Learning how to organize a closet is a process of cleaning up what space you have now, creating new space, and preventing that space from getting cluttered in the future. Organizing a closet isn’t all about installing drawers or complicated “organizing” hardware – it is a daily commitment to keeping your “stuff” tidy and easily accessible. If you are planning on organizing a closet, there are five key terms to remember. Follow the advice here and be on your way to professional-style closet organization in no time.
1. Simple – Keeping your closet organized should never be a chore. If you let your closet get badly disorganized in the first place you’re probably not prone to performing complex chores. Yes, organizing your closet and conserving space are important, but if your new organization system isn’t easy to maintain you’ll be back to your old habits in no time. Keep your organization and space saving methods as simple as possible. What good is an organized closet if you’re scared to use it?
2. Flexible – If you go into a closet organization project with too many things “set in stone”, you’ll quit before you’re halfway through. Our entire lives are made of compromise – we need the ability to be flexible in our working life and in our social life. When organizing a closet, keep an open mind and be flexible about your new closet organization style. Specifically, you may have to give up a certain feature that you love (the “open feeling” of a particular closet) in order to install one that you need (extra shelving or organization tools taking up space). Your new closet is like a big puzzle in 3-D – closets are generally small, and organizing them usually means making big changes. Be flexible.
3. User-friendly – Your goal when organizing your closet is to build new habits that match with your new closet setup. Not only should your design be simple to use, as addressed above, but it should be easy for YOU PERSONALLY to use. Only you know the areas of cleaning and organization that you have trouble with. Build your new organization system with your personal habits in mind. Better yet – build an organization system that matches the daily routine you already have.
4. Clutter-free – Don’t get caught up in the world of “closet organization tools”. If you’re ready to organize your closet, you know what things need to be installed and what “gimmicks” you just won’t use. Before you go out and buy that electric tie-rack, ask yourself if it is worth the clutter. Remember that there are usually simple ways to achieve the same goals these “organization tools” promise.
5. Consistent – As a final note, when you’re putting together an organizational project make sure that all the parts of your closet “match”. Don’t install white shelving with gold hardware and paint the interior red – unless that’s a look you want. Remember that the finished product will have to be attractive to you for you to use it. Keep your design details consistent and the final organized closet will look like it was put together by an interior designer.
And that, my friends, is how to organize a closet.
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