New Bathroom Closet

So, you know about all of those movies and TV shows that talk about people snooping through other people's bathroom cabinets, searching through pill bottles and feminine products, trying for find dirt on whoever lives there? If you ever come to my house, I invite you to do so.  Not particularly because I would like to share morning moisturizing routine with you, simply, because my house demands it.  My husband and I moved into our house, a cozy ranch rental, in July of last summer.  Luckily for us, we have fantastic natural shading that kept our house fairly cool all summer long, rarely having to turn on the air conditioning.  However when winter came and it was time to pop wood into the woodburner (yes, we use a woodburner to heat our house--it is more time consuming, but I have become a regular Paul Bunyon when it comes to using the circular saw to cut my own wood down to size), we finally found our central vent.  The majority of the heat come out of a dual sided vent located in both our dining room and bathroom closet. A closet with a folding door that we had to keep open at all times, showcasing my feminine products and my husbands shaving/trimming apparatuses in an ungodly mess.  There was nothing we could do, the closet door had to stay open, making it difficult to fit between the closet door and the half wall that hides our toilet, in order for heat to properly disperse through the house.  Whenever we had guests, my husband and I would find the closet door shut, stifling the heat as though our guest merely thought that we kept forgetting to close the door and they were saving us the embarrassment of having our toiletries on display, not understanding that we intentionally left it that way. Something had to be done.

 This is what our awful, cluttered bathroom closet looked like.  No Wonder people were coming into our home and shutting it each time they were in our bathroom.










I decided it was time to banish the closet door all together and organize the closet in a functional yet, pretty way.  Hubs and I ran to our local Marshalls and picked up a pretty grey patterned shelf liner, to hide the ugly white-washed plywood shelves.  I love what we found.

I took everything off the shelves, so I could clean and purge.  I couldn't believe the amount of half used shampoos/conditioners that I had stashed away in the corners.

After I sorted and purged, and decided which items would be returning to shelves, I lined and moved the shelves to a more pleasing arrangement. I am pretty happy with the final product.

I will of course be happier when I purchase some pretty containers to better organize our shelves, but it already makes a huge difference in my morning routine.  I love walking into my bathroom and know exactly where everything is. And I have to say, it looks much better without that bulky folding door in the way. I will share what I did with the door later--I'm pretty excited about that also!!

Before

After

 
Maybe it's just me, but I think it is a vast improvement.


That's one project completed start to finish...now to resume all of my half started to-do's...