The complete guide
Choosing between drawers, shelves and a cupboard
Why a door changes the room
Open shelving photographs well and lives badly. It looks like the picture on the day you tidy it, and like the contents of your bathroom every other day.
A cabinet with drawers and a door does the opposite. The half-used bottles, the spare razor heads and the packet of cotton pads go behind a front, and the room reads as tidy whether or not you have done anything about it that week.
That is really what you are buying here, more than raw capacity: a way to stop the small stuff being visible.
Four drawers and one cupboard, and why the split works
Storage fails when everything has to go in the same kind of space.
Drawers are for small things. In a bathroom that is the vast majority of what you own: tubes, brushes, cotton wool, nail scissors, the second toothbrush. Put those on an open shelf and they migrate. Put them in a drawer and they are found by opening one drawer.
Cupboards are for tall and bulky. Toilet roll multipacks, a stack of folded towels, the big bottle of bleach, a hairdryer with a cable that will not coil. None of that lies flat in a drawer.
The adjustable shelf is the part that stops the cupboard being wasted. Set it high and you get a tall opening for bottles with a shallow one underneath. Set it low and you get two towel-height spaces. Decide after you have loaded it, not before.
Being honest about MDF in a bathroom
Water resistant is a real specification, and it is not the same word as waterproof.
The finish on this cabinet is made for what a bathroom actually does: damp air after a shower, condensation on a cold morning, the occasional splash from the basin. That is the environment it is built for, and it handles it.
What damages MDF is water reaching the board itself, and the two places that happens are the top surface and the base. A wet bottle left standing in the same spot slowly works through a finish. A base sitting in water that ran down a wall does it faster.
Neither is hard to avoid. Wipe spills instead of leaving them, stand plants on a saucer, and put the cabinet somewhere that gets damp air rather than direct water.
What not to store in it
There is no lock on the drawers or the door.
That matters for two categories: medicines and cleaning chemicals. A cabinet at floor level with drawers a toddler can open is the wrong home for either. Those belong high up or behind something that locks.
Everything else that clutters a bathroom is exactly what this is for.




