Check Out These Secrets for Organizing Your Custom Closets

Put Like Items With Like Items

Don’t put things together that don’t belong together just to fill space. Put jeans with jeans, T-shirts with T-shirts, dresses with dresses, and so on. If you end up with a drawer or section of the hanging rod that has empty space, just leave it – don’t fill it with random items. 

When putting away folded clothes, putting all the things that are the same size and shape together helps you stack them more effectively and securely, so they’re less likely to get jumbled. When it comes to hanging clothes, it’s easier to find what you want when everything is separated and not mixed up. 

This also works for shoes, outerwear, and accessories. Store sneakers separately from high heels, and establish separate spaces for purses and scarves. That way, you’ll always know where to reach to find what you need.

Roll Your Clothes When You Can

Your drawers aren’t always as large or deep as you might like them to be, so what method of folding saves the most space so you can get the most storage use out of the drawer? Actually… the answer is none. Rolling your clothes saves more space than either hanging or folding. Don’t worry – items that are safe to be folded are usually also safe to roll. There are only a few exceptions, such as bras and delicate items made of linen or silk. 

Some of the benefits of rolling vs. folding clothes:

• You can fit more rolled clothes in a stack, you can fill small nooks and crannies with rolls that wouldn’t accommodate a folded item, and you can store rolled items horizontally or vertically. 
• Unlike the vertical method of folding, sometimes called file folding, rolled items stored vertically don’t collapse when you remove an item or two the way that vertically folded systems tend to do. 
• Your rolled clothes will be ready to be packed up compactly when you go on vacation or move house.

Get Rid of Unwanted Items as You Go

Don’t wait until you feel like spring cleaning to get rid of things you no longer want or need. When you come across an item that doesn’t fit, is damaged, or that you don’t like anymore, get it out of the way at that time. It’s a lot easier to deal with one unwanted item at a time than it is to purge a whole closet. 

Of course, it’s understandable if you don’t necessarily have time to run one unwanted item you found to the thrift store. However, that doesn’t mean you have to put them back in your closet. Keep a box in or near the closet to drop unwanted items in as you discover them.

Make Putting Your Things Where They Belong as Easy as Possible

Sometimes, it’s putting things away that ruins a good organizational strategy. Or rather, it’s the lack of putting things away properly. Have you ever just tossed a comforter that belonged on a high shelf on the floor in the corner of the closet because it would take too long to go hunt up a stepladder to put it away? Have you ever had dirty clothes built up on the floor because it was a pain to walk them to the laundry room?

Did you know that according to The DIS, Walt Disney World positions its trash cans no more than 30 feet from each other, because that’s about how long a person will carry trash before dropping it? It’s awkward and inconvenient to carry trash around for long distances, so Disney made it easy for its guests to get rid of it the right way. You can make it easy for yourself to put things where they belong, too. 

Store a small stepladder in the corner of the closet so you can always get to the higher shelves without trouble. Install built-in hampers in the closet for dirty clothes, so you can keep the clutter off the floor. Think of ways to make it simple to put items away properly.

Conclusion

You can train yourself to be more organized with the right custom closet strategies. Store items with other items of the same kind, learn to roll your clothes, don’t let unwanted clothes build up in your closet, and set your closet up so it’s easy for you to put things where they belong.

Source

• https://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-merchandise/the-art-of-disneys-trash-cans/