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Two adults, a toddler, and a tiny bathroom
Hi!
I normally post on TIP. I've gotten the cleaning bug and am trying to organize my very small, cluttered house. My bathroom is the biggest issue. It's a very, very small bathroom (the sink has enough room on it for a bar of soap and my Sonicare toothbrush, to give you an idea of the nearly non-existant counter space). I have a rack over the toilet, there's no room for corner racks (we don't even have enough wall space to hang towels - they're hung on the towel bar in the shower), and the vanity/medicine cabinet are filled to the brim. The door opens right up to the sink, so there's really no usable space behind the door. I'm at a total loss as to trying to organize this room, especially now that we've got a potty chair taking up space. We have a linen closet outside our bedroom door, but that's also very small and filled up with things we do use. With our daughter getting older, there will be MORE stuff sitting around, and I'm tired of looking at it.
I could post a picture later tonight of my bathroom to give a better idea of the small space I'm talking about, but does anyone have any creative ideas to get things put away and out of sight when totally limited on space? I'm completely at a loss. (We have an early 1950s rambler, if that helps anyone with the small spaces associated with them.)
Re: Two adults, a toddler, and a tiny bathroom
Sounds a lot like our bathroom. Before DD was born, I used her room as my "getting ready" room. But when I had to move all my hair & makeup stuff in the bathroom it was hard.
I have all my makeup in a plastic stacker case from Target. Kind of like this
My hair stuff is under the sink in a basket & then I put a magazine box on the back of the door under the sink with command velcro strips to hold my dryer, flat iron & brushes. Like this
Maybe get a plastic hanging shoe rack for the back of your door & stick things in each space. Good luck!
We also have a tiny bathroom. 1st thing I did was store the little potty away and change our toilet seat to this: https://m.buybuybaby.com/buybuybaby/product/detail.do?itemId=16897795
Sorry it's not clicky. I bought ours from home depot a little cheaper. They also have them for elongated toilets, if you have one of those. Since your bathroom is so small can you store things in a linen closet? If you don't have one you can designate part of your closet to be one. We installed shelves in our master closet to store extra towels and bathroom over flow.
If your vanity has storage below, look into the drawers they sell that you can install into cabinets. Like this one: http://homedepot.digby.com/homedepot/product/detail.do?itemId=202808824&categoryId=1138724&path=Home|Storage+&+Organization|Closet+Storage|Drawer+&+Shelf+Organizers|14+in.+Frosted+Nickel+Multi-Use+Basket