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I’ve given you a tour of my master bathroom before {see tour here}, but I have never shown you how I organize the drawers and cabinets in my bathroom. I actually organized the bathroom in our last home like this and when we moved, everything fit in the new house cabinets and drawers perfectly. One way to know you have a good system: it is transferable!
First of all, an organized bathroom starts with the counters. Begin organizing your bathroom by deciding what you want on your counter surface. Use trays and baskets to keep things corralled. I’ve thought about a basket for my stack of white wash cloths (I use a new cloth every night to give myself the spa feeling at home), but I’m still searching for the perfect one.
This simple solution for under cabinets has worked for us for years. The cute chalk labels were a recent addition, a pleasant step up from my label maker generic looking labels. But really, it is in a bathroom cabinet, it doesn’t have to look cute. Of course, if you are taking pictures that hundreds of people will view on your blog … well, you might splurge on adorable labels. Or just do it for yourself, whatever. Really, though, these shoe box sized plastic bins are perfect for cabinet storage of bathroom odds and ends. They are stack-able and keeps things separated, so it is easy to see what is stored inside.
I’m a big fan of white towels in the master bathroom. The awesome thing about going with all white towels is that you can replace 1 or 2 as needed and it doesn’t even have to be the same style towel, because the white makes it all blend together.
I use the foot bath for my home pedicures. {I had a pedicure 3 years ago that changed my life – the technician gave me the best advice ever and showed me how to do my own pedicures at home and keep my feet soft.}
My hubby is pretty low maintenance, so his stuff takes up half of the top drawer and my stuff takes up all the other space. These drawer inserts came from Walmart. I measured the drawer and went to the store to find something that would fill up the whole space. Our top drawer:
I sit on a stool to do my hair and makeup, so this drawer contains my hair and makeup stuff because it is the easiest to see and reach while I’m sitting. The drawer is a bit deeper than the top one, which allows me to use the deeper plastic bin for my hair stuff. Our middle drawer:
The bottom drawer fits my hair appliances nicely. One of my biggest challenges is actually putting away my hair dryer and straightener. I’m working on it! It is one of my current Fresh Start goals.
My five-year old told me honestly last week “mommy, you are messy in the bathroom” when she saw my dryer on the floor and the straightener on the counter. The bathroom is where I am my messiest! I can be a bit clumsy and I’ve been known to spill and squirt makeup and lotions all over the place. (Don’t look too close or you will see some makeup foundation I recently spilled on the rug.) The more organized it is, the easier it is to clean up after myself. True story.
None of these organization ideas are complicated, and hopefully that helps you realize how easily you can copy my ideas into your own bathroom! Simple!
From my home to yours,
Mary
Is the stuff in the shoe box bins things you use or are they extras of what you already have. (Is that your 1 year storage of bathroom supplies?)
Genius, as usual Mary! 🙂 Would love to see a tutorial on the pedicures someday!
I love the shoe box idea! i have something similar, but it always gets SO messy!
Karla @ Simplistic Chaos
Love, love this! I just started buying all these little plastic boxes at Dollar Tree and I’m crazy putting them all over my house. It’s so fun!
Very organized!! Love the tips!! I am hosting a new Pinterest Power party and would love for you to link up this and any other projects that you have!!
http://www.thetaylor-house.com/2013/01/10/pinterest-power-party-1.html
Chrissy
I have been looking for ways to organize my bathroom and pretty much every other room in my house. You have given me some great ideas!!!
I am so jealous of your bathroom. I signed up to get email alerts from your blog and look forward to learning how to better organize my house. It is my New Year’s resolution after all.
What a great idea! I love your hand writing
Awe have the same style cabinets, and this makes so much more sense than the way I have it. Great job. And yes, I too would love to know how to do a pedicure at home. 🙂
I would love to know the at home pedicure secret! 🙂 Great post on organization. I just got my counter top clutter free. Now I have good ideas of how to do the same for the drawers and cabinets. 🙂
Great post! I would love & appreciate it if you’d share your pedicure secrets. Blessings!
You made me laugh with your thoughts about the “no need for cute labels in the bathroon”. I always have a mental dilemma with how far I can go making everything look cute!
I love to be organized. Organizing my house is a huge priority this year. I am hosting a new link party and would love it if you would link this up.
http://www.ifitsnotbaroquedesignblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/tuesday-link-party-2.html
Great pictures. Good job on the bathroom organization tutorials.
Of course it has to look cute!! Costco has a large pack of white washcloths. I love them too!
I wish I could copy your ideas. Or bathrooms are so tiny it is laughable. There is very very little storage space (although it definitely could use a good organization, any ideas on what to do with a straightener, blow dryer etc when all you have is tiny awkwardly arranged under the sink storage?) Our bathroom pantry is in our bedroom. I do like your bins idea for under the sink, I will have to look to see if they fit. Or maybe I can use them in the bathroom pantry. I love how yours looks! I wish I had that kind of space. Oh and I am really curious about the pedicure tips that you got. Have you posted them before? Or is there any way that you could post them? I think we could all use life changing pedicures 🙂
I would love it if you would share this (and anything else you have been working on) at my linky party! http://domesticrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/01/friday-fascinations-8-everything-linky.html
I saw on pinterest a storage solution for hair dryer and straightner where you put pcv pipe on inside of cabinate door and slide them in.
I am so glad I found your site. I truly love your ideas and will be visiting your site frequently. Thank you for all your excellent tips.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing.
Do you have a post on your at home spa treatment??? I would love to read it. If you do not could you please tell us your secret or do a post and let us know. PLEASE!!!!
Yes! It is on my list for one of these days. So hard to photograph the process while I do it! 🙂
I keep checking back to see if you have shared the pedicure secret yet! I got one of those foot spas for Christmas so now I’m itching to know.
Yes, I want to share … maybe I should get a volunteer. I tried to do this post and the pictures came out awful that I did myself from the odd angle of far away from my feet! I’ll keep trying. 🙂
My feet are always a mess! Have you shared the pedicure secret yet? I would love to know! Thanks
I actually took all the pictures last summer to create a post about pedicures … but I hated the pictures. They all came out fuzzy!! Maybe I’ll try again in the spring when my broken foot heals.
Hope you post the pedicure tips!! We wouldn’t mind fuzzy photos…!
I am hoping to finally get to that sometime. 🙂
Where did you get your chalk labels?
I get them from all over. I’ve ordered from Amazon, bought at the local craft store, Walmart, office supply store. They are starting to appear everywhere.
Love you organization and LOVE that you have Mary Kay in the drawers!
Thanks 🙂
I moved in with my bf a couple of years ago, he has a teenaged daughter. They already had all spaces occupied in the bathroom so I have been living out of the bedroom closet. Thank you this post I think I might be able to move me and my two teenagers into the bathroom now!!!
I’m glad I could help. 🙂
I love the container ideas trying to get more organized.
They really help optimize the space. Good luck getting organized!
Love your under the sink organization. I would love to feature this in a blog post I’m planning on Small Bathroom Ideas. Would you mind if I used a photo and linked it back to this blog post? Let me know! Have a great day.
No problem – thanks for asking.
Just letting you know that this post was featured on my recent post titled “12 Small Bathroom Ideas”. Here a link if you’d like to check it out:
http://www.thejohnsonsplusdog.com/2016/01/18/small-bathroom-ideas/
Best,
Chelsea @ The Johnsons Plus Dog
That is great. Thanks for sharing!
Love you bathroom organization. I did the same with colored rectangle baskets from the Dollar Store. Office cards sized to fit for labels tied on with ribbons.
What a smart idea for labels! Doesn’t it feel so good to have an organized bathroom? 🙂
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Thanks!