Organizing ideas for bathrooms from Albert Wisdom

Lean in to your shelving options.

Speaking of cupboards — skip conventional cabinets and opt for a much more informal approach. Attempt a ladder, particularly one with tray-like ledges, to optimize space above your toilet. Jute baskets supply storage, while the exposed shelves make the ladder a perfect spot for a sprawling houseplant.

Start with a good purge.

Drop unused items along with bulky packaging and expired. Leave regular essentials — toothbrushes — on the counter. Outfit cabinets with helpful holders, such as a back-of-the-door stand.

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Try a lazy Susan.

Instead of storing cleaning products, additional shampoos and lotions by lining them up (this creates unsightly litter!) attempt including a lazy Susan to your own bathroom cabinet. Whenever you have to get to something unique, without crashing over every other merchandise in sight, simply rotate it around.

Practice "keep, toss, toss."

Keep only hair accessories that still function (so not those miserable, stretched-out ponytail holders). Rein in fasteners with repurposed office supplies: A band clip corrals hair bands; a paper-clip holder heads pins. Pitch expired medications, baskets of too many candles and potpourri, which take up space and simply gather dust

Go all out on drawer dividers.

Restrict your top drawers to products you use several times weekly, maybe daily. (Stash special-occasion make-up in an out of the way bag.) Drawer dividers further simplify the morning cosmetics search. Short on cupboard or drawer space? An over-the-door shoe caddy will keep lotions, brushes and the like within easy reach.

Put your mason jar collection to work.

In the event that you're running low on storage space — and also a cabinet is out of the question — contemplate hanging small storage units, like mason jars, from the walls to corral cotton balls makeup brushes and toothbrushes. Fixed to a slab of totally distressed wood, mason jars supply a shabby chic fix.

Make your shower rod do double duty.

Let your towels and delicates dry — without being on display. Install an inexpensive blend shower curtain rod and towel bar, and items can drip dry into your bathtub. (We mounted ours backward, so the towels hang behind the curtain.)

Repurpose cute whicker baskets.

The jute basket that just doesn't fit in your bathroom cabinet might have a motive elsewhere — like on the walls. Hang two above your bathroom to hold conceal toilet paper in a convenient place and discreetly rolled up towels.

Rein in the bath toys.

A laundry lingerie bag doubles as an ideal receptacle for your children' foam alphabet letters, rubber ducks and mermaid dolls. Just hang the bag from a suction cup hook someplace in the shower stall so the playthings can drip dry.

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Use your shower's "wall space."

In case your shower does not have built-in shelves, a hanging organizer means soaps and shampoos are not precariously perched on the edge of the bath or windowsill. Bonus: No more mildew build-up at the bottles' foundations to scrub away.