Easy Hanging Hand Towel Sewing Tutorial To Smarten Up Your Kitchen (2024)

FAQs

Where to put a hand towel in the kitchen? ›

Adhesive clips or wall-mounted coat racks can be your best friends here. They make hanging towels super easy, keeping your kitchen space neat and organized.

The oven door handle is a classic spot to hang a kitchen towels. It's convenient and easy to reach, making it perfect for grabbing a towel to dry your hands or wipe up a spill. A pot rack is a good way to add storage and style to your kitchen. It's also a perfect spot to hang your kitchen dish towels.

Install a hand towel holder on the side of an upper cabinet or on a wall close to the sink. Some people like a separate towel just for washing hands, while others use dish towels for any sort of drying. Again, make sure that the finish on the wall or cabinet you choose can stand up to moisture from a damp towel.

How many towels should I have? An optimal number of towels for your kitchen should be the amount that you use between laundry days. If you use a few towels every time you prepare dinner and only wash once a week, you should have around 14. If you use one, keep seven.

Twist loop drying towels: These towels are made of a looped microfiber material that is extremely absorbent and effective at drying your car after washing. They are typically large and plush, making them ideal for soaking up water and drying large areas quickly.

The best weave structures are those with floats: twills and waffle weaves, spot and lace weaves, supplementary warp and weft weaves, deflected doubleweave. Plain weave can provide a relatively absorbent towel, but threads that float tend to untwist a bit, especially with washing, increasing their absorbency.

Generally, cotton is the best material for kitchen towels and dishcloths because it's a natural, durable fiber that's absorbent and dries relatively quickly.

Towel bars and other towel hardware should be within easy arm's reach near each sink and bath fixture. Bars usually work best on the longest wall in the bathroom and should be as long (horizontally) as possible. Towel and robe hooks can be used alone or in groups and fit more easily on short walls than towel bars.

Where do you keep hand towels? ›

Hang hand towels from wall-mounted rings to keep them within reach. This bathroom towel storage idea works well in small bathrooms with pedestal or floating sinks where counter space is limited. You'll also have the chance to show off any decorative bath towels you have on hand.

Towel ring, bar or hook.

You probably have a towel hanging near your bathroom sink for drying your hands; apply the same logic to the kitchen. Install a hand towel holder on the side of an upper cabinet or on a wall close to the sink.

Wall Mounted

If you don't have the counter space or don't want to add another item to your counters, a wall-mounted paper towel holder is the obvious solution. Look for a holder that will last and is easy to change the roll on, plus easy to use.