If you have decided to use shelves in your bathroom to help with the storage workload, you have made a good decision. But before you can select which types of bathroom shelves are right for you, you have to narrow down what you will be storing on them. There are a lot of different reasons for using shelves as bathroom storage. Shelves can hold things like towels, beauty items, appliances, pretty much anything you might need to store in the bathroom can be kept on a shelf.
A big benefit of using shelves is that you can utilize the vertical spaces in the room. Since the bathroom is a small, crowded room, any time you can use the wall space in a functional way it makes sense to do it. You can be both functional and stylish by making the right selection as far as the kind of shelves you use. For example, you can choose glass shelves for a more upscale, elegant look. Or you can add color with decorative or flowered shelves.
Glass shelves give that elegant, clean minimalist look at a much less expensive price than storage cabinets. These shelves are also easy to install. be sure to know the weight limits of any shelves before you buy them. Make sure the weight of the items you have planned to be stored on them is not above that limit.
Another style of shelving that can be used in the bathroom is track style shelving. With this type of shelf, you anchor vertical pieces
to the wall. Those pieces have slots in which you clip brackets that support the shelf. The advantage of this type of shelving is it has many options as far as height goes. This type can also hold a lot of weight, just be sure you have anchored the verticals into wall studs and not just drywall.
For simple, permanent shelves, you can choose a shelf with plain brackets. Usually made of either metal or wood, you just screw the brackets into a wall stud and lay the glass shelf on top of them. When mounting any kind of shelving, be sure to use a level. Uneven shelving is obvious, but also can cause shelves to break due to weight being placed on brackets at odd angles.
If you don’t want to mount shelves on the walls, you can use free standing shelves. These typically come in kits that are built around the toilet to take advantage of the space above the top of the toilet. This type of shelving comes in wood, metal, and glass, and usually has suction cups that hold the unit in place both at floor level and also against the ceiling.
As you can see there is an endless variety of shelving available for your bathroom. Whichever bathroom shelves you choose, be sure to follow the mounting instructions so you don’t have to deal with a shelve breaking or collapsing and possibly hurting someone.