Do you face difficulty dressing up for work every day? Is it because your closet is not organized?
When a closet is organized, everything is easier to find. This means you won’t have to spend hours finding your red sweater before work.
Maintaining a closet is an ongoing process. It differs based on the wardrobe space you have. However, this step-by-step guide curated by the professionals works for every closet. So, check it out and get your life in order.
Empty Your Closet. Then, Clean It.
If you love stacking/shoving clothes in your wardrobe, this step is going to be difficult. You must start by emptying the closet.
Take everything out—your clothes, accessories, hangers and bins. You need a clean space to visualize what goes where.
Next, dive in and deep clean the closet. Dust the shelves and hanging rods, vacuum the carpet and wipe everything with an all-purpose cleaner.
Declutter! Declutter! Declutter!
Are you somebody who loves holding on to clothes that may fit you one day? If the answer is yes, decluttering may be difficult for you.
Before you start the process, commit to discarding everything that you no longer need/wear. Focus on things that you use frequently.
Dealing with huge mountains of clothes can be overwhelming; therefore, it is best to stack them by category, and then declutter.
Once you have separated your clothes into categories, go through every single one of them, and ask yourself, do you love it? Do you wear it? Once you have the answers to these questions, you can start putting them in three piles—keep, donate, and sell.
This practice can help you decide which clothes stay in your wardrobe and which ones can be better used by someone else. It will also help you create more space for new items.
Design Your Closet Space
Now, this step is interesting. If you have the time and money to spare, call in professionals who have experience designing wardrobes in Adelaide. They can give you organizational tips and design the best space for yourself.
But if you can’t. Don’t fret! Take it as a DIY project. We bet you’ll love the results.
Start by penning down your closet’s best features, and imagine how you can utilize them to make it more spacious. Next, start designing with what you have.
Figure out what can be done with the hard-to-reach or shelfless areas in your closet. You may use them to store clothes that you occasionally wear or for special vacation outfits.
Invest in items like hanging rods, built-in shelves, rolling dressers and hooks to make the best use of your closet space.
Set Up Zones
It’s pretty obvious. For an organised space, you must set up zones.
Have a section for current season daily wears, one for party outfits and one for alternate season’s clothing. If your closet doesn’t have enough space to accommodate clothes of all seasons, consider investing in storage drawers or trunks. You can also use these storage trunks for shoes, hats, and bags.
For hanging dresses, ties, and scarfs, use hangers or eye-level rods.
Organize The Items
This is where you put everything back to where they should be. Organize the wardrobe and hang items by categories, and in order.
Group like with like, and start by :
- folding sweaters and placing them on shelves.
- hang ties, belts, scarves and pants on hangers.
- store shoes and boots in a shoe rack or shoe drawer.
- fold socks and keep them in a hanging pocket organizer.
- use vertical dividers to line bags on a shelf.
- store jewellery in a box or organizer.
Maintain Your Closet
Be it walk-in closets or built-in wardrobes Adelaide, maintaining the space is as important as organizing it. The more efforts you put in maintaining the closet, the less time you will have to spend reorganizing it.
Keep your closet clean and tidy. Make sure you always place things at their designated place.
If you follow these above-mentioned tips, you will be able to organize your space successfully.
