17 Fundamental Tiny Bathroom Storage & Organization Ideas You Need To Know

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Organizing a bathroom can be complicated, especially if it’s tiny. It is one of our most used rooms in the house, and it’s also the room where your day usually starts and ends. A good organization is key to make it work even on those most hectic days, so read below my 17 best tiny bathroom storage and organization hacks and ideas.

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First things first, whenever you are planning on organization and storage in any space, any room, and in any situation, I would always recommend taking out the most important tools of all time; pen and paper.

Important questions to think about before organizing a tiny bathroom:

What is the main problem with my bathroom?
What could I do to reduce this problem?
►► In my example above, the main problem is the size and lack of storage.
Could I possibly do my makeup in the bedroom and this way save the trouble of storing the makeup and the hairdryer in the bathroom?

What are the primary and secondary purposes of this room?
►► When you know the main function of the room, you know what you need to store there.
List in order the most important items you have to store in the room and cannot be moved anywhere else.

For example, you definitely want to keep your toilet roll in the bathroom/toilet, but how about towels, would somewhere else in the house be more space for them? I know it is not the most practical to go to get a fresh towel from the bedroom, but the humidity from the shower in this example is not the best for towels, and they may start to smell a bit musty.

Where is unused space left in your room?
►► In my example an empty space next to the door and above the toilet was unused. Write down all your storage possibilities and connect them with the items you just wrote down.

And these are the ideas I came up with for this bathroom. If you make the plans properly, you will make sure that you have storage for everything you need and that there won’t be any unexpected issues later. Obviously, in this example the bathroom is tiny, but the same principle goes with any room in the house.

Right, said Fred! Let’s have a look at different ideas on how to save space in your small bathroom.

1 – Hang towels over the door

I really like towel hangers like these, as you can hang your towels as flat as possible. If you just hang them from a hook, they don’t have time to dry properly and might cause some mold and mildew issues. Behind the door is a great place to hang them as it is a flat surface with otherwise fairly limited possibilities to utilize it.

2 – Build over the toilet storage

There are a few handy ways of doing this; you can just install some shelves or buy a ready-made shelving unit like this, but this could be easily DIYed – just get a normal bookshelf, remove the bottom shelves, and voila, perfect over-the-toilet-shelf.

3 – Get a trolley

Trolleys are handy as you can always move them closer to you if needed. This one is from IKEA, but as they became hugely popular over the last few years, you can pretty much find them everywhere nowadays.

4 – Get a slim shelving unit

Luckily there are loads of affordable slim bathroom shelving units on the market so you can utilize even the smallest corner of your bathroom. For example. have a look at this compact shelving unit – you can find one for just 10 dollars from IKEA.

If you can’t find a shelf to your liking, how about some old ladders?

5 – Hang storage from the ceiling

When all the available landing and wall space has been used, how about hanging storage from the ceiling? This rope basket tutorial can be found here.

6 – Get pretty containers and label everything

If you want to make your tiny bathroom appear bigger, coherent look without clutter helps to achieve this. To avoid a cluttered look, get some pretty containers and label everything – then it is also easier to know where everything is and makes those busy mornings way easier.

These are my favorite soap dispenser bottles I got from a supermarket for 3 dollars each. A bargain!

7 – Hang another curtain rod

Hang another curtain rod inside your shower or a bathtub and use S-hooks to hang your toiletries. This is also a handy place to hang something really wet to dry, like a coat, for example.

8 – Install wall soap dispensers in the shower

I wouldn’t go back after using this hack. It makes showering so much quicker and easier when you can just easily push the dispenser to get the shampoo instead of dropping the soapy bottle for the hundredth time.

9 – Install more shower caddies

Extra shelving is always good, but what if you can’t drill holes into the shower walls? How about a shower caddy you can just hang over the showerhead?

10 – Use magnets

Am I the only one whose hairpins tend to spread everywhere? This great magnet hack allows you to easily store all your small items hassle-free.

11 – Use paper clips

Not only the paper clips push the toothpaste closer to the front, but you can also hang them easily from an s-hook or a command hook inside your bathroom cabinet door. Remember the extra curtain rod hack above? Hang your toiletries from it with this hack.