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I need ideas for storage in a small mobile home bathroom.
October 1st, 2006
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Full question:
I live in a mobile home and love it. I am constantly looking for ways to decorate it, etc. I have severe arthritis in my right hip, so I have a limit on what I can do. However I do have a strong-bodied son, who, although is not a handyman, is a great help on these things. I need new ideas for storage in a hall bath.
Thanks!
Vicki
My answer:
I wrote a bit about storage here. These ideas may be useful to you for bathroom storage:
1. Repurpose stuff - I use an umbrella stand in my bathroom to hold toilet paper, a plant stand to hold shampoos and bath stuff, and a pedestal fruit bowl to hold washcloths.
2. Decorate with your bathroom “stuff”. The obvious thing is to hang your bathroom linens on hooks on the walls (I made a set for my bathroom out of the lids from three wooden canisters I was not using. BTW, I used the canisters themselves as “lifts” in some of my tablescapes”).
3. Use the back of your bathroom door for storage. Humble chicken wire makes a great storage unit. I saw this last weekend, where a door was covered with chicken wire and then hooks were hung off the wire holding lots of things, including baskets holding stuff. This I will be doing myself soon. You might think this would only “work” in real primitive decor, but that wasn’t true in this case. The baskets hanging off the wire were very contemporary making the end result look contemporary as well.
4. Your over-the-toilet and under-the-sink storage will vary with each bathroom design. No matter what your sink design is, storage can be “made” if none exists by skirting the sink to hide things under it, or by putting baskets, boxes (even hatboxes) or tins under it in full view.
A good wall mounted storage unit (perhaps over the toilet)is a video/DVD stand, mounted on it’s side.
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Your Frugal Decorating Diva,
Nancy
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