This bathroom re-organization took a left turn during the initial consultation. The owner of the home is a nurse who works nights. When she isn’t at the hospital taking care of brand-new moms and infants, it’s hard for her to sleep on a normal schedule. So she often wakes up - and stays up - for several hours in the night. Rather than go downstairs to their home office and risk waking up the kids, she often goes into her in-suite bathroom and starts working. Paying bills, reading through mail or working on curriculum (did I mention she also works a second job as a professor? Busy Mama!), she actually gets quite a bit done at night.
Unfortunately, this results in papers, pens and her tablet heaped on the edge of the bathtub, on the counter or on the floor. She needed a system that would work not only for her toiletries, but also for those few office items that end up living in the bathroom for her late-night work sessions. Enter baskets and labels. It sounds simple, but taking the time to separate items into categories and giving them a home can make a huge difference. It allows you the mental space to quickly put items back where they belong without really even thinking about it. Just put the pens and Post-Its back in their basket when you’re done working and they’re waiting for you the next night.
She’s also fortunate enough to have two linen closets, one in the master bath and one in the hallway. She also has helpful teenage children and a husband who take turns doing chores like laundry, but unfortunately they don’t always know which closet to put clean linens in. By taking time to separate out like with like and creating a system for what lives in each closet, putting away clean laundry just got a little easier.
Lastly, she already had a great hair tool organizer to house all her curling irons, but since she mostly uses her straightener daily, this was better stored under the sink opening up some much desired white space on the counters.
This bathroom is now organized to tackle anything life throws at it and I know this busy Mom, Nurse and Professor is handling her business in half the time! Check out more photos below including one of a very cute Golden Doodle helper.
