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Five places a bathroom gets organized
Storage problems in a bathroom are local. The question over a toilet is tipping, the question in a shower is what is underneath the shelf, and the question under a sink is a drain pipe running through the middle of the space.
Each of these 5 pages reads its zone from the floor upward and marks the height at which a failure starts landing on a person. 3 of the 5 have such a height. The other 2 have nothing overhead at all.
- Floor to 64 inOver the toiletTall storage on a shallow foot.6 listings
- Floor to 80 inInside the showerWet, and always above someone.6 listings
- Floor to 4 inThe floorHard, wet, and walked on barefoot.5 listings
- 31 to 72 inThe vanity counterNo mount, no limit, full in a week.4 listings
- 2 to 30 inUnder the sinkA cabinet with a pipe through it.3 listings
What each zone is actually holding
- Over the toilet
- Spare toilet rolls, which are light and bulky and belong high
- Folded towels, which are heavy and belong low
- Cleaning supplies, which belong low and out of reach of children
- Decorative objects, which are the reason top shelves get loaded and the reason racks go over
- Inside the shower
- Shampoo and conditioner bottles, which are the heaviest things in the enclosure and get heavier as a household grows
- Bar soap, which needs to drain or it dissolves into whatever it is sitting on
- Razors, which should be somewhere a hand finds without looking
- Loofahs and cloths, which need airflow more than they need a shelf
- The floor
- Bath mats and rugs, which are the whole reason this zone exists
- A scale, which needs a flat spot away from the door swing
- A laundry hamper, which wants a corner rather than a walking line
- A toilet brush and plunger in their holders, which need to be reachable and out of the traffic path
- The vanity counter
- Daily-use items that need to be found without opening anything: toothbrush, paste, one hand soap
- Skincare and makeup, which multiply and which need vertical separation to stay findable
- A soap bar, which needs a draining surface or it turns to slurry
- Nothing that lives on the counter merely because there was space
- Under the sink
- Bulk refills, which are heavy and belong on the cabinet floor rather than up high anywhere else
- Cleaning supplies, which need to be together, upright, and out of reach of children
- Spare toiletries, which are the classic thing that gets bought twice because nobody could see the first one
- A small towel, worth keeping there for the leak you have not found yet