Welcome to my 3rd post about Small Home Style, sharing stylish ideas to incorporate into your home. As a small home dweller living in 1100 Sq feet with a family of four + a puppy, I've learned to design my home with intention and make sure our small home works of my family. Every Monday, I'm sharing design solutions for small homes, helping to tackle small home design dilemmas. Today, I'm sharing design solutions for small bathrooms. Chances are when you have a small home you also have a small bathroom. It can be challenging to create extra storage and make the most of your space with your bathroom is small. However, there are several ways you can make your bathroom feel larger & organized.

Add a Linen Closet

If you have room inside your bathroom or right outside, add a freestanding linen closet to help double your space. Store bathroom towels and misc bathroom items on the shelves.

Add Shelves

Shelves help create instant storage options, choose shelves wide enough that they can hold artwork, baskets, towels, soaps and misc bathroom items. Consider hanging three, above your toilet, odd number of shelves always looks best.

Take the Doors Off

If you have a linen closet inside your bathroom, consider removing the doors! Too many doors inside your bathroom can make a small space feel crowded. Style the opening shelves using trays to hold perfumes and lotions, use baskets to hold bath towels & curling irons etc.

Use All Surfaces for Extra Surface

Place a tray on top of your toilet to create a curated extra storage solution. The tray can hold artwork, photos, bathroom products, candles and jars. This is great way to stylish sneak in extra storage.

Another option is adding a small tray on top of your vanity to coral: toothbushes, candles, purfume etc. items stylishly in plain site

Hang it High

In my sons bathroom, that also serves as our guest bathroom. I hung our striped navy and white shower curtain extra tall, to help create the illusion of tall ceilings, which draw your eyes up and out.

image via Chic Little House HGTV House Feature

Think Outside the Box

Use a children's wall mounted book holder to organize your beauty products in your bathroom in a chic way. I just adore the dreamy way the a book holder was used in the bathroom below.

Add a small shelf under your mirror for holding perfumes & lotions. Also add an additional mirror to make your morning routine a breeze.

Use Baskets for Purpose & Texture

In my master bathroom below, I two used large baskets underneath our vanity to holder bathroom essentials: toilet paper and towels. This allowed our storage to double and helped create a small linen closet feeling in our petite bathroom. Plus the baskets add texture and color to a white bathroom.

Organize Cabinets & Drawers

Make the most of your vanity cabinets and get those drawers and bottom cabinet organized. Use a lazy Susan as a landing spot for bath products and baskets to hold your kids bathroom toys.

Add interior drawer organizers to keep your drawers organized, life is easier when everything is in plain sight and easy to find.

I hope you enjoyed today's Small Home Style post, please feel to email your small space design challenges at Hello@ChicLittleHouse.com I would love to help tackle those spaces.

How have you added additional chic storage in your bathroom? What design dilemmas are you facing in your bathroom?

I'm in the process of updated my Home Tour page and decided to share on my blog every Friday a tour of my home week by + share some flash backs of how my spaces & style has evolved since buying my first home. My dining room has evolved dramatically, since 2009, I can remember a time with our space felt too tiny to even 4 people at the dining room table, you can see how our dining room looked before we re-built our house after a fire here

If you also have a small dining room and are looking for ways to make better use of your space, my recent blog post is for you: 9 Way to Maximize a Small Dining Room & Give It Style.

I love how our dining room has evolved from teeny tiny room, into a dining space that feels grown-up and is perfect for my family of four & now open enough to comfortable seat 7 and most likely we could squeeze in one more person when our leaf is in our table. The crazy thing is our dining room is the exact same size as before we re-built our home. A few things changed to make things possible, we widen the doorway from our living room to dining room kitchen instantly making the space feel larger and more open but now too open. Next, I had the electricians more the dining room light so it was more centered to the dining room size. We also add crown molding the space which helps drawn yours eyes up and out, giving the room the appearance of taller ceilings, our ceilings are the standard 8ft ceilings. Trust me when I say it makes a huge difference, and I can't wait to add crown moldings in our bedrooms.

When choosing our furniture, I opted from an oval dining room table which works better in narrow rooms, and impedes less on the layout. To gain extra seating in our dining room, we added a freestanding banquette that seats 3. Adding banquette seating in a small dining room is the perfect way to increase seating a room + they look so pretty with pillows & as you all know I'm pillow crazy. Below is my dining room, along with pictures of how it looked shortly after moving back in.

Here's a look at our dining room a four months after moving back into our home. I came across the perfect vintage blonde dining room table and gave it a makeover (see the before here) In the photos before, we have the leaf in our dining room.

Below are more photos of how our dining room looks now. In addition to adding extra seating, I also hung a grid of family photos and recently added a bar cart, they are perfect for small spaces and don't have to only hold liquor! Down the line, I'd love to swap out the lighting for something a bit more dramatic!

I hope you enjoyed a tour or my dining room + some throw back pictures of the same room! Next Friday, I'm sharing my kitchen. That room has come a long way friends and it's truly the hub & heart of my small home. Each and every day I love it even more!