Little-Known Tricks and Tips for Organizing a Closet

What organization methods do you fall back on to sort your closet? It might be time to try something new if these tactics do not work. What are some lesser-known ways to neaten your custom closet?

Here are custom closet organization tips and tricks only the pros know:

• Categorize what’s inside
• Use organizers
• Utilize step ladders 
• Store items you often use near the front
• Keep an empty space 
• Expand the closet if needed 

Your space can look like a professional closet organizer worked their magic by following the suggestions above. Keep reading for actionable tips and advice.

1. Categorize What’s Inside

The biggest takeaway is to group similar items together. That’s the difference between a closet that’s mediocrely sorted and one that has that professional touch.

For example, you can use the simplest categorization system, pairing slacks with slacks and tops with tops. You can make a slightly more complex system, such as winter shirts versus spring/summer shirts or shirts by color, but you should still keep like items together.

2. Use Organizers

Shelves are handy, and custom closets offer configurable shelves. These give you the freedom to lengthen or shorten the cubby space between shelves according to your adjustments.

Configurable shelves are exceptional for year-round storage, as you can expand the storage space for heavier winter items and reduce it for warmer-weather gear.

However, there’s no need to stop there. Here is a rundown of other organizers you might consider as well as their functionality.

• Lingerie drawers: A spacious walk-in closet allows more diverse storage, including lingerie. However, these expensive underthings can get crumpled and folded when stuffed in a dresser drawer or lost at the back or underneath dresser drawers. A dedicated lingerie drawer will preserve your unmentionables.
• Accessory drawers: Do you have jewelry too large to fit in a standard jewelry box? Perhaps you own several pairs of sunglasses but don’t have cases. Accessory drawers are designed for these items and other small closet accessories that otherwise lack a home.
• Shoe fences: How long would it take you to find a matching shoe for the one you pulled out of the front of your closet? Shoe clutter is a tripping hazard, and it could damage your favorite footwear. Shoe fences help you store your shoes in pairs and keep them undisturbed.
• Tie racks: Don’t spend another day getting chewed out by your boss for being late when you can add a tie rack to your custom closet. You’ll find it so much easier to grab that matching tie, affix it, and hit the road for your morning commute.
• Divided shelves: Divided shelves are an ideal method for categorizing your clothes by like items. You can fold and stack all your pants, keep them on one shelf, and then store your shirts on another. You even have the space to organize your items by colors, styles, or seasons.
• Deep divided drawers: These drawers offer far more depth than a traditional set, and with built-in dividers, storing thicker, bulkier, or heavier items is simple. You can close the drawers and tuck these items away for fast, easy storage.

3. Utilize Step Ladders

Storing items in your closet overhead seems like a good idea at the moment. You’re opening up floor space so you can navigate the closet, and the space looks a lot neater.

Then the time inevitably arrives where you need what’s in overhead storage, and you just can’t reach it. Your options are to either go without or find a way to grab that storage container.

Keeping a retractable stepladder in your closet will help with such dilemmas. You won’t have to go all the way out to the garage to get a ladder that’s far too large and not intended for your custom closet.

Instead, you’ll have just the thing to climb up and safely access the overhead storage. When you’re done with what’s in the storage compartment, use the stepladder to replace the storage box until the next time.

4. Store Items You Use Often Near the Front

Grouping like items is paramount for good closet organization, but what if you have a lot of shirts, dresses, or slacks? You can easily end up clustering too much in your custom closet, creating chaos again.

Here’s a subcategorization of organizing your items. Store the items you use the most often closest to the front and those you use less often in the back.

For example, if you work in the office five days a week, you should have your work clothes toward the front of your closet and your fun weekend clothes in the back.

The experts at Panaprium suggest going through at least every three months to ensure the back of your closet doesn’t become an untamed jungle of forgotten stuff. You can do it more seldom if you wish, such as twice a year, but no more infrequently than that.

5. Keep an Empty Space

Here’s a common snare homeowners fall into that will leave professional closet organizers shaking their heads. If you see empty space in your closet, you feel compelled to fill it.

Perhaps you venture through your bedroom or adjoining rooms, looking for something to bridge the gap.

Why, though? A closet needn’t be jam-packed to do its job effectively. If you can store all your essentials in the closet and the surrounding space isn’t overrun with clutter, your closet is full enough.

It’s okay if you have some empty areas here and there. If anything, that’s ideal. You can go shopping and stock up without worrying about where you’ll keep everything, or you can switch seasonal items and not have to stuff anything under your bed.

Embrace empty space. You can use it if you still have more items that need closet storage but know when to say enough.

6. Expand the Closet If Needed

What if you used all your closet space efficiently yet still have more items than your closet can hold? It’s time to expand your parameters.

For example, could a jewelry box on your dresser cut down on some clutter? Perhaps you can transition some items to hanging pegs on your bedroom wall.

If you have much greater storage needs than a few pegs can put a dent in, you might consider a wardrobe on wheels or a closet armoire. These storage solutions can hold more without you having to resort to hiding items in the corners or overstuffing your dresser drawers.

Conclusion

Custom closets don’t stay organized forever. Maintaining a neat space takes continuous effort and access to suitable storage solutions. These little-known professional tricks and tips should also help!