Organizing that closet can be just as challenging as trying to find anything in it! You invest a lot of money in your clothes, don’t just cram them into your closet, organizing your closet can not only prolong the life of your clothing but keep you from buying duplicates of items and help you revive what you wear giving you new outfits.
Some prefer to organize their closet by color while others prefer to organize by article of clothing, blouses, skirts, and pants.
You will need, hangers (3 different colors) 2 hangers for multiple pairs pants, and hangers for skirts. Plastic containers or baskets for folded clothes, several containers with lids for storing accessories, your choice of a system for storing shoes. 3m hooks I use several.
I am the typical women in that my shoes probably out number my amount of friends on Facebook. There are several methods to organizing your shoes. I have seen women use their camera and take pictures of each shoe taping the picture to the outside of the shoe box and stack the shoe boxes so that the picture can be seen. If that works for you great! What you use needs to make your shoes visible and easy to get shoes out. Keep in mind the space you have and the amount of shoes you own. You don’t want your system for organizing your shoes to take up more than 1/3 of your space on shoes. I have seen women go out and spend hundreds on the 7 dollar box that shoes your shoes off and the front of the box flips open and the shoe slides out the side. These are nice but not budget friendly. I myself use milk crates and recycled toy bins. I place the shoes in categories of pumps, sandals, and activity. For shoes I really love and don’t want to place in a group bin I do the picture thing. I have a friend who uses over the door shoe rack for the shoes that she wears the most. Making them easy to grab and go, she boxes and stacks the others that she wears on other occasions. The shoe rack is nice as well but it can take up valuable floor space, try using one and then placing the others in a different system. Don’t be afraid to try different types of organization systems and mix with others in order to find what works for you. Keep in mind the total amount of space you can use in your closet don’t waste your space budget. You should be able to organize your closet without spending too much money.
Accessorize, belts, hats, gloves, scarves, pins. We have tons of items that we use with our outfits. Try placing items like belts, and in an open basket or investing in a hanger for belts it can work for scarves as well, if you have the room.
Find and designate a box for winter gear. This way you can move it in and out of the closet to leave yourself more room.
Thanks to Kat Middleton and the royals hats and fascinators are making a comeback, if you’re willing to invest in the hats, invest in hat boxes for your hats. This will help them stay clean and keep their shape. Use acid free tissue paper to tuck them in.
Purses- are just as bad as shoes. Use hooks in your close to hang larger bags, small clutches and hand bags can be placed in a plastic container to store in your closet, larger bags can be placed in an open basket. Try to store bags on their bottoms and the packing bubbles and tissue paper in order to store and help keep the purses shape.
Choose what works for you, organizing by clothing piece, or by color. I use a hybrid all of my tops are organized by color with space for shirts with patterned material. I organize the colors with tanks on the right, t-shirts in the middle, and longer sleeved shirts on the left. Organizing this way makes putting away and finding them much easier. For bottoms I have them on one side of the closet and they are also sorted by color. My point is, your options for organizing and where to place items are limitless.
Try this: I bout 3 different colors of hangers; blue hangers are for dress clothes, purple hangers for athletic wear, and pink are for casual clothes. You could also use them this way; red hangers for t-shirts, orange, for tanks, and halters types, black for blouses and long sleeved shirts.
Swap it I use several large plastic containers one for spring and two for winter to swap clothes out. Giving me more room in my closet before I place items in them they are cleaned, pressed, and nicely folded so that they are ready for their next use. I keep my staple pieces year round but add and subtract based on season and weather.
Designate a box in the closet for a lint roller, shoe polish, heal guards, buttons, and safety pins, patch kit, sewing kit and any other miscellaneous clothing pieces.
