How To Declutter the Bathroom – Simple and Easy Tips
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After the kitchen, one of the rooms most in need of decluttering in a home is usually the bathroom! It is so easy for us to collect all kinds of things in the bathroom drawers and cabinets that we often end up with way more stuff than we can actually use. While I am personally not a huge fan of the term “minimalist,” the bathroom is one area that I tend to keep minimal. I just don’t use a lot of different products and I clean out what I do use regularly. Today, I am going to share how to declutter the bathroom with some easy tips so your bathroom can become the retreat you’ve always wanted!
Ideas to Declutter the Bathroom Counter
First, let’s talk about the bathroom counter. This is probably the most obvious place of clutter in your bathroom, so it’s essential that you declutter it just to free up some visual space.
The first step is to take a good look at what you’re storing on the counter. Can any of those items be stored in the drawers or bathroom cabinets? Why are you keeping those items on the counter? Can you organize the items on the counter in an efficient way so that you can still access them easily, but you actually have clear counter space?
Do you have a medicine cabinet in your bathroom to keep items like tooth paste, skincare products, and other little things you reach for on a regular basis? The medicine cabinet is a good place to store the types of items you reach for regularly but don’t want on your counters. This is also an obvious place to keep first aid supplies.
One of my biggest issues was trying to figure out how to store my hair products and hair accessories. I decided to purchase this over the cabinet door organizer. It works great even in a small bathroom and is awesome for storing things like hair dryers, hairbrushes, hair straighteners, and other hair care essentials.
Now, I know there are a lot of opinions on where to keep toothbrushes, but I do keep mine on the counter. I have a toothbrush holder right by my bathroom sink and I keep my toothbrushes in it. The only other bathroom items that have permanent homes on my bathroom counter are my water flosser, hand soap, and a dish to hold my every day jewelry.
I have arranged it so that everything else can easily fit in a drawer or cabinet. Not only does having few items on the counter create the illusion of a clutter-free bathroom, it also makes the counter much easier to clean.
Bathroom Purge
Now that you’ve decided what items can stay on the counter and what items need a home elsewhere, let’s get to work on purging all of the bathroom clutter. Get rid of nail polishes that have gone bad, lotions you’re never going to use, old perfumes and cologne, empty bottles that have been left sitting, and all the icky little small items you tend to collect but will never use.
Plus, all of the obvious trash you may have laying around. Make sure to check expiration dates and if you haven’t used some of your bathroom products in a long time, throw them out!
This is going to be where the bulk of your decluttering happens. Make sure you’re taking advantage of only keeping the items that you actually use in the bathroom and getting rid of those unused items. It’s so freeing to let go of things you don’t need.
During your entire bathroom purge, take a good look at your decorative items. Do you really enjoy your bathroom decorations, or are they just collecting dust? I prefer to only keep a few decorations in the bathroom. Less to clean is a win-win for me.
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Ditch Multiple Bathroom Products
You may not like to hear this, but do you really need to hoard product? How much space are 20 tubes of toothpaste, 15 bottles of body wash, and 30 bottles of shampoo taking up in your bathroom? Maybe you’re a couponer and you get things on sale, but do they all have to live in your bathroom? Do you really have room for that much stuff? Can you keep your stockpile somewhere else that you don’t hang out everyday?
If you need storage solutions for multiple products, I have found that a linen closet is a great place to keep all of those extras. I personally keep not only extra linens and hand towels in mine, but also extra bath products and bathroom cleaning supplies.
I personally only buy one or two items at a time, even for my kids’ bathroom. It takes us a while to go through shampoo. I can buy our regular toiletry items on a regular basis when I do my grocery shopping. This helps me free up a lot of space in my bathroom and is a great solution for smaller bathrooms.
How To Organize Toiletries in the Bathroom
Let’s talk about how to organize those toiletries that we do keep in our bathrooms. My master bathroom is pretty unique because the space under the sink in the vanity is open. We currently rent our home and it was built to be wheelchair accessible, so we only have six drawers in our vanity to store toiletries.
My husband and I each have a side and an acrylic tray in our top drawers. I keep toothpaste, floss, nail clippers, extra razors, and my husband’s deodorant on one side, and I keep lip balm contact stuff, my glasses case and hair ties and pins on my side. These drawer organizers keep items separate so the drawers actually act as a functional space. Our other drawers hold hair items, nail polish, facial moisturizers, and my make-up is in a case in a bottom drawer. Easy peasy.
If you need a great way to store small items such as cotton balls, you can definitely use mason jars and a nice decorative tray as a bathroom organizer to keep those often used items in easy reach.
Bathroom Storage Ideas
I am a big fan of small baskets for bathroom storage. Because we have a fairly large bathroom and so little cabinet space, my husband added three small cabinets to maximize our storage space. We placed one small cabinet next to the tub. I can put candles and my current book on the top of the cabinet, and I keep a small basket with my body lotions inside it.
Another cabinet holds all of our towels, wash cloths, and extra soaps.
The last cabinet is beside the toilet. I have a very large basket in this cabinet holding my Method bathroom cleaner, antibacterial wipes, extra toilet paper, and plastic bags to be used as trash bags. Feminine products are kept in the drawer of this cabinet.
Be strategic in where you store items in the bathroom. It is wise to make sure you place things next to where you will use them! The towel cabinet is within reach of the tub, the toilet paper and feminine products are next to the toilet, and all of our other items are in the vanity.
Now that you have fixed your cluttered bathroom you can sit back and enjoy your well-organized bathroom space!
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I put in an over the toilet rack and have the top shelf with 2 large baskets side by side that hood my qtips, cotton balls, hair supplies and feminine hygiene items. Other shelf is stack of towels, a basket with rolled washcloths and my makeup mirror and a candle. I’m over toilet racks are awesome!