If you’re like me, getting stuck inside due to extreme weather creates an imbalance. There is this creative energy that builds up and longs to be expressed. Maybe you’re a crafter or someone with the discipline to exercise indoors at home. Me? As a homebody who thrives with order, I feel compelled to organize. These closet organization ideas will hopefully help by providing motivation and visual inspiration to get us moving. Let’s face it. My energy can be quite low in the winter. Even though I truly want those spaces organized, my joints, muscles, and physical capacities may have competing ideas about the execution! (So thinking about organizing is a lot easier than following through if you’re me!).
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Closet Organization Ideas & Spruce-ups for Less Chaos
Emotional Prep Before I Lift a Finger
I find that I have to first get centered in my intentions when it comes to bringing order to my closets and drawers. We all have different personalities and organization styles, and I am not one who can jump right into the disorder and begin sorting.
It takes a plan where I first get my head on straight about why it’s even worth the time and energy to address straightening those drawers. How will clearing the clutter and creating more efficiency benefit my daily functioning and mental wellness?
Once I have a picture in my head and a feeling in my bones of how the outcome will prosper us, then the mobilization can occur.
Another important piece of the emotional part of preparing to tackle organization projects? Remembering that corralling the chaos and ushering in more order is not a race.
In fact, it’s more important to put in place the most effective organization systems for YOU than to just execute an arbitrary organization plan quickly.
When I acknowledge that I don’t have to rush? Knowing there isn’t a deadline and I can work in a spirit of ease and calm?
There’s a liberating force that releases mental obstacles to getting started. Not everyone needs such mindful prep work though! My sister jumps right into organization in a very embodied way which seems to bypass mental and emotional obstacles!
Turn Chaos Into Consecrated Order
Just a reminder that it’s not a small thing to decide to confront the mess and make something beautiful.
By beautiful I mean bringing greater ease to your everyday. I mean creating more space for the new. (And beauty can even come from donating the excess objects, clothing, and collections that may serve others.)
Simplicity from Natural Seagrass & White Shelves
If money were no object, I might choose custom solid wood built-ins for all of my storage needs. And custom fabric draperies to soften the look and hide messier areas. But like a lot of folks, I live with modular shelving units and white wire shelves in closets.
It can be cost effective, functional, and lovely to warm them up with woven baskets. I find the secret is sticking to just one or two different basket styles. This is a calmer look, and who doesn’t crava a calmer closet?
Measure your shelves to be sure to buy the proper size baskets. If you find a particular style you love, make sure to buy enough since uniformity is the goal and that exact style may not be available later. Here are some of the ingredients I combined in 2023 when we tackled our bedroom’s walk-in closet:
Turn a Little Used Room or Spare Bedroom into a Family Closet
One of the first renovation projects we tackled in our current Georgian home was turning a small awkward bedroom into a dressing room/office space for me. The full story is HERE.
With closet modules, we were able to add organization and storage while leaving enough space: for a bed, for a vanity area, and for a work area.
I didn’t want this room to lose its identity as a bedroom for future owners and for resale. (The room even has an existing closet with bifold doors and a linen closet you can’t see in photos!)
What a transformation of function and design, and what a testament to how a quirky space can become helpful flex space for a variety of uses.
Don’t overlook a strange under-utilized space in your own house as a “family closet” or “cloffice.”
Closet & Bedroom Organization Resources
If you’re not the DIY type or not even interested in closet modules like ours, there are plenty of readymade pieces to consider. Maybe what you require is a few more drawers in a bedroom:
Isn’t that a lovely piece that looks antique?
Psst. Need an idea for a similar linen skirted armchair perfect for a dressing room, walk-in closet or bedroom space? This one has a surprisingly competitive price point:
If you have a walk-in closet that has space (or potential for space if you remove a section of wire shelving) would a dresser and mirror help it feel and function like a dressing room?
While this dresser may not be appropriate for a grownup bedroom, it might work well in a dressing room or family closet or even a craft room to organize the stuff of life.
Organization for Utility Rooms & Garage Storage
Linen Closet Organization & Clothing Storage
Should these baskets be in stock, snag them since they sell out all the time!
Under Cabinet Storage
Bedroom Closet Organization
Vertical Space to for a Coat Closet Transformation
Linen Closet Organization Goodness
Creative Shoe Storage
Slow & Steady Progress
I’m so done with saving the world in a day and all the striving to WIN across areas of my life. That mode is too costly and requires too much adrenaline, thank you. Steady and small gestures will do.
Short bursts still lead to completion and the joy of more order.
Organization Inspiration
Sweet Organization Hacks from Homebodies
Actionable & Practical Ideas from Luxurious Dream Closets
When clothes get mindfully hung with like colors together…oh, my! Also, aren’t the picture lights clever if you will be renovating or building new?
Call me compulsive, but a sea of white can be a glorious sight…
As if a peninsula counter in a shop-like closet wasn’t remarkable enough, isn’t the color combination beyond too?
Just in case you were aggravated there were no realistic organization hacks for the non-wealthy:
Of course I have to return to the Giannettis’ brilliant storage solution in their Patina Farm bedroom’s dressing area. Belgian linen panels hang from unlacquered brass rings and rods. Who needs clunky closet doors when you can have silent softness?
In the dressing room of our French country house, I covered the wall with a gorgeous stenciled Fortuny pattern, and it only took a couple of hours. Best of all, I never tired of the look. I found the stencil HERE.
If you have a spacious closet or dressing room, I can imagine a table like this surrounded by readymade white modular shelves and hanging storage.
Love WATCHING Other People Organize?
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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