You can customize these units to fit your needs. They come in many shapes and sizes. No matter what you store in your closet you can find a good storage unit that will fit your needs, from office supplies to sporting good to clothing and shoes. Get one that will fit your shoes and get them off the floor. Another for sweaters and other articles of clothing you don’t want to hang. You can also add an extra clothes rod below the original one in your closet. By doing this you can hang twice as many clothes in the same amount of space.

You can also find hangers that are made to hold several pair of slacks. This is good space saver. Inexpensive storage baskets are another good organizing tool. Perfect to use with any smaller items you may have. You can slide them on the shelf above the clothes rod or slide them into some of the space in the storage units you purchased. You can buy a special tie or belt rack to organize these items or just put a couple of well placed nails or hooks can be a quick and easy alternative to get these items organized. You can also install hooks to hang all of those hats and purses on. Getting your closet organized will make your life easier.

clothes in a closet

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This is now how I obsessively organize my own closet. Why do I do this? It’s easier to pick out an outfit. It’s easier to access what I already have so I don’t go overboard in shopping. An organized clutter free closet resembles n calm, peaceful, organized mind.

However, most closets are far from being organized. Most closets don’t only hold clothing. Closets are stuffed to the brim with old toys, linen, and coats. But for the sake of order, let’s just stick to the topic of an organized bedroom closet. Bedroom closets are notorious repositories or even final resting places for the past. Tucked in milk crates, neatly stacked on shelves, and crammed into shoe boxes are our personal relics of the past.

For those of without an attic or a storage locker, we keep our past in our personal space, where we can keep close watch over it. The shoe boxes contain old love letters and photographs of forgotten times. Current love artifacts are proudly placed in photo albums lined up on the living room book shelves, or memorialized in quaint scrap books. Preserved like fossils the remnants of our past are stored side by side with the clothes we wear every day. The outfits we blaze our new trails in. The clothes and shoes of now don’t belong with the burdens of the past. If we can’t display these items out in the open, we should let them go. An organized closet should represent the vitality and clutter free space of the present moment.

Well organized office closet

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The heavier and darker the item, the further back in the closet it should be. The process of creating an organized closet begins with taking an inventory of what you have. Remove all the clothes out of the closet and place them in piles. Jackets, tee shirts, sweaters, dress shirts, dress pants, jeans, dresses, and skirts should be separated by type, size, and color. This will make organizing the closet much faster.

First, take the darkest, heaviest jackets and sweaters and hang them on the lowest shelf in the closet near the back. Then, take the lightest tee shirts and skirts and put them on the lowest shelf near the front of the closet. Next, the darkest, heaviest jeans should be placed on the highest shelf in the back of the closet. Follow this, by putting the lightest dresses and dress pants near the front of the closet on the highest shelf. You should continue putting your clothes back in the closet from heaviest to lightest and lightest to darkest until all the clothes are organized.

After you are finished with the clothes, your shoes can be organized in a similar fashion. Take the biggest, darkest shoes and place them near the back of your closet. Then take the lightest, smallest shoes and place them near the front of the closet. Keep organizing the shoes until they are all in order. Once you are finished, take a look at the closet as a whole. You will soon realize how much this one step will make your life a bit simpler.

Organized Closet

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My husband and I go to work at different times. Usually, he is out of the house first. However, the day that convinced me that my closet had to be organized, I had to go to work several hours early. The alarm sounded at an unreasonable hour, wakening me from a dead sleep. Mornings and I do not mix well, and I was only half awake as I stumbled towards the rest room. Since I wanted to let my husband sleep longer, I did not turn on the light. As I walk towards the rest room, which I have navigated many nights in the dark with no problem, I tripped over a shoe that had obviously bounced out of the closet when I had tossed two of them into the closet the night before.

Fortunately, I recovered from this stumble, but I should have heeded the warning offered by the lone shoe. After showering, I make my way from the rest room, still in the dark and wearing only the suit that God gave me. I again stumble over the dreaded solitary shoe, and as I try to right myself, my other foot catches on the sister of the first shoe, causing me to plummet onto the disorganized contents that filled my closet floor, narrowly missing the open closet door. I was never able to close the closet door, because there was always something in the way.

Regardless of my good intention of letting my husband sleep, I see the light come on as he hears the crash, a few expletives, and my whimpering. Needless to say, he was wide awake. After ensuring that I had not broken anything, including the closet’s infrastructure, he began to laugh, which further hurt my bruised pride, which matched my bruised and twisted ankle. I can now state that I have an organized closet. I wonder if I should be worried about my storage room, which I may take on next.

An unorganized closet can make it hard to reach your clothes

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I measured the blouses and skirts to see if they would fit the rods. Skirts were on the rod closer to the floor and the blouses were on the top rod. I divided these rods with a shelf to the floor for the folded sweaters. Then next to that shelf I hung a rod for dresses or longer items. If I did not have a lot of shoes, I would arrange then on the floor under the dresses.

Alternatively, I get a handing shoe rack that holds about 24 pairs and hang it next to the rod with the dresses. Coats and jackets are kept in a hall closet, for easy access for the different seasons. There was also a shelf put above the rods. These were used for purses, an umbrella, gloves and hats. By putting the blouses and skirts this way it gives you more room to hand these items. Sometimes I keep the shoe boxes and stack the boxes on top of each other by season.

Boots are not included the closet they are either placed in the basement or put in the hall closet on a small plastic boot tray. This way it will keep the closet clean and free from salt from in the winter months, and leaves and dirt the other seasons. I do have a separate closet in the hall next to the bathroom where I keep towels, hand towels, and face cloths. This also includes sheet sets, divided by size of the bed, blankets also divided by the size of the bed. With a little organization, it is easy to have easy access to basically everything in your closet.

My closet before the redesign

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