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Most of the time it's because some people live with what they feel are unnecessary pleasures or handy items -- because the people are CHEAP. Difference between being frugal and cheap.
I've listed and sold enough homes to see these "dumb" scenarios. I'd rather change things over to quality pleasures and handy items than re-do their mistakes.
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Originally Posted by Billy_J
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There are things you use every day - say a towel rack or an outlet in the kitchen. Those things can be a "daily frustration" or a "daily pleasure".
I prefer to pay the 2 cents and have a nice life with fewer daily frustrations!
Perhaps, as has been pointed out, the former owners didn't want more towel bars or hooks. That doesn't mean they were cheap.
I have the show towel bar on the wall, and on the back of my bathroom door, I have 2 towels racks, one high and the other low, so the stuff can dry. I also sprayed them bronze so they match the hardware, and on my stained doors they look great.
I'd spend less energy wondering why and more energy hanging additional towel bars.
I agree. I was about to leave this thread...
We built and lived in a few homes. In new ones, sometimes towel racks et al were just not that important before the builder left and we didn't get around to it for various reasons (couldn't figure out what style and/or where to put them being a big one...for some folks maybe the budget was depleted and this stuff is the last of the last to get done and not required for banks or CO).
When we did decide what and where, installing was pretty simple...rather than the builder who will often pick fast and cheap rather than good and smart. If you're not handy enough, call a neighbor or handyman to do it. There are unlimited style and size selections on the web and in stores. Pick some YOU like.
BTW, you can hang 'em over closet doors if you have 'em in the bathroom or throw 'em on the bath/whirlpool edge, or even the floor for the maid or the shower door or ...and you must have a million suggestions in the previous posts in this thread .
This is no excuse mind you...but not everyone worries about this stuff as much, so it happens. You may be better off than depending on previous owners and builders tastes.
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?
There are no hooks installed, that is part of what I find odd. Personally, I like to dry quickly by donning a terrycloth robe and I stay in it for a while before I put my clothes on. But then I need to put it somewhere and it is damp. This is the Upper Midwest, so in cooler weather (which we are still in), I don't like to run around without clothing right after being in a hot shower/warm bathroom, and I do not like the sensation of putting my clothes on when my skin is still damp. Just me.
because before they painted while getting the house ready to sell, they took down anything that was old, rusted, unattractive or mismatched. So now, you get to pick the kind of towel bars you like, and don't have to remove the previous owners hardware and patch the walls.
Our house was built in 1991. There is NO towel rack in our tiny bathroom! There is one in the half bath off what would be the master bedroom [we use it as a family room]. We put our towels up on the shower rack to dry, and washcloths go on the grab bar in the bath and on the back of the shower chair [I'm disabled, so I have an extra grab bar]. The part that slopes down has a flat part near the side of the tub and that's where I put my dirty washcloth so my daughter knows not to use it. We use a rag to wipe down the dogs after their walk because I'm allergic to the grass in our yard. That one goes on the doors under the bathroom sink. I know...bad idea, but usually when my daughter wets the cloth, she only wets half and the dry part is what hangs over the door. We leave it partially open.
We take our clothes in with us, take the towels down and put them in a heap, dirty clothes go in the heap, and clean ones on the chair that is outside the tub [replaced with slide in shower bench]. I have an over the door set of hooks, but that's where some of my clean clothes go. My care aide can't remember where my clothes go...I use plastic boxes on shelves instead of a dresser, and that's just too far outside what she does. We are very rural. I couldn't get anyone to use the vacuum cleaner...they are used to sweeping.
Enjoy being able to do baths yourself, while you can. Things change a lot once you get older and have to have someone else do the putting up. It's exhausting to try to get them to do it the way I like it.
When we remodeled a bathroom, I made sure that we added an extra towel bar. We also had a bar on the glass tub door. And I also had knobs added on the back of the door and on the storage unit we had installed.
In my present 12 year old home, there is only one towel bar in the hall bath, and one in the toilet/shower stall. The racks are quite large though. And I hang damp towels on the top of the glass doors. I've always done this, because I can hang them without folding, and I think they dry quicker that way.
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