Bathroom Storage Ideas

A beautiful, comfortable, spacious bathroom where everything is located with rationality and practicality is the dream of any of us. In large bathrooms, organizing places for storing the necessary accessories is not difficult and does not require special ingenuity. But when arranging small-sized bathrooms, very often you have to solve the problem with the lack of free space for placing shelves, cabinets, chests of drawers. However, having shown creative imagination, listening to the advice of designers and builders, you can transform the bathroom into the original room:

There are many ways to equip special places in the bathroom for storing items. With the proper organization of space, you can compactly place a lot of useful and necessary things.

Traditional ways to equip storage

The easiest way to pick up ready-made washbasins with cabinets. But not always the design of plumbing pipes and hoses, the layout of the room allows the use of standard furniture, so most often residents have to deal with individual projects of the storage system.

The easiest option is to construct modular shelves from several cubic-shaped drawers. This option is the least expensive and quite affordable for everyone:

Ordinary racks can be varied with shelves of various sizes and configurations. Such open structures look very impressive and unusual:

The most popular and traditional place where you can place bottles with hygiene products, boxes and bags with detergents, towels and much more is the space under the wash basin:

Built-in cabinets with doors are harmoniously combined with open shelves for storing towels and other items:

For greater convenience, it is better to place shelves with towels next to the washbasin or shower:

Drawers

It’s easy to place drawers under the sink, divided inside by partitions - this is a great option to keep all the necessary items in order. The configuration of the inner drawers can be the most diverse, depending on whether you will store objects in a horizontal or vertical position:

Boxes under the washbasins can be equipped with metal bars on which towels can be hung:

Pull-out shelves on pull-out mechanisms are very convenient and practical: you can get the most distant objects:

Rolling out boxes with a vertical way of storing items are very convenient and compact:

Such vertical racks can be equipped with additional sockets for hair dryers, stylers and other devices:

Embedded Designs

Built-in furniture is very convenient and practical, as it is created directly for a specific project and takes into account all the nuances of the layout. Large built-in storage system, where there are open shelves, and cabinets with doors, and drawers will allow you to keep all the necessary accessories in order:

Storage spaces can be a system that combines individual cabinets under the sink and shelves, chests of drawers and cabinets built into the recesses:

Symmetrically located niches are perfect for arranging shelves. They will give a finished look to the interior in the bathroom:

Also, any recess in the wall of the bathroom can be used to organize coasters and shelves. This method does not require the search for additional space and building materials:

These supports can be placed in close proximity to the bathtub or shower equipment. This is very convenient because shelves make a monolithic unity with the construction of the wall. If you finish them with the same material as the walls themselves, then these mini-niches are easy to clean from pollution:

Using the built-in design with shelves and cabinets, it is easy to hide any flaws in the room, pipes, counters and other equipment:

Mounted systems

Cantilever structures for placing bath accessories and various cosmetics are the most suitable option for small rooms. Shelves can be made of a variety of materials.

Metal structures will organically fit into the interior of the loft style (it is also called industrial):

Wooden shelves look very stylish in the interior of the bathroom and are suitable for environmental and rustic styles:

Glass shelves equipped with additional lighting create a feeling of weightlessness and will be appropriate in any style:

Cantilever models of shelves are convenient and rational: they do not take up meters of free space, do not clutter up the space, they can be located on any free sections of the walls below and above:

Hanging cabinets located under the washbasin are not only a compact place to store things, such models allow you to comfortably sit near the sink:

If the chest of drawers with the console system is large enough, you must create additional supports at the edges. The distance from the floor to the beginning of the drawers can also be used as an additional storage space if you mount, for example, a trellis stand:

Usually, the wall above the toilet remains unused, but in a small bathroom this area can be used with rationalization benefits if light shelves are attached there:

What to consider when organizing storage in the bathroom

The necessary nuances in the arrangement of bathrooms:

1. good ventilation, as towels, bathrobes and wicker accessories, wooden parts quickly become unusable due to excess moisture;
2. good lighting to easily find the right items;
3. use materials that are easy to clean, do not rust and on which water spots are not very noticeable.

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