Hi everyone! It's Alejandra, and I hope you guys are having a
great start to 2012. I’m going to do a quick video today on
how to organize your shower, or some quick tips on minimizing
the clutter inside your shower. Ok, so this is my shower.
It’s just a normal standing shower. It’s not even a bathtub.
It’s just a shower. And, normally what you see in showers is,
people get these shower caddies, just like that one, and they
hang it from underneath the faucet, kind of like that, and
they put all their shampoos and conditions at the very top,
and the shaving cream down there, and the soap right there,
and even though it’s better to do that, like, it’s better to
put stuff inside the shower caddy than having it sitting on
the ledge there, or the ledge there, or even down on the ground.
I think this is a great way to maximize your vertical space.
So what really bugs me here is when you have really tall bottles
that interfere with the faucet up here and, when the water
is coming down, and you grab this and bring it down, the water splashes,
and then it splashes again when you put it back up, and when you
take something down. The weight is not evenly distributed.
This is going to swing back and forth, just like that, and it
makes it super annoying. So, although this maximizes space,
I’m not really a fan of this setup. So, what I’ve done to avoid
having frustration in the shower is I’ve gotten a shower caddy
and a hook, and I’ve put it on the opposite end of the shower.
So, I literally bought a really large hook at Home Depot,
and I bouight a regular shower caddy. I think this is from
The Container Store. I mounted the hook to the wall with two
anchors and two screws and then I just hung the shower caddy
from the bottom hook down there. And now I don’t need to worry
about the height of these bottles interfering with the faucet
and it’s out of the way from the water so there’s not going
to be any extra splashing. And, also, what I’ve done here is,
I’ve placed two suction cups that have little hooks down here.
Can you see that hook? Can you see all the soap scum also?
Okay, so they have these little hooks there, and there’s one
on that side and there’s one on this side. Here, let me go
like that. See how it kind of like connects? It holds this in place.
So, because I added those suction cups, when I remove a heavy bottle,
the shower caddy is not going to swing side to side.
The weight is all… the suction cups are holding the shower
caddy in place, so this is not going to swing. I don’t know
if that was a good explanation or not, but you can just tell
that this is not going to swing because of the two suction
cups I added. Now, suction cups: some work really well;
some tend to fall down. I’ve had these in place for two to
two and a half years and they’ve never fallen down. They are from
The Container Store. The Container Store has a really great
brand of suction cups. I’ll have to post a link. I really like
this setup. It’s out of the way. Everything is contained.
There is nothing on the ledge, there’s nothing on this ledge.
I don’t have anything right here. This shower caddy is not
normally here. I just brought this in from the other bathroom
to show you guys usually what people have and what you can do
instead to save on your frustration levels. Okay, so that’s
really the big tip of the video, but something else
I have here – this is holding the shower curtain back.
You guys have seen this in my house tour video, but I’ll
just show you again in case you guys haven’t seen it.
Okay, I have the shower curtain here, and behind it I have a
shower liner that has pockets inside. Do you see that?
There’s like six pockets. But, right now the pockets are empty,
but what I usually keep are bars of soap, or I have a mini
brush in here. It’s also great for kids’ toys if you’re a mom or
anything that’s small that you don’t want to keep cluttering
up your shower. You can just put it inside this shower curtain.
And this is actually a shower curtain, but I just use it as a liner.
I’ll put a link to where you can get it at the bottom of the video.
I hope that was helpful. I will post links to some of the
products I just showed you below this video in the description
and if you like what you saw, you are welcome to do the same
thing inside your own shower. I will see you guys soon. Bye!