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If you're short on space in the bathroom, there are
a number of ways you can optimize the space you do have
to work with. Here are some ideas that have worked great
for our family:
- My daughter and I don't have a lot of jewelry, but
we keep the jewelry we do have in the bathroom. Something
I found that's really neat to organize your jewelry
is a coffee mug holder. We've found several very inexpensive
at yard sales. They look like miniature coat racks.
They're small stands that have posts sticking out of
them to hang coffee mugs on. These work great for hanging
necklaces and bracelets on. We have one in each of our
bathrooms.
- Small corner shelves that are meant to go on the
wall fit nicely into the corners of your bathroom counters.
These are easy to find at yard sales and give you several
shelves to put makeup, knickknacks, etc., on. I keep
a small pottery bowl on one of my shelves to keep my
good rings in one place (so I'll know where they are).
My daughter and I have fun shopping for little one-of-a
kind finds like these at local craft shows.
- My husband came up with another neat idea for organizing
jewelry. If you have a big mirror in your bathroom,
you could place several suction cups with hooks on them
on the mirror and hang your necklaces or bracelets on
the hooks.
- The bathroom is a great place to keep your bathrobe.
Place a self-adhesive hook on either the back of your
bathroom door, or on the wall behind the door. Hang
your bathrobe up after each use, and it's ready for
next time. Put up one for each family member in the
bathroom they most often use.
- My daughter always forgets to get out a towel before
she gets in the shower. We bought a ring-shaped towel
holder (they take up less room), and put it on the wall
right by the edge of the bathtub. Now when she's in
the shower she just has to reach out to grab the towel.
- A way to organize the clutter on your bathroom counter
is to buy a plastic tub with a handle on top. Place
all your bathroom accessories (hair sprays, lotions)
in the tub and place under the counter. When you're
ready to use, just take the tub out. When you're done
put the tub back under the counter.
- Shower caddies are an inexpensive way to organize
your shampoo, conditioner, razor, soap, etc., in the
shower. We got the kind that hooks over the shower head
and it kept slipping down, so we eventually ended up
screwing it to the wall. It works great and keeps everything
in one place.
- If you have shower doors that tend to get water/soap
scum build-up on them, keep a water squeegee (like you
use on the windshield of your car) handy to wipe down
the doors every time you take a shower. We keep ours
in the shower hanging on the wall from a suction cup.
- We don't have a whole lot of cabinet space in our
bathrooms, so we bought some small shelves to put above
the toilets. On these shelves we keep washcloths, hair
spray, toothpaste. |
