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Bathrooms generally tend to be a messy affair. Buckets and pails lying around with brushes and mops. There’re no proper racks for laundry or to keep bathroom slippers. Generally, toiletries such as toothpaste, toothbrushes and soaps are kept close to the basin or sometimes, on the window sill.

Does this sound familiar?

Likely it does. Because that’s the way most Indians treat their bathroom. In fact, some Indians consider a bathroom of their homes to be a ‘necessary evil,” because they neglect it to an extent that it looks disorganized and shabby.

However, this needn’t be the case. Remember, your bathroom is also a reflection of your personality and the overall hygiene standards of the household. Therefore, maintaining it well, keeping it organized and clean are the responsibility of every household member.

Think about it: how would you react and get an impression about someone if they lead you to a shabby, unkempt and disorganized bathroom at their homes? Surely, you would get a poor impression of your host and their household. The same adage works the other way round too.

You might be wondering, why so much fuss over a bathroom. Continue reading.

Reasons to Organize Your Bathroom

Other than giving your guest or visitors a good impression of your household, there’re several other reasons too for organizing the bathroom of your home and giving it that neat, clean look. Understanding these could help you care better for this ubiquitous space of most homes in India and elsewhere.

• Optimal Use of Space:

Generally, bathrooms in India are small and compact, unlike those abroad. Hence, it’s vital to utilize the space thoughtfully. This can be easily done by using bathroom organizers of various types that fit on the wall and free-up space on your basin or bathroom floor or window sills, among other places. Freeing up space also means your bathroom looks more roomy and large.

• Avoiding Pests:

Unkempt and shabby bathrooms provide an ideal breeding ground for insects and reptiles. These include mosquitos, cockroaches and centipedes, to name a few. The damp conditions and untidy or unorganized bathrooms inadvertently provide them enough hiding places for living and breeding. These pests can prove hazardous to our health and organizing a bathroom well could prove helpful.

• Better Hygiene:

It’s a known fact that hygiene levels of a bathroom rise when it’s neatly organized. That’s because proper organizing and use of wall attachments allow you to cleanup areas that were hitherto strewn with different things such as mops, brooms and brushes, soaps and detergents, bathroom slippers and lots more. With more space to move around, obviously, it’s easier to clean the place.

• Saves Your Money:

If you’re thinking that organizing a bathroom costs money, think of how much money you’re wasting by keeping it disorganized. For one, soaps placed on basins or window sills are prone to damage and become useless. These have to be replaced quickly. Toilet rolls placed on flush tanks can fall and become wet and hence, useless too. Toothbrushes kept improperly can attract fungus and bacteria leading to painful conditions such as gingivitis.

• Prevent Bathroom Accidents:

Ill organized bathrooms can render you prone to common accidents. These include slipping on floors wet with soap or detergent water, injuries from objects placed carelessly or even while walking between the clutter. Bathroom accidents tend to be painful to the victim and in several cases, cause fractures that need expensive fixing and aftercare. These accidents can be avoided by organizing the bathroom, using non-slip or quick dry floor mats and organizers.

Having said that, I can easily understand your concerns about spending on organizing the bathroom. However, I can assure you that all the expense is one-off and would actually prove worthwhile.

Best Bathroom Organizers for You

Now, let’s look at some of the best bathroom organizers that can help give the bathroom a neat and clean as well as organized look. Generally, these are made of waterproof material and can easily fit into the bathroom. Furthermore, a lot of these don’t require drilling holes in a ceramic tile wall, since they come with strong adhesive strips for placements.

Here’s my curated list of bathroom organizers you could consider:

1. Toilet Roll Holder

Toilet roll holders are an essential fixture for your bathroom. These can help prevent wastage of expensive toilet rolls by preventing them from getting wet due to use of water in the bathroom. They also lend a luxury look to your bathroom, if used properly. Nowadays, we can get toilet roll holders in the no-drill type too, meaning they can be fixed without nails and hooks in the wall.

2. Bathroom Slipper/Shoe Stand

These are ideal for keeping away bathroom shoes and slippers. These stands are also available in wall mounted, no-drill variants. Bathroom slipper and shoe stands ensure that your footwear is dry and clean every time you wear. They allow water to drip and help the footwear to dry quickly. Furthermore, they can help prevent accidents caused by someone stumbling over improperly left footwear on the bathroom floor or outside.

3. Bathroom Shelf

A bathroom shelf is very useful for lots of things. For one, it enables your household members and you to keep bathroom mugs and toiletries safe against dampness, while giving the place a neat and clean look. They also come with a towel hanger for placing bath towels or napkins, as you might desire. A bathroom shelf comes handy for several purposes.

4. Toothbrush Stand

A bathroom toothbrush stand helps maintain proper dental hygiene. There’re reasons I say this. Toothbrushes are made of fine fibers that’re prone to gathering dust as well as breeding pathogens. These pathogens generally breed on wet toothbrushes and can cause dental issues. The most common is gingivitis, a painful inflammation of gums. Using these stands can ensure your toothbrushes are stored hygienically.

5. Hair Dryer Holder

A bathroom hair dryer holder is an essential fixture for your bathroom if you’re using that electronic device. The reason is simple: electrical and electronic devices can get spoiled if they’re exposed to moisture or stored in damp areas. They can also give you strong electric shocks if used when wet. In such cases, a hair dryer rack ensures this gadget is safely kept.

6. Hand Towel Napkin Holder

This fitting is specially meant for your basin and to give the bathroom a neat, clean and organized look. A towel and napkin holder are useful when you need to hang a towel or napkin for common use by household members or guests. It is placed prominently so that everyone that uses the bathroom can see it for use. They’re generally strong and have a metal frame or ring to hang the towel or napkin.

7. Soap Holder Dish/ Stand

Instead of keeping soap dishes and soap boxes on unseeming places such as window sills, top of the flush tank or cavities in the wall, among others, using a soap dish or soap stand can prove more useful. They can help soaps dry quickly and be ready for next use, by draining away excess water. This way, your soaps last longer while giving a neat look to the bathroom.

8. Corner Rack

Most people neglect corners of the bathroom. As a matter of fact, a bathroom corner is an ideal place to store a lot of stuff such as cleaners and deodorants, new soaps and shampoo flacons, toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs and brushes, among other stuff. Bathroom corner racks come in many shapes and sizes. However, they have one distinct feature: a triangulated end for fitting into corners of the bathroom.

9. Bathroom Floor Mats

Bathroom floor mats or shower mats are available in two types: absorbent and non-slip. The absorbent one help prevent slips and falls when you walk out of a bath of shower or after using the bathroom. They soak in soapy water.

The other, non-slip types fit firmly on the floor while providing a proper grip to your soles. That way, they help prevent slips and falls. Other than these, bathroom mats also give a nice look to the place and helps it appear neat, tidy and well organized.

10. Broom & Mop Holder

And finally, the brooms and mops holder. Generally, most Indians don’t use these because of this old habit of stashing away cleaning implements in the corner of the bathroom. This kind of stashing in corners is dangerous since it could lead to injuries.

Improperly kept damp brooms and mops also attract cockroaches and centipedes. A broom and mop holder could ensure your cleaning implements look neatly stacked and help avoid the pest menace.

Other Bathroom Accessories

Other than these top 10 best bathroom organizers for a clean and organized look of the bathroom, there’re a couple of more things you could consider. These can give your bathroom a clean look and also, help it appear very well organized while promoting hygiene.

Laundry Bags

Most Indians use cheap metal hangers and hooks to hang their dirty laundry, including innerwear and leave it there for cleaning. This imparts an odor to the bathroom and makes it look ugly. Such placement of your innerwear or other clothes is indecent, to say the least.

No guest or visitor loves the look of panties, bras or underwear in a bathroom of the host. You can simply avoid this embarrassment by using laundry bags. They can take in unwashed clothes too.

Wrap Up

Before wrapping up, it’s worth knowing that organizing your bathroom and giving it a clean, organized look might entail some expense.

However, this expense is worthwhile since it can help save money that would otherwise go waste on disposing off useless, wet soaps, avoiding electrical short circuits and related accidents or slips and falls requiring professional medical intervention due to fractures. These organizers are easily available in India and made by reputed brands.