8 Reasons to Get Your Bathroom Storage Made Bespoke
Choosing made-to-measure storage in your bathroom is often the secret to a calm, ordered and enviable washspace
Tailoring storage makes a lot of sense in bathrooms, where clutter can easily overwhelm and space is often tight or awkward. Although the outlay may be more than buying a ready-made piece, the long-term benefits of something designed to fit perfectly can far outweigh the initial expense, as these impressive examples demonstrate.
2. Go beyond storage
There’s plenty of storage space in this run of cupboards that spans the back wall, dipping to double as a window seat in the middle.
However, it’s not just about storage in this room, with cabinetry built by West Bridgford Joinery. In the left-hand corner, there’s a radiator cover – removable for access – and the storage space next to it works as an airing cupboard/towel warmer, economically making use of the heat from the radiator.
A good bathroom designer will be able to make the most of a unit like this and suggest ideas you might not have considered.
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There’s plenty of storage space in this run of cupboards that spans the back wall, dipping to double as a window seat in the middle.
However, it’s not just about storage in this room, with cabinetry built by West Bridgford Joinery. In the left-hand corner, there’s a radiator cover – removable for access – and the storage space next to it works as an airing cupboard/towel warmer, economically making use of the heat from the radiator.
A good bathroom designer will be able to make the most of a unit like this and suggest ideas you might not have considered.
Find bathroom designers in your area and read client reviews.
3. Favour flush units
When a concealed toilet cistern is fitted, there’s usually the opportunity to use the space above the false wall that hides the waterworks. This contemporary unit and backlit shelf, designed by Brightman Furniture, demonstrate how to do it in style.
By making the mirrored doors flush to the wall, the designer has also created an optical illusion of extra space. This unit has a few swanky touches, too, including a motion-sensor LED strip light and soft-close doors.
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When a concealed toilet cistern is fitted, there’s usually the opportunity to use the space above the false wall that hides the waterworks. This contemporary unit and backlit shelf, designed by Brightman Furniture, demonstrate how to do it in style.
By making the mirrored doors flush to the wall, the designer has also created an optical illusion of extra space. This unit has a few swanky touches, too, including a motion-sensor LED strip light and soft-close doors.
Find carpenters and joiners in your area.
Flush units don’t only work in contemporary bathrooms. Here, the designers at Frome Interiors have also made use of the space above a concealed toilet cistern, but the unit shows just how differently you can fit out an area like this, depending on your style and storage requirements.
There’s space in this bathroom to include storage in the bottom half of the wall, too. Above, the cupboard has mirrored doors to boost light. On the other side are generous, ceiling-height open shelves, perfect for adding character to a bathing space.
Everything has been painted to match the woodwork in this room, but consider the dramatic difference in style you’d get if, for example, the whole lot coordinated with the walls. Good, paintable bespoke storage will always be practical, and you’ll easily be able to change the look if you fancy a style revamp after a few years.
There’s space in this bathroom to include storage in the bottom half of the wall, too. Above, the cupboard has mirrored doors to boost light. On the other side are generous, ceiling-height open shelves, perfect for adding character to a bathing space.
Everything has been painted to match the woodwork in this room, but consider the dramatic difference in style you’d get if, for example, the whole lot coordinated with the walls. Good, paintable bespoke storage will always be practical, and you’ll easily be able to change the look if you fancy a style revamp after a few years.
4. Stretch your wallspace
Continuing this vanity unit right up to the far wall not only provides more storage, but a useful extra surface, too (especially good in a guest bathroom, so people have somewhere to put their washbags).
This design, by Marion Lichtig, also does an important visual job: long lines make the bathroom feel streamlined and slightly larger than it might have done had the unit stopped just after the basin, chopping up the wall.
Continuing this vanity unit right up to the far wall not only provides more storage, but a useful extra surface, too (especially good in a guest bathroom, so people have somewhere to put their washbags).
This design, by Marion Lichtig, also does an important visual job: long lines make the bathroom feel streamlined and slightly larger than it might have done had the unit stopped just after the basin, chopping up the wall.
5. Incorporate a niche
Bespoke bathroom storage doesn’t have to be complicated, as demonstrated in this Ensoul project. Here, a full-length and ceiling-height false wall takes up little floor space, but creates the opportunity for niches and cupboards.
A long niche, spanning the length of the bath, provides a nice spot for children’s toys and shampoos. A few shelves above make use of a taller niche, while closed cabinets either side hide away all manner of bathroom paraphernalia and provide an opportunity to display fun murals.
Bespoke bathroom storage doesn’t have to be complicated, as demonstrated in this Ensoul project. Here, a full-length and ceiling-height false wall takes up little floor space, but creates the opportunity for niches and cupboards.
A long niche, spanning the length of the bath, provides a nice spot for children’s toys and shampoos. A few shelves above make use of a taller niche, while closed cabinets either side hide away all manner of bathroom paraphernalia and provide an opportunity to display fun murals.
6. Take it to the top
If your bathroom is big enough, floor-to-ceiling built-in storage could help to corral a multitude of items causing clutter or wardrobe overload elsewhere. These tall painted cupboards, by Linear London, have panelled doors, which give an elegant period feel and would work well in an older house.
Your carpenter could tailor the interior fittings of cupboards like these to house whatever you need them to, from hanging clothes, bed linen and towels to unruly sports equipment. A strip of light in the top of each section is a nice touch.
More: How to Plan for a Bathroom Renovation
If your bathroom is big enough, floor-to-ceiling built-in storage could help to corral a multitude of items causing clutter or wardrobe overload elsewhere. These tall painted cupboards, by Linear London, have panelled doors, which give an elegant period feel and would work well in an older house.
Your carpenter could tailor the interior fittings of cupboards like these to house whatever you need them to, from hanging clothes, bed linen and towels to unruly sports equipment. A strip of light in the top of each section is a nice touch.
More: How to Plan for a Bathroom Renovation
7. Think small
Bespoke storage doesn’t have to be big or fancy – even in a smaller room, it can help to make the most of the space and keep things tidy.
Here, Shacklewell Architects has created shelved niches either side of the basin (again making use of that false wall hiding the toilet cistern – out of shot on the right). They’ve been painted white to match the tiling and blend in, keeping the wall from looking bitty. Standalone units here might have been clumsy and collected dust behind them.
Note how much of an impact the single, black-painted shelf above makes. Together with the style of the basin and the elegant wall sconces, the shelf completes the subtle Art Deco nod.
Bespoke storage doesn’t have to be big or fancy – even in a smaller room, it can help to make the most of the space and keep things tidy.
Here, Shacklewell Architects has created shelved niches either side of the basin (again making use of that false wall hiding the toilet cistern – out of shot on the right). They’ve been painted white to match the tiling and blend in, keeping the wall from looking bitty. Standalone units here might have been clumsy and collected dust behind them.
Note how much of an impact the single, black-painted shelf above makes. Together with the style of the basin and the elegant wall sconces, the shelf completes the subtle Art Deco nod.
8. Make it multifunctional
A built-in cupboard can be positioned to do double duty. This dark-painted floor-to-ceiling cabinet, designed by Geraldine Morley, not only provides heaps of valuable bathroom storage, it also creates a little nook for the loo to add privacy in a shared bathroom.
Tell us…
What are your bathroom storage frustrations – and which of these solutions would sort them out? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
A built-in cupboard can be positioned to do double duty. This dark-painted floor-to-ceiling cabinet, designed by Geraldine Morley, not only provides heaps of valuable bathroom storage, it also creates a little nook for the loo to add privacy in a shared bathroom.
Tell us…
What are your bathroom storage frustrations – and which of these solutions would sort them out? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
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The right-hand end of this set of shelves, in a Bethell Projects design, also provides a wall onto which the shower controls have been mounted.