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Keeping houseplants is a great way to improve your mental health and reduce stress, especially if you spend extra time indoors working from home. This holds true whether or not you have a green thumb; artificial plants can have a similar, if less pronounced, effect as real plants. If you want to get started on filling your home with new flora, there’s an important consideration to be made for the best indoor plants to fit every room: herbs are great in the kitchen, asparagus ferns that love moisture work in the bathroom, low-maintenance succulents will be happy soaking up the sun on your windowsill, and so on. However, your bathroom counter space might be too full of toiletries to fit much plant life. If so, you should consider adding a planter decor piece to your bathroom’s hand towel hanger.

Rather than cluttering your counters even further, consider investing in a wall-mounted hand towel holder that includes a spot intended to display a candle. The Icctuo Hand Towel Holder, for example, is available for $21.99 on Amazon. The design is pretty self-explanatory, being a crescent-shaped metal hook with a small basket at the top that’s designed to hold a candle, but could also keep plants or bottles for moisturizer and other useful bathroom goods. Lots of plants that are great for beginners can be kept in small bathroom pots, like spider plants, succulents, or pothos vines. It’s an easy piece of decor to elevate your bathroom, and if you’re feeling creative, this kind of hanger can even be replicated without needing to buy a premade piece.

In essence, this towel rack plant decor is just a basket attached to your hand towel holder, which you can turn into your own personal DIY project. Finding something like this Universal Multi Size Cup and Mug Holder is fairly easy, especially if you expand your search to include car accessories, and any number of adhesives can be used to stick them to your towel rack. You can try attaching your cup holder with water-resistant glues, strong duct tape, or even something like museum putty. If you’ve recently gone out of your way to swap your traditional towel rack with an alternative that maximizes space, some car-mounted options could be latched directly onto smaller vertical towel hooks.

These ideas for hand towel hanger decor work great for standalone pieces that you might attach to your wall near the bathroom sink, but there are also ways to incorporate planters onto your more traditional shower towel bar hangers. Sites like Etsy are flooded with hanging planters that can hook onto a towel bar, either hanging a basket directly next to your towels or giving you an extra platform on which to set plants of various sizes. Larger, lush greenery is shown to have a more pronounced effect on peoples’ interest and well-being, but there are also plenty of indoor plants that will thrive in small spaces. At the end of the day, there are plenty of ways to customize this hack to better fit your space and personal style.