Over Toilet Cabinet And Spacesaver Ideas For Extra Bathroom Storage Space
To the owners of small bathrooms storage space is often too limited for comfort; cluttered bathrooms soon become a major irritation for many people, and can even get your day started off with a bad mood. Even if you do not have a small cluttered bathroom you may still want to improve your bathroom storage capacity, and the over toilet cabinet or bathroom spacesaver is an excellent way of providing that extra capacity in both small and large bathrooms.
It must be said that whoever first thought of the over toilet cabinet or shelves was something of a genius. Using the space efficiently above the toilet seems so obvious now; but weren’t the first to think of it, were we? While free standing bathroom cabinets for other parts of the bathroom can be very useful and effective they do take up a lot of floor space which may already be lacking. The over the toilet cabinet though can be free standing but by standing astride the toilet has no great new demand for floor space; at the same time over toilet cabinets are designed to utilize vacant wall and air space above the toilet.
Maybe you have an old cabinet but the cost to reface bathroom cabinets is out of proportion to the benefit; or you just need a new cabinet to provide extra bathroom storage. Once you have a vanity and medicine cabinet, and maybe a free standing linen cabinet, the obvious place to add new storage is with an over toilet cabinet; unless you only want more shelves, in which case an over the toilet shelving unit will do. However, what types of toilet cabinets are you likely to find in the stores?
Over toilet units in metal like chrome and satin nickel tend to be shelves only. Because of the need for doors the over toilet cabinet is likely to be predominantly wood, although glass doors and shelves can also be found in some over toilet storage units and spacesavers. Combinations of wood, glass and metal are not unusual, but it is the wooden over the toilet cabinet that tends to attract the eye of those with traditional bathroom décor and furniture. The wood can be in various qualities from solid oak down to economic engineered wood composites; prices vary accordingly, as you will see elsewhere on this site.