Is it time you reorganised your clothing? Sorting out your mess of clothes could help you to more easily find the items you need when you need them. It could also make your wardrobe more presentable, helping you to take pride in your room. Below are 5 ways to organise your clothes that are both efficient and stylish.
By Team Savant
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Get A Fitted Wardrobe
You can maximize clothing storage space in your bedroom by installing a fitted wardrobe. This is a wardrobe that is custom-built to fit the space in your bedroom. Fitted wardrobes typically take up a whole wall and can be built around sloped ceilings, alcoves and other features. You can decide how much space is dedicated to hanging clothes and how much is dedicated to drawers or shelves. You can also choose the materials and the color.
Fitted wardrobes sadly aren’t cheap. Another disadvantage is that you cannot take them with you when you move. That said, they can give you full control as to how you design and organize your wardrobe, plus they may even add value to your home.
Opt For An Open Rail
You don’t have to opt for a closet-style wardrobe. In fact, more people are opting for open clothing rails instead. Open clothing rails force you to maintain a tidy and minimal range of clothes — you can’t get away with hiding piles of clothes like you can with a wardrobe. This could be ideal if you’ve been trying to seriously cut down your clothing.
Clothes rails are available in all different styles. You could try a wooden rail for a rustic touch or even add a pipe clothes rail for an industrial look. Alternatively, you can stick to a standard rail.
Give Your Shoes A Home
Where do you keep your shoes? Are they neatly stored on a rack or in a container? Or are they piled on the floor?
Adding a shoe rack or storage unit could help you to organise your shoes. There are all kinds of shoe storage ideas that you can explore. Many people use metal racks, but you can also use shelves or cabinets with fold-out drawers.
Separate Clothes Into Baskets On Shelves
Instead of using drawers for storing clothes, you could consider using baskets on shelves. Wicker baskets can add a nice rustic touch. You can also divide your clothes up into more categories and access them more easily.
You could label each basket to help you find the right clothes. If you love color coordinating your outfits, you could even use color coded baskets (such as having a basket for black clothes, one for white clothes, one for blue clothes etc.).
Create Your Own Walk-In Wardrobe
Do you have the space for a walk-in wardrobe? If so, this could be the perfect way to organize all your clothes giving you much more space to put everything.
A spare bedroom, a loft space or even a cupboard under the stairs could be turned into a walk in wardrobe. Check out some of these walk-in wardrobe ideas.