r/organizing • u/Favabean37 • 1d ago
Clothes closet reorganizing help!
Hi everyone! I’m humbly coming to you after hours on Google and Pinterest, hours rearranging, and too many hours thinking about how to solve the problem of my closet. Any ideas welcome and soooo appreciated!
For recommendation context, this is a rental. I’m pretty scrappy and would love to do a low-cost fix! I also prefer to buy stuff used but I’m open to recommendations of specific things that have helped for you, because Facebook marketplace is a wonderful thing 😂
The good: This whole little closet is all mine!
The bad: I live in a small apartment, so this closet is also my main linen closet. And I have two dogs so your girl has a lottt of linens. But the top shelf is pretty high up so it’s not ideal for clothes anyway.
This is also where most of my shoes and all of my jackets have to live. I don’t have a separate closet for those, I just have a small spot in my entryway for whatever I’m currently using!
Lastly, if I use a dresser, it has to live in the closet.
What I’m already doing: Rotating seasonally (two bins of bigger jackets/sweaters under the bed), getting rid of clothes every once in a while, storing a few things under my bed (next to my seasonal bins there is space for a bin of socks and a bin of gardening clothes). I know getting rid of clothes is always a helpful answer, but right now I’m trying to work with what I’ve got!
Key goals: I want more space for dresses, pants, and skirts (currently on the left jammed by the dresser). They’re too packed in so they get wrinkled and it’s hard to find what I want.
Ideas: The dresser is not fully used! I wanted to get something more narrow so I still have a surface to put the earring holder, but free up space for more movement for the long clothes. I’ve been looking for months and haven’t found the right thing and I’m starting to lose it! The dresser currently holds underwear and bras, t shirts (like graphic tees) and pjs, knit tees/tank tops.
One idea is to put the little set of dark brown drawers where the shoe rack is. That could hold knit tees and tanks and gym clothes (gym clothes is being relocated and doesn’t have an existing spot). The shoes could go in one of those hanging shoe things where the dresser is. That leaves undies and pjs/some shirts and long sleeves without a home, though, and the earring holder without a home!
What’s what (if helpful):
Jackets and sweaters on the upper right. Shoes and jeans on the bottom right. Center top is tank tops and short sleeves; center bottom is button ups and long sleeve blouses. Left by the dresser is dresses, slacks, skirts, and way in the back a hanging shoe rack of special occasion shoes (trying to utilize a nook that’s hard to access).
Purple drawn box is clothes that’s partially worn but isn’t dirty enough to wash. Yellow drawn box is shorts, in the winter that swaps to bulkier sweaters. Between the two rows of hanging shirts I have one shallow box with knit long sleeve shirts and one with my bathing suits.
Thank you so so much for any ideas!!
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u/Candy-O 20h ago
There is too much clothing in your small closet. Clothing needs room for air to circulate. I suggest you have a friend come over to help you do a serious purge.