13 Storage Solutions for Bathrooms You’ll Love
The secret to tidy towels and beautifully organised bottles? Brilliant storage, of course! Tuck into this smorgasbord of super ideas
Creating adequate storage is crucial to the success of any room, and the bathroom is no exception. In fact, we often overlook the need for storage in this much-used area or are challenged by the small dimensions of the space.
But whatever the size or style of your bathroom, there are nifty ways to work storage in, from tiny built-in drawers that exploit unused pockets around a bath, to handsome shelves and vintage baskets.
But whatever the size or style of your bathroom, there are nifty ways to work storage in, from tiny built-in drawers that exploit unused pockets around a bath, to handsome shelves and vintage baskets.
Use every scrap of space
A fitted bathroom often contains little pockets of underused space. Think about exploiting them by building in neat little drawers. As many bathroom products are small-scale, even a tiny sliver of additional storage can be really useful.
A fitted bathroom often contains little pockets of underused space. Think about exploiting them by building in neat little drawers. As many bathroom products are small-scale, even a tiny sliver of additional storage can be really useful.
Bag a basket
Baskets do vital storage work around the house and make a wonderful addition to a bathroom. The perfect vessel into which to heap towels, a basket will also bring a softly rustic note to any space, warming up marble or a pale scheme.
Check out 10 great uses for wire and wicker baskets
Baskets do vital storage work around the house and make a wonderful addition to a bathroom. The perfect vessel into which to heap towels, a basket will also bring a softly rustic note to any space, warming up marble or a pale scheme.
Check out 10 great uses for wire and wicker baskets
Order a side
Now this is clever! Any built-in bath contains dead space within its supporting structure, so why not convert it into storage?
This bath has a hinged side revealing slim compartments, which the homeowner uses to store slippers, but which could equally handle face cloths, spare soap or bottles of cleaning fluid.
Is a freestanding or fitted bath right for your scheme?
Now this is clever! Any built-in bath contains dead space within its supporting structure, so why not convert it into storage?
This bath has a hinged side revealing slim compartments, which the homeowner uses to store slippers, but which could equally handle face cloths, spare soap or bottles of cleaning fluid.
Is a freestanding or fitted bath right for your scheme?
Try some pull-out perfection
Forget rummaging in the back of a cupboard for that tiny bottle of nail varnish and opt for pull-out shelves instead. This storage solution has long been used in kitchens, but it’s perfect for a bathroom, too.
This style of storage can be built into a narrow space (ideal in a small bathroom), and since most bathing essentials are fairly small, it offers just the right size of storage.
Forget rummaging in the back of a cupboard for that tiny bottle of nail varnish and opt for pull-out shelves instead. This storage solution has long been used in kitchens, but it’s perfect for a bathroom, too.
This style of storage can be built into a narrow space (ideal in a small bathroom), and since most bathing essentials are fairly small, it offers just the right size of storage.
Float away
Wall-mounted storage, floating off the floor, keeps a bathroom looking light, and this space demonstrates an alternative to the solid basin and drawers unit often seen today.
Here, the basin and worktop are one integral piece, with a storage unit fitted a little way below. This creates lots of pleasing horizontal lines (rather than one block) and the surface of the drawers becomes an additional shelf.
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Wall-mounted storage, floating off the floor, keeps a bathroom looking light, and this space demonstrates an alternative to the solid basin and drawers unit often seen today.
Here, the basin and worktop are one integral piece, with a storage unit fitted a little way below. This creates lots of pleasing horizontal lines (rather than one block) and the surface of the drawers becomes an additional shelf.
Browse more bathrooms with wall-mounted sinks.
Create a bathroom larder!
This wall of storage perfection is like the bathroom equivalent of a walk-in kitchen larder. Open shelves, clever compartments – it’s all here. It’s proof that, when well organised, anything from toilet rolls to hand towels can look gorgeous.
This wall of storage perfection is like the bathroom equivalent of a walk-in kitchen larder. Open shelves, clever compartments – it’s all here. It’s proof that, when well organised, anything from toilet rolls to hand towels can look gorgeous.
Fit it floor-to-ceiling
If you have a spacious bathroom with a wall that doesn’t have sanitaryware fitted against it, capitalise on the vertical space and build in floor-to-ceiling storage. This can then function as a wardrobe or provide overflow storage for other rooms, as well as easily holding all your bathroom essentials.
If you have a spacious bathroom with a wall that doesn’t have sanitaryware fitted against it, capitalise on the vertical space and build in floor-to-ceiling storage. This can then function as a wardrobe or provide overflow storage for other rooms, as well as easily holding all your bathroom essentials.
Add a hook… or three
So simple, so effective: hooks offer essential and easily accessible storage space. Perfect for robes and clothes discarded before a bath, towels hung within grabbing distance of the tub, and anything fitted with a loop, from a back brush to old-school soap-on-a-rope!
So simple, so effective: hooks offer essential and easily accessible storage space. Perfect for robes and clothes discarded before a bath, towels hung within grabbing distance of the tub, and anything fitted with a loop, from a back brush to old-school soap-on-a-rope!
Find something freestanding
The key ingredients of a bathroom are a given (the bath/shower, basin and toilet), but, if space allows, have fun ‘furnishing’ it with additional pieces, just as you would any other room.
Here, a handsome shelving unit stores essentials, such as towels, and has room left over for displaying favourite pieces, too.
Discover how to use open storage beautifully in the bathroom
The key ingredients of a bathroom are a given (the bath/shower, basin and toilet), but, if space allows, have fun ‘furnishing’ it with additional pieces, just as you would any other room.
Here, a handsome shelving unit stores essentials, such as towels, and has room left over for displaying favourite pieces, too.
Discover how to use open storage beautifully in the bathroom
Raise expectations
Just look how much storage you can work along a single bathroom wall. To cram in maximum drawer space, this basin is fitted slightly higher than conventional waist height, but for adults, a raised position can actually be easier to use. No more stooping to wash your face!
You can find lots more bathrooms with cool vessel sinks like this one in our photo section.
Just look how much storage you can work along a single bathroom wall. To cram in maximum drawer space, this basin is fitted slightly higher than conventional waist height, but for adults, a raised position can actually be easier to use. No more stooping to wash your face!
You can find lots more bathrooms with cool vessel sinks like this one in our photo section.
Slim down
This bathroom in a London apartment is very small, but that doesn’t mean it’s a storage desert. Each of the mirrors fronts a slim but tall cabinet, providing crucial space for stashing all manner of lotions and potions. The basin sits on a built-in surface that creates room for more bottles or bathroom bits, while the shelf below can hold towels.
That shelf is a great choice of storage in this narrow room. Rather than a unit with doors, which would block off the space, a shelf helps to create a feeling of depth.
This bathroom in a London apartment is very small, but that doesn’t mean it’s a storage desert. Each of the mirrors fronts a slim but tall cabinet, providing crucial space for stashing all manner of lotions and potions. The basin sits on a built-in surface that creates room for more bottles or bathroom bits, while the shelf below can hold towels.
That shelf is a great choice of storage in this narrow room. Rather than a unit with doors, which would block off the space, a shelf helps to create a feeling of depth.
Mix it up
A combination of rails, hooks and shelves can answer a great many bathroom storage needs, as this nifty set-up demonstrates.
Of course, bathrooms need storage for bulky items, such as bottles of shampoo and towels, but compact storage with plenty of compartments is the perfect solution for all those smaller things typically kept in a bathroom. Think toothbrushes, dental floss, cotton buds and small tubes or jars.
TELL US…
What kind of bathroom storage do you find most handy? Share your ideas in the Comments below.
A combination of rails, hooks and shelves can answer a great many bathroom storage needs, as this nifty set-up demonstrates.
Of course, bathrooms need storage for bulky items, such as bottles of shampoo and towels, but compact storage with plenty of compartments is the perfect solution for all those smaller things typically kept in a bathroom. Think toothbrushes, dental floss, cotton buds and small tubes or jars.
TELL US…
What kind of bathroom storage do you find most handy? Share your ideas in the Comments below.
A wire shelf unit makes a great addition to a bathroom. It adds both storage and display space, brightens up a dull wall and is lightweight and easy to hang, too.