Over Toilet Shelves – Free Up Room in a Bathroom or a Dorm Room

Often smaller bathrooms are lacking in storage space, in spite of the fact that they are sometimes used as mudrooms or pool dressing rooms and really need the storage. A traditional corner linen cabinet won’t quite fit. You may find your master bathroom doesn’t have enough space, or often you are short storage in the children’s bathroom.

An area that every bathroom has that’s often underutilized is the space above the toilet. Some bathrooms come with a linen cabinet hung on the wall over the toilet, but often this space is unused.  But it’s easy to use this space for an over the toilet cabinet.

You can make use of this space by installing a wall mounted linen cabinet over the toilet, but that is a lot of work and expense. The simplest solution is to put standard shelved in this space, but while simple shelves are quite funcitonal they may not be seen as being consistent with the decor of the room.

Often a good choice one of these free standing shelves that straddles the commode. While they can cost a little more than standard shelves, they are offered in a variety of styles, for example plain chrome plated using that have wire shelves. There are a number of other styles, for example a French Country style that features a more formal hardwood finish and may have doors to keep the contents out of site. There are products that can match almost any decor available for storage space over the toilet.

College dorms are a place where it’s always hard to find enough storage. While it is still common to have many dorm rooms sharing one large bathroom/ shower facility, it’s becoming much more common to have a smaller shared area like a suite or an apartment setting, which typically will have some smaller number like four student sharing one smaller bathroom. This can be a challenge, especially with girls. To fully utilize the space over the toilet without using too much floor space, consider a free standing shelving unit like one of the Spacesaver series of shelves.This is an area that goes unused fairly often, but with just a little effort can provide a significant amount of storage, up to four shelves of storage at times.

Small bathrooms can be a storage challenge, but by thinking creatively you can find space using over the toilet storage where none was before.