https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 08 May 2026 10:14:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696446 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:36:14 +0000 MNsara 696446@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Two colors! Two colors! Even if they don't hang together all nice and magazine-like!</p> <p>Chcolate may be dark, but it's rich and warm and triggers love (cravings) in everyone ;-)</p> <p>Pooling curtains are fine with me, but where they are, the hems might get repeatedly wet? If that's the case, then shorten so they don't touch the tub. Otherwise, leave them as is.</p> <p>Gosh you have a nice bathroom!!</p> <p>I hear what everyone says about white towels, but dark (i.e. chocolate) towels are just are practical if they hold their color - plus no need to bleach. I've actually had terrific 'luck' with Target's top-end towels du jour. I've had rotten 'luck' with Ralh Lauren towels Go figure!</p> <p>I almost tried the NAS hydrocotton towles, but they don't have my dark grey color for now. . . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696436 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:29:33 +0000 Anonymous 696436@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I still think you should have at least 2, and preferably 3, colors...that way you'll never get bored! Maybe you can get an extra set to display on a shelf, in a basket or on an extra towel bar? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696421 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:21:33 +0000 Queen Mum 696421@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I get what you all are saying about using 2 colors for accent/interest, but here's the reality... The bath towels only hang nice and folded like that right after laundering, and I don't wash them every day. After use, they get hung open on the towel bar to dry until tomorrow's shower, so hanging an accent handtowel or washcloth with the bath towels is really not an option. I guess I could do a washcloth with the hand towels, but I'm not sure how nice and tidy it would stay put even. Maybe I'll try that though,</p> <p>I'm really waffling between the two darker colors. I'm driving myself crazy! I do love my curtain though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696366 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:21:59 +0000 Janet 696366@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ditto to everything Rita said! Bit by bit, we're replacing our aging towels with white towels from Restoration Hardware. They're expensive but very nice. </p> <p>I have a background in interior design too. I do like the dark chocolate against that wall color. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696356 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:13:48 +0000 Anonymous 696356@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The chocolate is perfect with the lighter color as an accent/alternative. You really need both colors for interest. Charcoal grey would be great as a 3rd color..... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696299 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:31:25 +0000 modgrl 696299@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the two from the right. I like to have two colors of towels, if I have colored towels. I'm actually moving away from all colors. I prefer white towels in the bathrooms these days. Easy to bleach, and if the get mucked up, you can easily replace, match or coordinate with new ones. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696296 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:30:45 +0000 Queen Mum 696296@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>qpswan- I wondered about fading too. Maybe I should soak them in a vinegar bath like I do my jeans. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696293 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:29:32 +0000 Queen Mum 696293@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>so sorry to have not gotten back last night. We had a little minor crisis to deal with. Thanks for all your input. </p> <p>I had left the dark brown up all day yesterday to see what I thought and I was good with them until we got home last night. Without natural light I then wondered if they were too dark. </p> <p>Here are early morning pictures of the 2 on the right end.</p> <p>1/2... we'll call this one "cocoa"</p> <p>3/4... chocolate</p> <p>I wanted to show you the whole curtain too. It is pooling quite a bit at the bottom.. is that stylish or should I hem them up a bit (I'd still leave a bit of scrunch) what is PCL? (proper curtain length.. LOL) And did I hang it too high? </p> <p>I know that the most stylish gals on the web won't steer me wrong even when it comes to my bathroom </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696272 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:57:17 +0000 Anonymous 696272@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>CHOCOLATE! No contest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696155 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:51:33 +0000 qpswan 696155@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am a white towel person because I have kids and I like to bleach the towels. I love the chocolate but wonder how they will wash. They may fade quickly.</p> <p>Let us know what you choose! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-696096 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:12:20 +0000 Scarlet 696096@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Definitely the dark one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695979 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:45:10 +0000 lynn 695979@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yep, chocolate is the best! Just don't wash them with anything light colors! Beautiful bath!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695975 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:35:38 +0000 Mo 695975@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>BF (the resident interior decorator in our own colorful house) and I both vote #4. I like #2 as contrasting color with it.<br /> We don't know what white is in our house - not the walls, not the towels, not the sheets! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695965 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:24:05 +0000 MNsara 695965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chocolate should be the main towel color, and any of the others could be the accent hand towels. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695962 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:20:39 +0000 Echo 695962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote for bath and hand towels in #4 with accent washcloths hung over the hand towels in #3. I definitely prefer the stronger contrast of #4 overall. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695938 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:46:43 +0000 Mita 695938@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>4 is striking, glamorous! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695933 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:40:19 +0000 Glory 695933@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote for 3 and then 4. Love love the paint colour, and the curtain is fab! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695922 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:36:13 +0000 Anonymous 695922@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes on the new photo. And I really do have a background in interior design, it's my other passion... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695893 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:45:43 +0000 Queen Mum 695893@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sara- something about chocolate brown towels is very appealing to me. </p> <p>I added one more photo in the original post.. that's the dark towel with the curtain. Yay? Nay? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695870 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:23:06 +0000 MNsara 695870@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like #4 for its rich color and contrast (but keep in mind I have muted aqua walls with chocolate towels in one bathroom - very zen-like). Then I'd include a couple hand towels of #3 because it repeats the wall color and ties it all together. . .</p> <p>And aren't these sort of decisions frustrating?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695858 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:14:31 +0000 DeclawedJaguar 695858@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote for 3 or 4 too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695855 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:11:16 +0000 Queen Mum 695855@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You all are confirming my thoughts.<br /> I had bought another dark set at Target actually first, but decided the bath sheet was too big and they didn't have regular size towels in the store or on line. </p> <p>Brought home the 3 lighter sets from Kohl's and narrowed it down to the third from the left but still wasn't completely satisfied, so went back and picked up the darkest set, but then wondered if it was too dark. That is when I turned to you all for help :-)</p> <p>I posted a pic on Facebook too and the polls are currently overwhelmingly favoring the darkest one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695853 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:10:47 +0000 April 695853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No help here, QM -- I only buy white towels, sheets, napkins, washcloths, and dishtowels. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695845 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:05:20 +0000 Anonymous 695845@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shabby the interior designer says keep 3 and 4. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695842 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:01:49 +0000 Queen Mum 695842@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Anne!<br /> Lynn, They all work with the curtain, and really none of them will be right next to the curtain so I wasn't thinking it mattered as much. But I can add more pics. I have a cream type now that I hate, and I thought about white, but decided that wouldn't do anything for helping meld the curtain into the scenery. </p> <p>FWIW, it IS a shower curtain, but I'm using it as a window curtain.. just need to shorten it a bit. I can't get a pic of the curtain on the window right now as there is too much back light. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695840 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:57:01 +0000 lynn 695840@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok, this probably won't help much but I need to see the towels next to the shower curtain to pick the brown. I personally would use white or cream towels with the beautiful wall color. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695839 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:56:28 +0000 Anonymous 695839@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here are my thoughts on each one, from left to right:</p> <p>#1: Undertones are too yellow with the paint color. Return.<br /> #2: Blends too much with wall color. Return.<br /> #3: Keep if you want lower contrast with the walls.<br /> #4: Keep if you want high contrast.</p> <p>Does that help? :)</p> <p>P.S. This reaffirms why I stick to white and cream towels. No agonizing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/calling-all-interior-decorators-please-help-me-pick-bath-towels#post-695834 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:52:41 +0000 Queen Mum 695834@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>1 trip to Target, 2 trips to Kohls and 5 sets of towels later I'm at a loss. Which towel do you think is best? The first picture is probably the best color representation. The last one is the new curtain I bought that sent me on this frenzied towel quest. Thus my desire to go with brown towels. </p> <p>Oh, and the towels are in the same order in all the pictures. </p> <p>And yes, this is fashion related because I cannot possibly think straight about what to wear if I'm spending my morning in a bathroom that doesn't match :-)</p> <p>Added another picture of the dark towel with the curtain and wall. </p>