The following post discusses 10 budget friendly ideas for organizing the bathroom closet in your home.
As twenty-something finally moving into my own place a few years ago I realized I had way too much stuff that I didn’t need. If you’re looking to get organized especially as we’re moving into a new year it can be a little overwhelming trying to tackle all of the rooms or sections of your place, so try to start small.
If things are getting cluttered and chaotic in your bathroom, and you have access to a bathroom closet, it’s time to start using it more effectively. An organized space results in feeling more free, clean, and comfortable in your place.
Organizing sometimes tends to be expensive, however there are a ton of various shops and options for budget friendly tools to set up your bathroom closet
Quick Tips for Organizing your Bathroom Closet
In general, when organizing your bathroom closet, there are few things to keep in mind.
- Store items you use or need regularly at eye level so that you don’t have to move things around in the closet to frequently
- As you’re organizing, throw out excess items that you no longer need or that are taking up unnecessarily spaces
- Set up time quarterly to review to your closet to make sure things aren’t piling up or in need of another cleaning
Once you’ve taken an assessment of what you want to organize versus throw away, it’s time to figure out how to store everything. Here are some budget-friendly ideas for organizing your bathroom closet
10 Bathroom Closet Organization Ideas
1. Stackable Bins
Stackable bins are great budget friendly organization tool. With various colors, shapes, and price points, stackable bins can be useful for storing multiple types of bathroom items.
2. Open Front Bins
Larger items that may not fit in stackable bins such as linens, towels, extra toilet paper, or other decorative items can sit inside open front bins. These are great for taking up the space of the bottom of the bathroom closet where you may not have dividers or wire racks. Make use of all your space to reduce clutter and keep things easy to find.
3. Hair Tool Holder
4. Wool Baskets
To add variety to your bathroom closet space, weather its aligned to your home’s theme or color scheme, wool baskets are a great way to bring design and color to the space and organize at the same time.
5. Jar Containers
Typical bathroom counters might include a variety of cotton balls, cotton swabs, exfoliator pads, you name it. These types of bathroom items usually come larger bags or boxes, meaning you probably have a ton, especially if you live alone. Jar containers are not only a great way to organize your bathroom counter, but a way to store all the extras you have as well.
6. Shelving
If your bathroom closet isn’t already set up with shelving, you’ll definitely need some, even if you just want to add a few extra to what already exists. Whether they’re wire or wooden, they’ll give you the option of holding bins or other items all on their own making it much easier to organize your bathroom closet.
7. Dividers
If bins or baskets aren’t your thing, or if you just want to add variety in how things are organized, slide in some dividers onto your shelving to separate large, bulky, or other items.
8. Labels
To keep track of everything you’ve stored, be sure to buy or design your labels for all of your storage containers. This is a great way to hold your self accountable for where you plan to store everything in your bathroom closet, and it also gives a clean and aesthetic look.
9. Spinning Turntable
A spinning turntable is the perfect organization tool for storing a lot of related items while still being able to reach different options on a rotating basis. Apply this same concept to your bathroom closet by organizing your products where you may have a ton of options, like skin care or hair, so that you can cycle in and out based on when you need them.
10. Door Pockets
If you have a smaller bathroom closet or one that’s just too full, make sure to utilize your door space by adding hanging door pockets. Similar to shoe holders that may be in your bedroom closet, you can apply the same concept by storing items right on the door for easy reach.
Final tips for organizing your bathroom closet
- Be sure to rotate items overtime, continuously reassessing what you need and where you need it
- Don’t feel as though you need everything in reach immediately
- By organizing efficiently you can move and change out items based on the season, time period or anything else that matters to you
- The main focus is not cluttering up your counters, floor or other rooms with stuff that could be effectively stored.
- Before you start throwing things into baskets and bins, take inventory of what you need and don’t need. Do you have old makeup? Expired hair products? Empty cartons or boxes? Skin care products that you don’t even use anymore? Dump it.
Once you’ve gotten rid of the old, decide on how you want to categorize everything and the best product to hold them. Do this for before buying organizing tools so that you don’t end up with more bins than you actually need.
Example Categories for Organizing
- Hair products
- Hair tools
- Skin care
- Travel essentials, extras (toothbrushes, tooth paste, lotion)
- Jewelry
- Every day body care
- Sheets, towels, linens
Once you figured out how you want to organize everything, cleanly place or stack your items into their appropriate bins or baskets. Make sure to place items that you use regularly towards the front or top of the bin.
Now that you have an organized bathroom closet be sure to keep up maintenance so that it doesn’t get out of hand. As you buy new products place them in the right areas and throw out the ones being replaced. Take regular inventory of your bathroom closet to identify things that you are no using that might be taking up space. You can always reorganize by changing dividers or swapping out baskets and bins.
Happy organizing!
