After renovations, most people realise they need somewhere to keep shampoo bottles, soaps, razors and small items. The quick fix is to add metal caddies, plastic shelves, or hanging baskets. These work, but they can make bathrooms look cluttered and are harder to clean around.
If you plan storage niches—those little recessed spaces in walls—during the tiling phase, you get built-in shelves that are easy to wipe, don’t jut out, and feel like part of the design. Bottles sit neatly, and you don’t constantly bang your elbow on random hanging racks.
Once tiles are done, cutting into walls to create niches is messy and expensive. So thinking about where you’ll actually put things before work starts pays off for years every time you take a shower.
