How to make order in the closet?

Things that people surround themselves with tend to accumulate over time. Whatever the size of the house or apartment, many housewives begin to notice that nothing fits anywhere. Therefore, the task of how to make order in the closet and arrange things so that it is convenient to use them is an important issue in many homes. But with the help of our tips from this article, you can easily deal with it.

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Correct cabinet

An excellent solution to this problem is the closet, but only if it is correctly thought out and installed - only then it will make it possible to place many things. And although, at first glance, it seems that there is nothing complicated in this matter - I bought a closet and put things in it, nevertheless there are a couple of rules and recommendations thanks to which you can use the closet space most conveniently.

Rule 1

It is necessary to make, as well as install a cabinet that will ideally suit the existing conditions in the room. Today, custom-made furniture is a fairly common type of activity that is in demand by many consumers. Therefore, so that the cabinet can satisfy all your needs, it is better to invent it yourself with the help of a wizard.

Rule 2

No need to accumulate things that nobody has been using for a long time in a closet. This is perhaps one of the most important rules. Even in the largest closet or apartment there will not be enough space for the necessary things, if everywhere and everywhere there are bundles, packages, hangers and boxes laid out with what might be useful sometime.

Important! Clothing hanging and waiting for better times is best given to those who really need it. Everything that may be useful sometime, but in fact, has not been used for the past few years, should free up space for the right things.

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If there is no closet

If there is no place for a full-fledged closet in the room, then you can try to allocate some part of the room for shelves and racks. Often such a space is in the bedroom, because guests are rarely there and you can take some corner to equip an impromptu wardrobe.

Correctly arranging things in the closet is not an easy task:

• Frequently used accessories can be placed on shelves that are at eye level.
• What you take out and wear less often can be sent to the upper shelves, and bags and boxes with things used very rarely, for example, seasonally, it is better to place them on the lower shelves.
• Often in a closet or on a separate shelf there are a lot of boxes with seasonal shoes, but finding in them exactly the pair that you need at the moment is not always easy. In order not to get confused and not lose time due to useless searches, each box can be signed.

Important! Some housewives take a photograph of each pair and simply stick them to the boxes in which the pair is located. Although it looks funny, it’s much more convenient to look for shoes this way.

• It is most convenient to store socks and underwear in the sliding drawers of the chest of drawers. If the room does not have such a piece of furniture, then drawers can be arranged in the closet.

Important! These can be shallow and narrow boxes, but each family member should have at least two of them. Then all the things can be decomposed as intended, they will not be dusted and striking as soon as you open the closet.

In the process of designing an individual cabinet, you must try to maximize the use of all available inside space. Even small corner shelves and hooks on the inside of the door can be useful for convenient placement of necessary things.

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Where do the unnecessary things come from?

To make order in the closet, you need to understand where things come from that are then in the closet for many years and are not used by anyone. Understand this, if only in order to further try to avoid such acquisitions. There are several situations where people can buy something just like that:

• Sales and promotions - this is the strongest trick of marketers and sellers who are trying to impose their product, and they do it, because few can safely pass by the “discount” sign.
• Another situation when a person acquires at least something is entertainment walking in shopping malls and shops instead of, for example, walking in a park. “Just taking a walk and seeing” certainly ends with the purchase of something new and far from always necessary.
• Sometimes we buy things that are very beautiful and of high quality, but when we get home, we realize that they are completely unsuitable in our other things, and then they have to hang in the closet unnecessarily.
• In many closets, especially women's ones, you can find many things that remind of something: a graduation gown, the first stilettos that are very tight, a scarf from a former young man, and much more. This is an absolutely irrational use of useful space.

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Get rid of unnecessary things

According to statistics, only 20% of all his things a person wears 80% of his time. The rest is on the shelves, making it difficult to find the right things, taking up space and free energy in the house.

Important! No need to store things that you have not used in the last couple of years. Most likely, they will not be used further. Therefore, you need to remove things in the closet selectively.

Shape changes

On the shelves of a women's cabinet you can often find things that are not suitable for her size. They can be divided into two types:

• “This is still a little small for me, but by the summer I will definitely lose weight and will wear it.”
• "I managed to lose weight, and now things are too big, but suddenly I will get better again."

It is undesirable to leave neither those nor other things that are not suitable for you in size. It is not known whether it will turn out to lose weight by summer or not. And maybe it will turn out not by this summer, but by the next, when the fashion has already changed, and with it the mood.

Important! As experience and practice show, only one out of hundreds of such things await their case. In other situations, such things are still sent to the trash, but after several years of absolutely useless being in the wardrobe.

Beautiful fixtures

To maintain order in the closet with your own hands and it was more pleasant and easier, you should also create not only a comfortable, but also an attractive environment. It is advisable to leave shoe boxes only of a pleasant appearance, and not rumpled or torn. If there is a desire and time, you can paste them with gift paper or old wallpaper.

Important! Try not to use plastic disposable hangers, they not only look ugly, but due to poor quality they can make puffs on clothes. It is better to purchase the same wooden coat hanger, which will please the hostess with its neat appearance.

We hang things right

In addition, it is undesirable to hang many things on one hanger at once - this will greatly complicate the search for necessary clothes. On the shoulders should be hanging only one thing on the crossbar - a skirt or trousers, and a maximum of two things on the top of the hanger. Better let them be more in the closet than the entire closet fits on three shoulders.

Important! The main rule for the proper storage of any clothes hanging on hangers is to fasten the item on all buttons.This will keep intact not only the buttons, but the clothes themselves will retain their shape and look neater. But sweaters and blouses with wool are undesirable to hang on the shoulders, as they can stretch out and will look ugly.

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Sorting

To make order in the closet and take apart the clothes, it should be pulled out and the closet and put on the floor in one big pile.

Important! The floor, of course, must be pre-washed. It can also be covered with an old clean bedspread or sheet.

Now you need to sort the clothes, dividing it into several groups:

• Adult - children. First of all, you need to separate the adult clothes from the children's, put it in two piles. Then, the selection principles that are described below should be applied to each of these heaps.
• It is necessary - it is not necessary. Taking up another item, answer the question: do you need this thing or not. Whether it is constantly worn or has long been idle in the closet because it has gone out of fashion or has become small (large). Everything that is being worn actively is piled up in one pile, that which only takes up space, in another.
• Season is not season. If a thing does not correspond to the season of socks, then it should be sent for storage, after evaluating the cleanliness and possible damage that should be repaired (sew a button, change the zipper, sew). As a rule, off-season items are stored on distant racks, shelves or in mezzanines, waiting for their turn. So they will not bother you when searching for any specific thing that is needed right now.
• Clean - dirty. Carry out a cleanliness audit in each pile. Dirty items are sent to the laundry tub, while the clean ones are sorted further.
• Large - small. It is necessary to organize storage of things in relation to their size. Namely: small items, such as belts, shirts, stockings, underpants, tights, leggings, socks, are conveniently stored in chest drawers, and not on a shelf in a closet.
• Hang - fold. Some items of clothing are very easy to crumple, so they should be placed on hangers, and not on shelves. This type of thing includes shirts, dresses, skirts, trousers, jackets. And on the shelves, knitted pullovers, sweatshirts, sweatshirts, cotton t-shirts, jeans will feel more comfortable.

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How to place things in the closet?

So, after we sorted things, and we have only the most necessary. Now we need to make order in the closet.

Maintaining balance - not tight, but not empty

You need to observe the principle of balance. For starters, you should optimally use all the planes in the cabinet:

• When sorting clothes, select those that are similar in size and purpose, and also separately set aside what may be in the boxes.
• Do not forget that the closet should not be crowded. All shoes and clothing should be placed in such a way that at any time you could get it out of the closet in a matter of seconds.
• At the same time, the important point is the question of whether you can get what you need without disturbing other things in the closet. If not, then your order is not optimal, and within a few days there will again be a mess in your closet.

Important! There must be a mirror on the wardrobe door. If you try to run to another room all the time to try on clothes, then with a shortage of time your things will be scattered throughout the house.

Underwear and socks

Cardboard boxes for storing small items can now be bought in many stores. In the closet, these boxes are convenient to use for linen, socks. Then the shelf can be used in its entirety, including the vertical space, which is often empty.

Important! Before you put things in such boxes, you should sort them by purpose, composition and color.

If you have drawers in your closet, you can store linen and socks in them. In this case, you need to divide the box into several sections using cardboard partitions. In addition, now in many hardware stores you can buy organizers for such things.

Footwear

It is also quite convenient to store some shoes right in the boxes. As mentioned above, in order not to look for the right pair for a long time, you can sign boxes or stick photographs of shoes on the ends of the boxes.

Important! The boxes themselves can be compactly placed at the bottom of the cabinet or on the mezzanine, taking into account both the size of the boxes and how often you use one or another pair.

T-shirts and jumpers

To properly arrange things in a closet, do not forget that knitwear is usually stored on shelves. And it will be even more convenient if the standard shelves are replaced with sliding trays with sides.

Important! To prevent a T-shirt or jumper from wrinkling, try not to fold them, but carefully roll them into the roller.

Jewelry, ties, belts

Ties, belts and large jewelry are most conveniently placed on the cabinet door. If your wardrobe does not have a special hanger on the door, then you can do it yourself. For example, from a towel bar in the form of a crossbar. On this hanger you can hang hooks (from the shower curtain). On this type of design, all your jewelry, belts and ties will be like on a display case - the choice can be made quickly and conveniently.

Things on the shoulders

The shoulders should be selected to the size of the cabinet, best of all - wooden. For clothes made of easily deformable fabric, special soft shoulders are needed.

Also use dividers in the closet - hang trousers, blouses and skirts separately. Or you can arrange things on a different principle - to hang clothes, pre-assembling sets. All this later will save your time.

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Stock footage

The more things you have in your wardrobe, the more difficult it is to keep them in order and keep track of which things you always wear and which ones you wear from time to time. Therefore, it is better to leave only the necessary, practical and beloved in your closet. Then the order will be maintained by itself, and you will only have to conduct an audit several times a year to maintain cleanliness. Follow the tips above, and it will be quite easy to restore order in the cabinet with your own hands.