When it comes to bathroom storage, you have to be inventive if you’re dealing with a little space. After the medicine cabinet, closet, and vanity are full with necessities, add shelves as support. We have gorgeous bathroom shelving ideas that will update your area and provide loads of additional storage, whether it’s floating wood shelves above the toilet, tiny glass shelves nestled into an alcove, or wall shelf units decorating an otherwise empty wall.
Beyond the typical, we’ve included under-the-sink storage options, inventive built-ins, and over-the-door solutions to make any bathroom a neat, clutter-free area. We’ve even considered repurposing a bar cart, adding ledges over your bathroom, and bringing in a bookshelf. When it comes to stocking your bathroom shelves, you may display artwork and décor in addition to your skincare products, folded towels, and toiletries (ideally stored in apothecary jars). The finest aspect? Many of these modern bathroom designs are suitable for even the smallest bathrooms.
Transform a Medicine Cabinet
Replace a built-in medicine cabinet with two precisely sized tiny wooden shelves. It’s the ideal spot to arrange a variety of décor pieces, like as houseplants, and everyday necessities, like tissues and toothbrushes.
Decorate Glass Shelves with Displays
Little glass (or acrylic) shelves should be placed in a small alcove, and they should be decorated with candles, woven bins, vases, and fake plants. Outline Interiors, a design company, adds a wicker hamper to enhance floor space below without sacrificing beauty.
Wood Shelves That Float Over the Tub
Wood shelves are a great way to store extra towels, houseplants, and glass jars full of toiletries in addition to adding warmth and texture to this calm bathroom.
Choose a lightweight bookcase, like this arched wicker one, instead of drilling into these stunning blue tile walls. In addition to baskets for hidden storage, the four roomy shelves are excellent for holding folded towels.
Place Ornamental Containers Beneath the Sink
Outline Interiors chooses a vanity with an exposed bottom shelf in this instance. Toiletries, haircare products, and extra rolls of toilet paper are all kept in stylish containers and baskets.
Make It Easy With White Shelves
In this simple bathroom, floating shelves fit in well with the white walls. To make extra toilet paper rolls seem purposeful, arrange them in a pyramid shape. Next, arrange products within apothecary jars.
Select Storage Over-the-Toilet
Mounting two floating shelves will transform the drab area over a toilet into a chic exhibit. Remember Living With Lolo and cover the surfaces with amusing trinkets, artwork, and houseplants.
Put in Shower Shelves
Four marble shelves make this green tile walk-in shower by Outline Interiors more functional. You may stop soaking the bathroom floor while looking for more hair products or a fresh towel.
Modern 3-Tier Shelves Suspended
Install a contemporary shelf system as wall décor in addition to additional storage. Additionally, it’s the ideal time to place a wicker basket below and discard used clothing as you enter the shower.
Select Just One Ledge
A solitary floating ledge rests on the wall next to the tub in this sunny bathroom. This serves as a useful method to showcase any artwork or tiny mementos, such as the framed shell prints and driftwood boat seen here.
Expand Using Built-Ins
This clawfoot tub has large built-in shelves on both sides. Together with plants for aesthetic appeal, there are baskets filled with toiletries. These shelves will make the most of the available space in your linen closet and serve as a centrepiece.
Introduce a Bar Cart
Put away the alcohol and fill a bar cart with baskets containing all of your bath essentials, including your expanding collection of bath bombs.
Optimize Storage Under the Sink
You don’t have to give up storage space just because you choose a free-standing sink. This rustic beauty has enough of space to keep extra linens, cosmetics, or anything else that would look good enough to be put out in the open.
Maximize Your Use of Bath Trays
In addition to serving as storage for your essentials, bath trays may also be decorative pieces. Use the caddy to showcase books, plants, and other small objects you often put at the tub’s edge while you’re not taking a bath.
Create a Bath Alcove
Request that your builder construct an alcove shelf while renovating your bathroom. The ledge serves as a useful place to keep bathroom necessities. Moreover, it won’t need any additional room since it is already integrated.
Make a nostalgic exhibit
A few factors need to be taken into account when deciding where to place wall-mounted shelves: Will your toiletries be easily accessible? Will the shelves take much space and are they only for display? Here, the shelves are used to display beach-inspired items in a difficult-to-reach spot. The shelves don’t take up too much room, either.
Shelves Fit Into a Tiny Space
Towels and toiletries should be kept neatly on the open shelves next to the toilet. The built-in keeps everything off the floor and hidden away, saving valuable floor space.
Install Shelves in the Wall
Hand towels and other small items are conveniently accessible from the built-in shelving beside the sink in this charming blue bathroom in Sulphur Springs, Texas. To go with the space’s rustic theme, the shelves have wooden bases. To create a unified effect, they are also coated in the same wallpaper as the rest of the room.
Include a Vintage Aspect
A repurposed open display cabinet is a historic detail that’s as useful as it is distinctive in Margaret and Chris Shutze’s Colorado bathroom. There are glass shelves for storage on the antique dresser as well.
Put up Shelves Surrounding the Shower
One (or both) sides of the door to your en suite shower should have built-in shelves. Use it to hold books, decorations, and other necessities you may want to grab for the shower before entering.
Adopt a Victorian Style
An iron and wood wall shelf gives a Victorian-style bathroom a more rustic feel. In this instance, dishes, teapots, and teacups were kept on the shelves.
Place a Rack Above the Door
Just keep in mind that step stools are there for a purpose. Install a rack over your door to hold things like extra linens that you don’t need every day.
Think about Cabinet Shelves
Renters may easily add more storage space without having to do any building with the help of cabinets. With its transparent glass doors, this vintage alternative displays baskets and clean towels. In addition, raised panel cabinet doors below provide more room.
Consider Using an Antique Window Cabinet
Cabinets are your greatest choice if you have little children. However, clutter might result from closed doors. Place delicate objects beneath a rustic wood and glass cabinet to guard from hoarding.
Count on Metal Baskets and Shelving
Shower baskets are an easy but useful way to store extra stuff along your handrails. Install the grab bars above the tub, next to the toilet, or within the shower, as you see appropriate.