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Um… respectively disagree. Vinyl liners are critical when using cloth outer curtains. I’m from the NYC/Long Island area and it’s the norm, or was until printed vinyl liners became more ubiquitous.
And I’m old.
Over the last 20 years, they’ve become anything but boring, at least here in the US. You can find anything on Amazon!
Love that place!
Almost every apartment I’ve lived in has had one shower with sliding doors. I’ve wasted more time cleaning the slider tracks with a toothbrush than I care to think about.
You missed my point entirely. Which was why use a cloth outer curtain and a vinyl liner when one could just use one waterproof shower curtain? As I said, it’s just a decor choice.
I can’t believe this thread is still going. I feel obligated to reply. No, a thousand times no to the shower curtain on the towel bar.
After reading all these responses I’m amazed there are still this many people who use those plastic/vinyl shower liners. I hate the way they stick to your skin because the shower water makes them fly up. Yuck.
Switch to the fabric ones with weights on the bottom and have a fabric outer one if you prefer. They’re fine solo if that’s what you prefer. The shower hooks make it easy to change between each guest.
And please remove any towel bars. They are impractical and fall off the wall
Every two months. Replace it with something nice that has hooks. You can hang one towel at best on a bar and two people will normally have four towels. They then have to drape them over the rod to dry, or worse yet, on your wooden furniture.
I found this one on Amazon, but they’re pretty simple to make. My guests love it, they can hang their toiletry bag, robes, towels, all kinds of things with 5 double hooks. And it eliminates the need for a second one over the toilet for hand towels.
Mine have never fallen off the wall. It makes a difference where and how you mount them though. I only have one hook, next to the shower that a towel can be hung on in the bathroom. I also have two towel bars and one towel ring in that small bathroom. There is a set of hooks like this on the wall just outside the bathroom door though. Despite all those hooks and rods, I’ve still had guests leave wet towels over chairs, in a pile on the floor, or on the bed.
I’ve never had a towel bar fall off the wall in my life, in any house I lived in or owned. Sounds like a poor installation issue to me.
What would be impractical where I live, because of the high humidity, are hooks. The towels don’t dry out quickly when they are on a hook- they need to be hung across a bar.
Installation and what it’s made of do make a difference. But I’ve seen guests try to jam all 4 towels in there on many occasions. Plus bathing suits and clothes. Even ones mounted on studs have come loose and bent.
And towels folded over and stuffed on a rod don’t seem like they would dry quickly at all. With hooks, I’ve never had a wet towel issue. I put these in my bath as well.
Ah, I forgot that variable. I don’t allow more than two guests. Yet I have 4 places they can hang towels. A family of 4 using one bathroom is a different calculus.
I only host one guest at a time in my private room listing, and the 2 towel bars are long enough to hang a bath towel unfolded. So they dry out pretty fast.
That’s why different strokes for different folks- often we just picture things from our own experience, but others have set-ups we aren’t aware of and haven’t considered.
This is a fun topic and offers advice on things I’ve never thought about, but because of this thread I replaced my vinyl liner with an inner fabric liner, I’ll see how it works out after my guest checks out. I use hooks by the way for towel dying, I have several all over, but you’d be surprised how many towels I find on the floor, lol.
Pools, too. Even worse if there’s a beach and pool.
I was doing a quick changeover for my neighbors when they were out of town. I didn’t have to clean, that had already been done, but I had to put out fresh towels and sheets and a couple other chores. My neighbor had told me where to find the clean towels, but the cupboard was bare. I found them all wet and dirty on the floor of the laundry room.
2 guys had managed to go through 17 bath towels in a week.
Mine have magnets for weight and stick to the tub.
Not a problem in 32 years or recently.
hand towels are on the wall on the right of the sink, not near the toilet.
Your space is lovely!
I have 3 hooks on the back of the bathroom door, the bedroom door has another 3 hooks, and there are hooks on the lanai for pool towels.
2 guests here and 5 places just in the bathroom to hang towels.
Only at checkout, thankfully. I have found towels draped on the wood furniture and left on the bed that would be slept in that evening. I always ask guests if I can vacuum their rooms daily and replenish the bottled water once they’ve left. This gives me the opportunity to tidy up a bit, if needed.
Guests seem to like the “limited maid service,” so that’s good.
My neighbor was foolish to leave them access to all that.
Someone posted on another forum, quite adamantly, that it was unhygienic and disgusting to use a towel more than once. According to her, even if all it has been used for is to dry yourself off when you get out of the shower, it needs to get washed, it couldn’t possibly be hung up to dry and used for your next shower.
She must spend half her waking life doing laundry.
I would never hang my shower curtain like that. I think that is the place where towels go. To me it looks like she forgot to put it back where it belongs. That is my humble opinion, but if the place is clean, i guess it doesn’t really matter, Right.
