I used to keep spare sheets and towels in our laundry room (like a normal person) until detergent dripped
all over them one day… 
Finding a new spot for our linens was necessary but nonobvious, since bedroom
closets are less accessible, and we don’t have a linen closet. I needed a unique solution! 
Check it out! I installed two of these
Ikea STÄLL shoe cabinets
in the wider back half of our hallway (between the bedrooms).
(They’re available in oak veneer now, which I totally would have gotten instead.)
My sister insists they look like mailboxes. 
I filled the compartments with queen sheets (x2), king sheets (for the upstairs pull-out couch), “car” blankets (for nighttime rides), quick-dry beach towels, beach blankets, hooded bath towels (other bath towels are in our bathroom), and exercise towels. Kids’ (twin, crib, pack-n-play) sheets are in their room.
And of course, we need labels! I printed labels onto transparencies and attached them to the handles with shipping tape.
As a bonus, keeping linens in the hallway seems to help with dampening noise! 
Super functional solution! 
Shilpa Kobren is the Associate Director of Rare Disease Analysis at Harvard Medical School where she focuses on analyzing genomic sequencing data with patient clinical information to derive insights into human diseases. Shilpa lives in an 1890s urban apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two energetic toddlers. She retains her sense of peace amid the chaos by creating and iteratively improving systems that optimize daily efficiency in her family's constrained living space.