Keep Kitchen Towels Organized With An In-Cabinet Storage Solution

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With dozens of uses, the best kitchen towels are as cute as they are absorbent. Vital to have on hand for drying up if you're handwashing dishes, they're also handy for mopping up unexpected spills, they can be placed under bowls to keep them steady, and are even useful for random tasks like squeezing water and starch out of potatoes. But having kitchen towels to hand means you also need a place to store them. It's no good leaving them on the side where they're cluttering up your work space. And by doing this, there's also the danger that they'll come into contact with a host of germs and bacteria, particularly if they fall on the floor. You can keep kitchen towels off the floor with an innovative hanging storage solution: installing a slide-out towel bar in your cabinet.

By keeping your towels stored in a cabinet, they'll stay organized and hang safely until you need to grab them. Best of all, these towel bars can also hold dish towels and dish cloths, meaning you can have all the absorbent products you need to hand in one easy spot. It's a great way to avoid piles of towels cluttering up counters and shelves, plus hanging them allows the towels to keep fresher for longer. 

A towel rack can make the smallest kitchen more functional, but an in-cabinet slide-out towel bar goes that little extra mile by providing functionality combined with space-saving. There are plenty of designs to choose from, with different sizes on offer, but you'll find that all work in a similar way. The Rev-A-Shelf Pullout Dish Towel Bar from Target offers three prongs and will fit a variety of cupboard spaces, as well as promising to be easy enough to install in just five minutes.

Despite this claim, though, we do recommend that you take the time to measure up your cupboard space before you invest in a towel bar. This will ensure that you choose one that will fit your space neatly, while having plenty of clearance above to allow you to slide the towel bars out smoothly. Once you're ready to install, make sure you use a spirit level to line up the bar, marking its position with a pencil before you insert the screws to hold the bar in place. Some slide-out towel bars might also require you to use a drill to get the screws into place, but others may only need a screwdriver. So, make sure you've got the right tools for the job before you start. And once the bar is screwed it, that's it. You now have a perfect spot to store your towels to keep them tidy and clean.