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We use electric towel warmer racks in our bathrooms. They are freestanding and don't take up much floor space.
They dry towels very quickly and it is nice to always have a warm towel when you step out of the shower. You could hang your robe on it too and it would be warm.
Not knowing what wall finishes are in the bathroom, maybe there were more towel bars and hooks originally, but at some point there was redecorating (not remodeling) and the extras were removed to paint or paper and just never got reinstalled.
Only one owner. I guess the bathroom could have been remodeled (although it doesn't look it), but again, why remove something so utilitarian as all the towel bars?
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My question was more just wondering if anyone could tell me why anyone would have this situation.
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The original owner supervised the building, which was done by a professional builder who was a family member. So she got what she wanted, and clearly she did not want towel bars.
Seems like you answered your own question...
BTW, we don't have any towel bars.
Hooks work much better for us,
Now that I think of it, the ranch I grew up in only had a towel bar we used for hand towels. We would hang our towels over the shower rod and the rails on the shower door. That was a house with 2 adults and 2 girls.
Our washer emptied into a laundry sink but that was the only house I lived in that did. Other houses had them drain to an outside pipe.
We have a towel bar over the toilet (hand towels) and one on the wall (bath towels) but it's fairly wide. It's still not enough so we have hooks on the back of the door as well.
Maybe the original owner didn't want/need towel bars because she washed her towels after each use & didn't use washcloths or wear robes? A bar for a hand towel is enough for a lot of people- some don't even need that actually (they might just fold the towel next to the sink). Why have hooks or towel bars adding visual clutter if you don't actually need them? And if you do need them, they are very easy to add.
I really hate damp towels, and folding them will not allow the towels to totally dry. And there still wouldn't be room for the larger bath towels.
The original owner supervised the building, which was done by a professional builder who was a family member. So she got what she wanted, and clearly she did not want towel bars.
There is no closet in the bathroom.
I get that not everyone wants, say, a bowling alley in the basement or a built in tropical fish tank. But a towel bar seems to me a pretty normal thing to have in a bathroom, IMO. Until now, I have been blessed with not just one, but more than one towel bar in every bathroom I ever had, whether it was a house or an apartment. Even the cheapest apartment had a towel bar on the wall and one on the tub enclosure.
It just seemed odd to me, that's all.
Perhaps they repainted the bathroom before selling, and got rid of the extras and filled the holes. Perhaps they got new shower doors and the new ones don't have a bar.
Who really cares why. If you want hooks, add some.
I think it is odd you never heard of a washer not draining to a sink when houses have been being built that way for about 50 years.
Maybe the original owner didn't want/need towel bars because she washed her towels after each use & didn't use washcloths or wear robes? A bar for a hand towel is enough for a lot of people- some don't even need that actually (they might just fold the towel next to the sink). Why have hooks or towel bars adding visual clutter if you don't actually need them? And if you do need them, they are very easy to add.
Ya. Thinking of the house I grew up in, we had one towel bar, which my mom kept decorative towels on. We had one bar on the shower door to actually use, and no rings for hand towels, and no hooks for robes. Somehow, my sister and I survived.
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