lizzie on Dec 26, 2009 2:28:26 GMT -5
I reckon lots of people have bathrooms too small to store any towels in; I keep my towels in a cupboard in the hall; sometimes there's 'normal' and 'reality' and it sounds like the 'reality' is that your room simply isn't big enough for towel storage. Do you have a laundry area you could store them in? Then it might work that when you take clean towels to the bathroom you take the used towels back to the laundry on the return trip.
How different our homes would be if we had more say in their design!
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Dec 26, 2009 2:40:19 GMT -5
I think most "normal" people don't keep their clean towels in the bathroom at all! I agree that you shouldn't keep all the clean towels in the bathroom because they would absorb moisture from the air. I think "normal" people keep folded clean towels (the ones not being used this week) in the linen closet. I grew up living in older houses. A linen closet is a closet intended for sheets, pillowcases, and towels. Usually it is located in a hallway near the entrances to the bedrooms and bathroom. People keep the towels being used on a towel rack or hooks inside the bathroom. Some people keep ONE spare clean towel and washcloth in the bathroom cabinet under the sink. But all the rest of the clean folded towels and washcloths are usually kept in the linen closet. If you are like me, your linen closet is crammed full of boxes of other junk. But that's a separate topic EDIT ... WHOOPS ... I just read your post again. You don't have a linen closet. Okay. Well actually, since my linen closet is being used for storing other stuff, I keep my linens elsewhere anyhow. What I do is this ... I use a one or two drawers in a chest of drawers (a dresser). I keep my sheets, towels, and pillowcases in there. It is in the bedroom. I hang up all of my clothes (including jeans and T-shirts). The only dresser drawers I use for clothing are for socks and undies. So I have extra dresser drawer space for linens.
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Post by brightbeginning on Dec 26, 2009 7:21:11 GMT -5
I know exactly what you mean CL-in the linen closet in my other house, I not only had towels in there, but almost EVERYTHING else! Whenever I opened that closet, I'd have to jump back to avoid anything falling on my head! Debi
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Post by charis on Dec 26, 2009 13:24:37 GMT -5
1. I think most of us tend to buy too many linens, plus we don't get rid of old ones--we just shove the old ones and new ones in on top of each other. Buy fewer to start with --only 2 bath towels and 2 washcloths per household member, plus 2 hand towels to go by the sink. Cycle them out more often. Donate old ones to shelters who will use them for animal blankies or rip them in quarters for car washing rags.
2. One reason towels get musty is that they are taken out of the dryer when they are 95 percent dry. This happens because they often get washed with other items, and people take the whole load out when the towels are still a tiny bit damp in the centers. When folks pay to wash their clothes it happens because the dryer cycle doesn't go long enough to fully dry heavy items. My husband can't tell when towels are still a little damp because he gauges the outside of the towel. If you wash towels regularly you know by the weight of the towel--there is a slight heft to an incompletely dried towel.
3. I like white towels that can be bleached to get the mustiness out--it is so hard to reclaim a colored towel that has gotten musty.
4. We keep a small stack of pet towels for rainy days and their baths. These can go in the garage or hall closet so they don't take up needed room in the smallest room in the house.
5. More room can be made for towels and other things if only one spare set of sheets for each bed is kept tucked between the mattress and box springs. When you strip the bed, you pull the spare set out and remake the bed.
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Post by sparkle on Dec 26, 2009 14:08:15 GMT -5
I found that those tension held racks that go over the toilet were awfully flimsy. Maybe they've improved, though. In a former bathroom, I used a ladder, not a real working ladder but two rails and many rungs. I leaned it against the wall and hung towels on the rungs. Walls in that bath were flimsy, too. I made that ladder out of wood. If I did it again, I'd make sure the rungs were metal so towels would slide off easily instead of catching as often happened with wood. Do believe I'd use copper tubing for home depot or lowe's. Not at all expensive. Would probably use wooden rails, drill holes the diameter of copper pipe and pretend it's tinker toys.
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