My bathroom is small. Not unusably small, but small enough that every object in it has to earn its place, and for two years the objects in it had not been earning their places. The counter was covered with things that had nowhere else to go: skincare, haircare, medicines, the various small items that accumulate in a bathroom and have no natural home. The floor had a basket that I had bought to solve the problem and that had become part of the problem. Every morning I started the day in a room that felt cluttered and slightly chaotic, which is not the ideal way to start a day.
My name is Diane Hollis. I am a retired nurse from Bristol, and I am someone who values order. The bathroom situation had been bothering me for longer than I was comfortable admitting. I had looked at bathroom storage solutions several times and been put off by units that were too wide for the space I had, too shallow to be genuinely useful, or too expensive for what they were.
The Corner I Had Not Considered
The solution turned out to be a corner I had been ignoring. Between the toilet and the wall there was a gap of about 35cm, which I had been treating as dead space because I had not found anything that fitted it properly. When I measured it properly and started looking specifically for slim freestanding units, the options became clearer.
I found the VASAGLE Slim Bathroom Floor Cabinet at ALTOE. The dimensions were exactly right: 30 x 30 x 89cm, slim enough to fit the gap, tall enough to provide meaningful storage, deep enough to hold real items rather than just decorative ones. The grey finish worked with my bathroom tiles. The layout was the detail that sold it: two removable drawers that could be rearranged across three open compartments, plus a tabletop surface and an open shelf. That flexibility meant I could configure it for exactly what I needed rather than adapting my storage to a fixed layout.
At £70.27 it was a considered purchase. I ordered it on a Monday. It arrived Wednesday. Assembly, with the clear illustrated instructions and labelled parts, took about forty minutes.
The Configuration
I spent about ten minutes working out the right configuration before I started putting things away. Drawers at the bottom for the things I wanted hidden: medicines, spare toiletries, the various items that need to be accessible but do not need to be visible. Open compartment in the middle for the things I use daily: skincare, the items that need to be reachable quickly in the morning. Tabletop for the things that benefit from being at hand height.
The counter, which had been covered for two years, was clear within about twenty minutes of the cabinet being assembled. I stood in the bathroom and looked at it. The room looked larger. It looked calmer. It looked like a room that someone had thought about rather than a room that had accumulated.
I started my morning routine the next day in a bathroom where everything had a place and the counter was clear. The difference in how the morning felt was immediate and slightly disproportionate to the change involved. A clear counter is a small thing. Starting the day in a calm room is not a small thing.
Six Months On
The VASAGLE cabinet has been in the bathroom for six months. The MDF construction has held up well in the bathroom environment, no swelling, no warping, no degradation of the grey finish. The drawers slide smoothly. The open compartment has remained organised because the cabinet gave everything a designated place rather than a general area.
I have rearranged the drawer configuration once, moving one drawer to a different position when I realised the original layout was not quite right for how I actually use the bathroom in the morning. The removable design made that a five-minute job rather than a problem.
My daughter visited in February and commented that the bathroom looked different. I told her I had added a cabinet. She said it looked like a different room. I think that is slightly overstated, but I understand what she meant. The right storage in the right place changes how a room feels, not just how it functions.
Two friends who have small bathrooms have bought the same unit after seeing mine. Both have reported the same experience: the slim profile fits spaces they had written off as unusable, the flexible layout works for their specific needs, and the bathroom feels calmer as a result.
The Verdict
If you have a small bathroom and a gap you have been treating as dead space, measure it. The VASAGLE slim cabinet at 30 x 30 x 89cm fits into spaces that most storage units do not, the flexible drawer configuration adapts to your actual needs, and the grey finish is clean and modern enough to work with most bathroom schemes. It is the storage solution I should have bought two years ago.
Find the VASAGLE Slim Bathroom Floor Cabinet at ALTOE. Listed in Latest Products, Furniture, Cabinets & Storage, and Storage Cabinets & Lockers.
Measure the gap. Order the cabinet. Clear the counter. Start the day differently.
— Diane Hollis, Bristol
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