Bathroom Ideas for Organized Living
in an Organized Home

These bathroom ideas for organized living start with giving careful consideration to the function of the bathroom so that you can organize the space and the people who use it to best suit the functions it was designed for.

This very special room is used for:

• personal hygiene - your cleanliness starts here in the bathroom.
• personal grooming - you shave, do your hair, brush your teeth and put on your makeup here.
• biological functions - do I really have to explain what this is?

Here are five great bathroom ideas for organized living that can be used to make sure that the bathroom can function as the space it was designed to be.

1. Tame the towel clutter - Instead of having a lot of towels in the bathroom place one or two sets in the bathroom then install bathroom towel bars, an over the door towel rack or free standing bathroom towel racks in each bedroom so that family members can be responsible for their own towels. You can even plug in a heated towel rack in each bedroom if you want to provide a bit of bribery for this self reliance!


2. Move the Pharmacy and First Aid Station to Another Room

   If you did not have indoor plumbing would you store your medications and first aid supplies in the outhouse?

   Storing pharmaceuticals in the bathroom creates a safety hazard for young children.

   Store your medications out of reach of children. An upper kitchen cabinet is best and use a storage basket to contain them all.

   It seems rather ridiculous that the dirtiest of human activities (elimination) and the cleanest (dressing wounds) would be expected to occur in the same room.

   I recommend moving all the first aid supplies and medications to another room in the house so that the bathroom can be for biologial and personal hygiene and grooming functions only.

   Medications should not be stored in the bathroom because heat and moisture will cause the medications to degrade over time. Your bathroom medicine cabinet is a great storage area for many items and anything that will fit in there EXCEPT your medication should go there.

   
3. End drawer disorder - Drawers in a bathroom can become disorderly very quickly. There are so many loose items in the bathroom drawers and they can shift all over the place from constant opening and closing of the drawers. Drawer organization ideas for the bathroom include:
   • use drawer dividers to create separate compartments in your bathroom drawers to keep loose items separated.
   
   
   • Use non-slip drawer liner paper to stop items from shifting when you open and close the drawers.
   
   
   • these clear plastic storage boxes can be used to help contain all those small items that often create clutter in your bathroom drawers. These boxes are ones recommended in the video on How to Organize Your Bathroom
   
   

   Don't have drawers in your bathroom? Then use plastic storage drawers

4. Create a place for everything - use specialty bathroom organizers for one of a kind items like toilet paper and the hair dryer.


5. Keep supplies close to where they are used - install shower organizers in the shower so that soap and other supplies are always close at hand.
   
   Place cleaning supplies under the sink in a plastic storage basket so that everyone has the necessary supplies to clean up after their own bath or shower.