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How to Organize Your Bathroom
Do you have trouble finding what you need in your bathroom? Maybe your bathroom is small, or you don’t have a linen closet for towels, and you just don’t know what to do with all of your toiletries. Here are some ideas for organizing your bathroom.
If you don’t have a linen closet for towels, organize your bath towels, washcloths, and hand towels using a stand alone rack that fits above your toilet. These racks come ready to use or with some assembly required. They are available in plastic, wire, metal, and wood. They are perfect for using to organize your small bathroom.
If you find that you have trouble finding things in your medicine cabinet, you need to organize it. Take everything out of the medicine cabinet in your bathroom, and organize the various bottles and medications into groups, such as pain killers, personal medications, facial cleansers, and shaving supplies.
Then, put the groups back in the medicine cabinet together neatly. Remember, if you have children you want to keep all of the medications on the top shelf!
Some bathrooms are simple, small, and have little or no room for storage of makeup and other toiletries. If you have the room, you can get a small, plastic, inexpensive three tier shelf and place it in one corner of your bathroom.
Then, place bottles, deoderants, shaving creams, and the like on the top shelf. You can purchase a makeup box to store makeup, hair accessories, and other feminine items, and place it on another shelf. Use the bottom shelf to store extra toilet paper or towels.
Perhaps you find that dirty clothes overrun your bathroom. If you have a basement and a handy man in the house, this too is an easy fix.
I know one man who cut a hole in the bottom of his linen closet outside his bathroom, and used aluminum tubing to create a laundry chute leading directly in front of the washer in the basement.
Another man I know cut a hole in the floor of his bathroom, lined it with metal floor trim, and fixed it with a door. When clothes were tossed down this makeshift laundry chute, they landed neatly in the basement in a laundry bin.
Shelves are another great way to organize your bathroom.
They are great for holding bath accessories like sponges, shampoos, conditioners, soaps, bubble baths, bath salts, and other items for pampering. They can also hold lotions, towels, washcloths, and other items.
The best thing about shelving is that it doesn’t take up any of your already cramped bathroom space.
As you can see, there are many ways to organize your bathroom. For more ideas, check out the internet, home shows, and the storage section of your local department store. |