How do you know where to hang your towel rods?
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I’m an interior designer and I’m intrigued by your question. It’s a great question. Most people don’t think of such technicalities when installing towel rods. It’s not easy to give advice such as this without measurements and seeing the space, but I can give you some approximations.
As to your original question as to where to put the towel rods, one gentleman said about five feet up from the floor and that’s a good height suggestion. I think the rods should come at about shoulder to chest height, depending on the heights of all who live in your house. (Though most things that hang on the wall, such as artwork, are to hang at eye level for proper viewing pleasure.) Just try to hang them midway to accommodate everyone. You don’t want anyone to get fatigued reaching way up high or stooping low just to dry their hands.
As to where to put them, I suggest hanging them wherever they’re needed and are easily accessible. Putting rods over the toilet or near a door only works when the sink or shower stall/tub is near the toilet or the door. Generally, if you have a convenient spot to place a rod near the sink, do that. And you don’t have to limit yourself to the standard towel rods. You can put up shelves and fold the towels (a great trick when you can’t think of how high to hang the rods because guests simply reach for a folded towel), or put up a towel tree—which is like a coat tree and would depend on the size and space limitations of your room—and drape the towels over the bars of the tree stand, or do simple little circular towel rods that look like wrought-iron door knockers. These hold normal-sized hand towels and are so small they can hang right next to the sink area. Again, just make sure to hang them at around shoulder/chest height in the most convenient location. Remember, walking across the room with dripping hands or a soaking-wet body to get a towel isn’t convenient and it only means that you’ll have to clean up droplets of water on the floor later.
As for balancing objects on the wall so that the outcome is attractive, well, that’s a little harder to advise because I don’t know the measurements or layout of your bathroom. What I suggest doing is a designer trick: make a rough sketch of your wall on graph paper, making each square represent one-quarter inch equal to one foot or whatever works best for you. Assign geometric shapes to fixtures already in your room (such as sink, tub, medicine cabinet, étagère) and then assign shapes to the things you want to add to your room, be they the towel rods, pictures, shelving, etc. For these shapes, measure the fixtures and then assign the same scale size: ¼” = 1’ (or whatever you’ve decided). Cut out the shapes or draw them on the graph paper. (Cutting them out gives you handy little templates to play around with, moving them on the graph paper as you try different layouts.) Trust your instincts to tell you when you see an arrangement that works. Most people know what they like when they see it and an attractive arrangement will jump out at you eventually. Trust me, as a designer, it’s not always easy and it’s not always the first scheme that works. Sometimes you have to keep playing around until that proverbial light bulb turns on and your brain screams, “Aha! That’s it!”
If this seems like way too much trouble to go to, then you can always just get decorating magazines or home-decorating catalogs and peruse them. If you see a scheme that looks good, try it out; it might work. Just keep in mind that your color scheme and style will differ, so the overall outcome won’t mirror that of the picture you’ve chosen.
Again, since I haven’t spoken with you or seen your room, I don’t know your decorating tastes. Personally, I prefer the symmetrical layout, which means the typically-balanced designs of your more traditional décor. (Think of the artwork kids do in school where you take a dollop of paint in the center of a paper, fold it over and open it up to find a mirror image. Or think of the average human body; we’re symmetrical.) Contemporary and modern design arrangements generally opt for an asymmetrical arrangement, meaning lopsided or one side is visually heavier than the other. (Think of a teeter-totter, how the heavier person sinks to the bottom and the lighter person rises to the top.) One of these styles generally appeals to a person more than the other. Consider this arrangement when deciding what placement you want for your room.
I don’t know where you live, but if you know of the department store JCPenney (jcp.com), they have several bathroom options at a fair price (including that towel stand I mentioned earlier). They also have a two-tier wall shelf that has a towel bar attached to it at the bottom, which gives you plenty of storage options and a handy towel rod.
I think I answered all your questions and I hope all of it helps. If you want to ask me any other design-type questions, feel free to e-mail me at imajdesigns@mail.com. This is my business e-mail. I love tackling decorating questions and dilemmas and I’ll do my best to counsel you over the internet—again, not the best way to approach interior design, but useful if it’s all you’ve got. Good luck.
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I have one of those oven gloves hanging rt. by the toliet. that way I don't have to buy toliet paper. you could do the same for your towel problem.
I have one of those oven gloves hanging rt. by the toliet. that way I don't have to buy toliet paper. you could do the same for your towel problem.
You should put them where they are most convenient and where they look the best. I never really thought about the height when I have installed them myself, I don't know, just eye-ball it or perhaps look at pictures of various bathrooms online ( Google images is a good search engine to start with ) and get ideas there.
Hang your towel rods behind the door. You want them within reach when you step out of the tub or shower.
well, just install it about 5 feet away from the floor and try to center it on the wall also use plastic anchors, if your wall is sheetrock
Wherever there is enough room, our bathroom was so small I only had one place to put it.
Stand in you shower and when you get out where are you could you conveniently put it there?