Innovative Bathroom Storage Ideas

Bathroom Storage Challenges

I don’t know why bathrooms can become a storage quagmire for so many of us, but they do. Many times it has to do with space constraints or maybe trying to fit too much stuff into a small space–we are here to offer solutions! From prescriptions to hair straighteners, everything does better if it has it’s space.

Sneaky Storage Tricks for Bathrooms

Since your bathroom is where you clean up for the day, it makes sense that it should be one of the cleanest and most well organized rooms in your house. Especially since so many of us are time deprived today and seem to be fitting more hours than are imaginable into a 24 hour day.This means no countertop clutter, towels on floor–everything needs to have a designated home!

1. Put your bathroom cleaning supplies in your cleaning closet, not your bathroom, where space is already at a premium.
2. Buy an all in one shelf and charging station for your small electronics, such as toothbrushes and trimmers.
3. If you are lacking space for towels in your linen closet–think decorative baskets with rolled towels, both decorative and great storage and also can be hung at ceiling level.
4. Get an over the door storage caddy for hair tools such as curling irons, flat irons and hair dryers!
5. Store spare toilet paper in a basket on top of your toilet with some dried flowers for added interest.
6. Think space saving bins that attach to your bathroom cabinet door for those little things that always get lost.
7. Magnetic strips for clippers, scissors, clips and such.
8. Try using a Lazy Susan under your cabinet to make a small space more accessible.
9. If space is available, think an over the toilet wrought iron French pastry shelf for storing towels, toiletries, and toilet paper.
10. Stacking shelves in your bathroom makes good use of vertical space.
11. Try flipping your shelves, especially ones with decorative side brackets for a new look in your bathroom and added storage with sides that keep things in place.
12. Baskets hung on hooks vertically  on top of one another gives you lots of storage space in a small bathroom.
13. Ty a shelf above the door it makes good use of space that is usually not used in a bathroom.
14. Glass apothecary jars can be great storage for cotton balls, cotton swabs, and colorful bars of soap.
15. The simplest answer, use door organizers so the small stuff doesn’t get lost or get out of hand.

Great Winter Projects to Increase Bathroom Storage

Try some of these do-it-yourself projects this winter when the days are cold and you want to get organized.

1. Repurpose a bookshelf to install over a toilet or at the end of a bathtub.
2. Try installing your towel bars on the back of your bathroom door, which frees up wall space for more storage ideas.
3. Install shelves behind a full-length mirror that opens on hinges to reveal new storage space.
4. Create storage shelves between studs in your bathroom, 16 inches on center is what you have and they make for great cubbies.
5. Dress your pedestal sink with a skirt and create storage underneath.
6. Attach self-sticking organizers to the inside of your bathroom cabinets.
7. Store your children’s bath toys in a hollowed-out step stool.
8. Hang an antique drawer as a shelf in your bathroom.
9. Install an expandable organizer under your sink cabinet.
10. Create spring loaded storage areas under built in bathroom tub.

Just using a few of these bathroom organizing ideas can take your bathroom and your morning routine from chaos to bliss. Delegating your house cleaning to Crystal Clear Home will help keep your newly organized bathroom and your entire how sparkling clean. Call us at 707-827-3316 or fill our our quote or contact form and one of our cleaning specialists will give you a call.