Organized Closet

Having a well organized closet is one of the best ways to stay organized and to feel good about your home.

You may have your house picked up and neat looking when guests come over, but your closets tell the real story of how organized a person you really are.

Do you grab your guest's coats as they walk in and put them on your bed even if there are only a few people coming over? You probably have an overstuffed closet that you don't want people to see.

I can understand if there are many people and many coats not having room. But you should have enough room in one organized closet near the front door for 3 or 4 coats from your guests.

Closets work best when there is some excess room in them. Closets are really no different than any other room in your house. You don't want so much stuff in them. You don't want your rooms stuffed, do you?

Why would you want your closets stuffed?

Go to my article on clutter to get more of my ideas on removing clutter.

One of the best inventions for homes has been the closet systems.

The melamine particle board and wire shelving is really nice.

If you have the money, California Closets has a fantastic product for any organized closet.

We put a California Closet system in the master bedroom closet of our first home and it really helped. The salesperson came to our house, measured the closet and drew up a plan right in front of us. It was quite impressive.

We ordered the system and a professional installer put it in within about a week after we ordered it.

The closet system was not cheap but for our little, old house with small closets it helped us a lot to have an organized closet in our master bedroom.

I have installed a lot of the wire type closet inserts over the years both in our first house and second house.

I am fairly handy, but not a carpenter so I would think that a lot of people could install these systems themselves.

They are a huge improvement over the single wood pole with shelf over it. That system only works if you have lots of closets and are continually throwing out. This is the closet system I have now, by the way.

This works because I am in a 2 bedroom apartment. The kids only keep a few clothes here. My bedroom has 2 huge closets, the second bedroom has 2 large closets and there is a front hall closet. I also am continually throwing clothes out.

Check out this link on how to put your clothes in the closet: Organized Closet Video. These ideas are pretty intense for a guy but the ideas are sound.

It should be obvious to keep all the like items together. I have my clothes hanging in the closet in this order starting from the far left:

1) Work pants.

2) Work shirts. Short sleeves first in summer, long sleeves first in winter.

3) Casual shirts next. Again, short sleeves first in summer.

4) Sweatshirts and sweaters.

5) Nice T-shirts.

6) Jeans.

Shoes are on the floor.

I have my white T-shirts and boxer shorts on the shelf above. I also keep my stocked travel kit on this shelf.

Socks are kept in a medium sized dresser.

I keep workout clothes, shorts, casual, T-shirts, and lounge wear in the hall closet. This closet is big enough to also hold all the sheets, pillowcases and also extra toiletries and other things like that.

My front closet holds all my coats, hats, gloves, suitcases, boots, umbrella, workout bag, beach bag, ironing board, iron, some balls, Christmas tree and decorations, a few bins filled with information and cardboard boxes from my latest electronics.

This closet isn't even that big. I also have plenty of room for at least another 8 -10 coats for guests.

I have some nails in the walls to hold my hats. Never be afraid of customizing your closet to hold things in a way that makes sense and make it a well organized closet.

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