The bathroom is similar to the bedroom in terms of the peace and relaxation it can provide you. It provides the chance to lock yourself away from the world or have long, soothing baths. However, it can also be an highly active room, especially for big families. The rush in the morning to get prepared for work and make sure your children are scrubbed up and ready for school is no doubt a common theme in any household. Due to the dampness levels in this room it’s also doubly important to keep on top of it to avoid any damage or accidents.

Toiletries

The main area of focus in the bathroom is your toiletries collection. Now I don’t think it’s unfair to say that typically women have more of a problem with this than men, however if you have bottles of unused shampoo scattered around your bath and spare toilet rolls piled up around your toilet you definitely need to do something about it. Rather like with your clothes collection in the bedroom, as discussed previously, your toiletries can be split up into different categories dependent on their use:

Toiletries you use daily. We all have toiletries that we use on a daily or very regular basis including such things as your toothpaste, facewash, mouthwash and shampoo (at least I hope you are using them on a regular basis). This collection shouldn’t be large (unless you have an overly complicated daily routine) and as such you should ideally be placed in easy to reach locations, such as near the sink.

Specialist toiletries. These are toiletries you use for special occasions – maybe weekly or monthly. These may include specialist moisturisers and face masks or exfoliating packs. After all, we all need to treat ourselves from time to time. However, because of this they don’t need to be out all the time taking up room.

The rest. Everything else should be disposed of, recycled or given away. There is no middle ground with this. Once you have found a particular brand that you like and what works for you, it makes no sense to keep hold of everything else. While I certainly wouldn’t discourage you from trying different products, if you don’t like them don’t keep them just because they’ve barely been touched.

Towels and clothes

As I’ve said originally, because the bathroom gets wet it’s doubly important that you keep stuff off of the floor, unless you want wet clothes and dirty towels everywhere. If you don’t have a towel rail get one now and if you have a problem with dumping your clothes around when you have a shower get a laundry basket. Get whatever accessories you need to keep stuff off the floor. If you need to put up a shelf for your toiletries, hooks for dressing gowns, an holder for the toilet rolls or a rail for the towels do so.