A Place For Everything: The Jungle Bathroom

Few rooms in Blake Hill House elicit stronger comments than the Jungle Bathroom. People either love it or hate it. When Andy and I bought BHH, we inherited the decor. Dorothy, the previous owner, was a fearless decorator. Although we have been making changes in nearly all of the rooms here, neither Andy nor I am in a hurry to update this half bathroom. The Jungle Bathroom is a conversation piece, and we are in favor.

(A Place For Everything is a new blog feature for 2019. In these posts, I will share how I utilize our existing storage, offer creative solutions for trouble areas (#oldhouseproblems, am I right?), and discuss how we manage all of our belongings. These posts contain affiliate links.)

Under the Sink

Since the Jungle Bathroom is just a half bath, we only keep necessities here, and I tuck them all into a lidded basket that fits under the sink.

• Two rolls of extra tissue
• Extra hand towels (We use Turkish cotton hand towels or regular hand towels in the Jungle Bathroom. All of them are gray or black in here. By sticking to one color of towels in each separate bathroom, the laundry folders know exactly where they belong.)
• Guest hand soap – When we have guests or a party, I swap out our daily hand soap with the fancier bottle.
• Cleaning wipes*
• Toilet Cleaner
• General spray cleaner
• Marble cleaner
• Daily hand soap refill

*We have a lot of cleaning products in here right now, especially since the marble requires special care. Now that the kids are older and tidier, we won’t be using wipes anymore. The container is almost empty. Once they are gone, we will switch to the Mrs. Meyers (or similar), and I will add clean rags to the basket instead.

Top of the Sink

For daily hand washing, I bought a glass bottle of hand soap at T.J. Maxx. After we used all of the original soap, I began refilling it with a less expensive brand. The glass dispenser looks more elegant than a plastic bottle.

Just like many old homes, our bathroom does not have an exhaust fan, and installing one would be complicated. The pomegranate-scented oil diffuser keeps it smelling fresh in here and all the way out into the hall. We have a box of matches handy too. Of course, with little ones around it is vital to keep both of these out of reach.

On either side of the toilet, I store a fancy chrome toilet brush and a lidded trashcan.

That’s it. By keeping cleaning supplies handy, it is simple to zip in the jungle bathroom and tidy up or give it a deep clean when necessary.

Have I missed anything crucial? Is there something beneficial that I should be keeping in this bathroom? And lastly, about that wallpaper…

…Yay or nay?

-Stacy

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