Your closet can quickly get over-run with clothes, shoes, suitcases, boxes, blankets, and more. When your closet gets cramped, your lifestyle gets cramped. This usually means that you are always running late, can't find what you need, and your clothes are actually getting damaged and stretched just from you digging through them all the time. Follow these simple steps to turn your cramped closet into a closet that you love.
Evaluate your closet space and determine what percentage you are actually using for storage and how much you're using for your everyday things. You should minimize the amount of things that you store in your closet so that you can actually find what you need when you need it. Try moving some of your storage items into different areas of your home. Under the bed or into the garage are popular options. You probably have more storage space than you think all around your home. Be creative and take advantage of spaces underneath couches, in corner hutches, and in old dressers.
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Have you ever lived in a house that had a lot of square footage but still seemed cramped? The layout of your closet is just as important as the layout of your home. Making things easily accessible and efficient can make all the difference. Try to keep the things that you use most often easy to reach. Use bins and baskets with open tops so that you can easily throw in socks or find that one swim top that you would normally have to search for.
Arranging your clothing on the bar is important, too. Randomly hanging everything in your closet is an inefficient use of the space. You can hang short items all together and create space below them for a small dresser, some shelving, or a tall, accessible shoe rack. Keeping work clothes separate from casual clothes will help you to get out the door quickly when you need to.
To keep your clothes from getting wrinkled, smashed together, or stretched out, you should use the right clothes hangers. Hangers are designed with specific uses in mind. Using the right ones will help you to protect your clothing while making your closet look great. Cedar hangers make your closet smell wonderful. Metal hangers offer the space saving benefit that wire hangers do, but you won't have to deal with bending or rusting. Some hangers will let you coordinate outfits, saving you time and space without sacrificing quality.