The OTHER bathroom

I haven't talked much about the upstairs bathroom because there isn't much to say - but it has been an organizational challenge. The vanity is too small. There is also no medicine cabinet. 

There's also no storage. So when we moved in, we stood there and stared at the bathroom going, "I don't understand where all this stuff will go."  Then we remembered that my sister gave us storage cubes that did not yet have a home, and would fit perfectly on either side of the vanity.

It is totally ugly and disorganized, but for right now, it's provided the additional storage that we need. If this was permanent, we would paint the cubes, but I'm planning to steal them for craft supplies after we redo the bathroom.

Eventually, we will be replacing the vanity with a wall to wall vanity that has plenty of storage for all.

The more immediate question was the issue of towel storage. We don't have a linen closet, so we knew towels had to go somewhere.  We had one of these old bookshelves from college, so it created a temporary solution (and gave it a temporary home) to the problem.  Unfortunately, it didn't fit nearly enough of our towels - it maxed out around four, plus hand towels and washcloths.

 We were at Bed Bath and Beyond on Saturday, so we picked up this 3 shelf bath tower. I've included a picture so that YOU DO NOT BUY IT. It is terrible.  Assembly was horribly, and the quality control is absolutely awful, but now it's assembled and looks okay.  But seriously, save your money, because I'm sure you could get a similar but better unit elsewhere for similar money.

 However, it does fit all of our towels. (Many of which are currently waiting to be washed in our soon-to-be-working washer/dryer.)

 I've never really worried about having a lot of matching towels before, but now I'm concerned because they're out and oh no, they don't match. Then I remembered I don't live in Pinterest and it's really okay to have assorted towels because that is how real people live. I would like to get a basket for hand towels and one for washcloths for the top - any thoughts on how that would look? I mostly want them to not fall over.

 We also installed a new towel rod, because we needed a closer location to hang towels in the bathroom.  We used to keep them on the door of our old bathroom, because the door was close to the tub.  Having to hang them over a rod was not working for us, so we got a rack with hooks instead.  We're trying to keep all of the fixtures brushed nickel, so that's what we went with here as well.