Retire Your Old Towel Rack: The Modern Alternative From Amazon

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Most bathrooms come with a pretty standard design for a towel rack. It's a bar that's attached to the wall with the help of two brackets. Gets the job done. Sometimes, with the introduction of different materials, like cast iron or polished bronze, these towel storage tools even look downright stylish. Still, because the same basic bar-and-brackets design prevails, they all kinda look ho-hum after a while. If this towel rack ho-hum-ness resonates with you, you may be ready for a new configuration. For example, one like the Wita semi-oval towel holder, which features a horseshoe-esque design that can hold more than just towels. Such a rack may just be the thing to turn to when you need to stash items like hair ties and curling irons.

Instead of being one long towel bar, this towel holder comes in a set of two. Each individual rack measures 7 inches across by 16.5 inches high. However, unlike the towel bars you're used to, which are wider than they are high, this one is the opposite. On the bottom of it is the aforementioned horseshoe; its design looks a bit like someone turned the shoe upside down, and then stretched a bar across its two tips to make it into a D-shape. The bar on the bottom is where you hang your towels and washcloths. A long metal bar, meanwhile, attached to the middle of the curved part of the horseshoe, keeps the unit attached to the wall.

Like the bar-and-bracket towel rack, this Amazon find sits a couple of inches away from the wall. Its distance from the wall is why this piece is worth considering when you need a spot in the bathroom to store items other than towels, like hair dryers, curling irons, and hair ties. 

To store the appliances, bundle up the cords and tie them together with a twist tie so that they stay together. Then, wrap the cords around the bottom bar so they hang in place. Some cords may need to be wrapped around the bar more than once if the item attached to the cord is heavy, which will stop the cord from coming unraveled and sliding off the bar. On a related note, if you're worried about hanging irons on a rack due to the heat from the irons being so close to the wall, you could also hook something like a Polder high-heat silicon hot sleeve over the rack's bar. The curling iron will rest in the padded sleeve instead of being hung directly onto the rack by its cord.

As for storing hair ties and clips, you'll just need some heavy-duty S-hooks to set up this storage hack. Add a handful of S-hooks to the bottom bar of the rack, then hang headbands, hair bands, and scrunchies. For hair clips, clip them directly to the bar at the top of the unit — one on top of the other, until all of your hair clasps have a place to rest.