Custom Closets Can Help You Conquer These Clutter Monsters

Opening the closet door only to be confronted with a jumbled mess is not a great way to start your day. Closet messes are a common problem, but they don’t have to be a fact of life that you just have to deal with. There are tools and strategies that can help you combat closet mess. Custom closets are an important factor in keeping your closet neat because they provide you with a place for all of your belongings.

Here are some ways you can overcome clutter in your custom closets:

• Straighten Out Your Shoe Collection
• Lighten Your Load on Laundry Day
• Organize Your Accessories
• Stack Your Shirts and Sweaters on Shelves

Check out the different ways that your custom closets can help you defeat the clutter monsters in your life.

Straighten Out Your Shoe Collection

When it comes to cluttered closets, shoes are one of the worst offenders. A heap of disorganized shoes on a closet floor can do a lot to make a closet look messy and feel unmanageable. It’s not good for the shoes, either – they can end up getting lost or becoming damaged when other shoes or items are piled on top of them.

When planning your custom closet, it’s important to consider organizers that will help you get your shoes under control. Real Simple shares some useful ideas for organizing shoes.  Clear shoe boxes can be stacked and allow you to see exactly what’s in each box, so you only grab what you need and don’t have to disturb the rest of the shoes.

Installing some shoe shelves also gives you a convenient way to store shoes and make them easy to grab at the same time. There’s also the over-the-door shoe organizer, which comes with rows of pockets that can each fit a pair of shoes, getting them off the floor and turning your empty closet door into useful storage space.

Lighten Your Load on Laundry Day

Laundry is another thing that ends up piled on the floor of the closet, making it look unkempt and difficult to wade through. You can install hampers in your closet that give you places to put all your laundry as you make it. Then on laundry day, everything is in one place and easy to retrieve.

You can make your laundry day even easier by installing a set of laundry organizers or built-in hampers that let you separate your laundry into different categories. Come wash day, everything will already be sorted into lights and darks and delicates, or whatever categories you use.

Organize Your Accessories

Accessories make the outfit, so it helps you get ready in the mornings if you have all of your accessories near your clothes. However, you don’t want to end up with belts spread all over the surfaces, scarves scattered on the floor, or tangled jewelry tossed haphazardly to the side.

There are lots of custom closet organizers that are made to help you store accessories. Try belt hooks, scarf racks, and jewelry organizers or trays to help keep these items separated, in good shape, and away from floors and surfaces.

Stack Your Shirts and Sweaters on Shelves

Some items don’t belong on hangers, like sweaters. Others, like T-shirts, can be hung or folded, but could easily end up taking up more space than you have in dresser drawers or on clothing rods just because it’s so easy to collect so many of them. What’s to be done about this? Shelves are a good answer.

A regular closet may have only one shelf above the clothing rods, but a custom closet can include shelves in more places. Almost anywhere you see empty wall space is a place where shelves could be installed. Shelves allow you to stack bulky items like sweaters or numerous items like t-shirts. This leaves more space on both rods and in dresser drawers while keeping these items safe and folded.

Divided shelves further help you keep your stacks separate and neat. This way, you can also easily see and grab these items when you need them, which is helpful because these are often items that are worn regularly. Adjustable shelves help you keep putting your things away neatly even as your needs and wardrobe contents change.

Conclusion

Custom closets contain features that can address common pain points when it comes to disorganization. Shoe organizers, hampers, accessory organizers, and shelves are all useful items to help your custom closet stay neat.