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I was wondering, what do you prefer, hand towel bars, rings, or hooks?
I like bars the best. It seems to give the hand towel more surface area to dry faster. In my purchase of new bathroom accessories I just replaced my hand towel ring with a bar.
As much as I love pink, I already bought Moen Genta LX accessories in brushed nickel. Quality and resale value matter. Plus, pink would not match my faucet and other plumbing fixtures (which are a mix of Moen and Delta products). Over the past year or two I swapped out my faucet, showerhead, valve trim, tub spout, and drain assembly. The accessories are the final touches. I also tried to install a matching toilet lever, but it wouldn't work with my toilet.
I'm pretty live-and-let-live about a lot of household hardware fixtures but this one actually mattered in my current house. You could tell the builders or previous owners outfitted it from the same big box store's bargain bin because everything matched...right down to the fakey bronze verdigris finish. Ceiling light fixtures, hooks, brackets, doorknobs, vanity lighting, cabinet pulls, everything. They seemed to love a particular double hook (the hooks face away from each other parallel to the wall instead of protruding toward you) for the two bathrooms. I hated those double hooks. Whatever you hung on them never stayed put and moisture just moldered peacefully in the folds of a wet washcloth/towel. Got rid of them in the guest bath but I'm sort of stuck with them in the master.
One of the small irritating mysteries of this house's layout is not considering hang space in the master bath. Granted, it's a snug house and the closet/kitchen storage actually works quite well despite that, but some things just didn't make much sense. Don't know what they assumed an adult couple would do with their multiple daily use towels. The room's vent windowsill is too low to hang an average sized bath towel underneath without it dragging on the floor. The opposite wall is taken up by vanity, mirror, medicine cabinet, and toilet. The rest of the room is filled with bath/shower surround. No shower door, just a curtain (of course I could change that, but I prefer laundering a curtain not trying to keep a shower door clear of minerals). The only place to hang bath towels is on a door rack or those same stupid hooks. I avoid a rack on the door because the door opens right up against the window wall. The corners of a rack will eventually damage the drywall every time the door is opened. As for hanging smaller things like a washcloth or hand towel I don't care what was used. They all do the job. At least using a ring or hook you're drilling fewer mounting holes in a wall. That's one less potential miscalculation to make!
Last edited by Parnassia; 12-19-2023 at 03:37 PM..
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