The Gorgeous Way To Hide Your Toilet Plunger In Plain Sight

If your house has a bathroom (and it should), then you need a toilet plunger. That's just the plain, though maybe unpleasant, truth of it. What doesn't have to be unpleasant is how your plunger's presented. Normally, it sits beside the toilet in all of its suction-y un-glory, with its red bowl of a face hugging the floor right next to your commode. What this issue needs is a solution that allows it to blend into your chic bathroom decor — to essentially hide in plain sight until it's needed.

You'll have to change out your plain ol' clunky plunger to work out this hack. It's best to go to your nearby home goods store and look for a plunger that sits inside a short, narrow base. Those two features — short and narrow — make it hideable. Otherwise, the plunger's style is irrelevant. While you're still in the home goods store, take a gander at the different vases available. You'll need one that's taller than the base the plunger sits in. The vase must also have an opening that's wider than the diameter of the plunger's base.

Here are some tips for choosing the vase. First, get a vase that complements the bathroom tile. And go with a ceramic vase instead of a glass one. If the vase is made of glass, it'll be see-through. No hiding in plain sight here. Second, get two more vases that complement the first one, so you have enough plant vases to implement the rule of three. Make them different heights and vary the widths, but unify them with a cohesive color palette.

If you've gone with just one vase for this, styling it is pretty simple. You'll drop the plunger, base and all, into the vase. That's it. However, the handle will stick up out of the top of the vase, and if you've purchased a plunger with an unsightly handle, you may want to cover it. For example, you could wind some KIWIHUB Colored Craft Tape around the handle — though this might be a tricky job. 

On the one hand, the tape needs to be wrapped far enough down the handle to cover it. On the other hand, you don't want it to go all the way to the plunger head. It'll eventually wear away and become yucky after a number of dunkings. What you want to do is wrap the tape around the handle until it reaches about an inch below the vase's sightline. That way, once you put the plunger back in its home, the still-exposed portion of the handle will hide just below the lip of the vase's opening.

Finally, to style your vase, take the plunger away from its usual perch beside the toilet and place it in a corner where it's easy enough to reach but out of its normal context. This will be another way to help hide it. If you've bought more than one vase, consider putting tall faux plants, such as Mavis's Diary Snake Plants, in the other two. Cluster the three vases together. The plants should hide the plunger a bit, especially if you position the plunger's vase behind the others.