A Closet Design For Every Purpose

If you’re tired of the way your closet looks, it’s time to consider your closet design, or lack thereof. Closets of all types are magnets for disorganization, and adapting a new closet design can help eliminate the clutter. You can even build your own closets and pick your own closet design in a laundry room or on a bare wall, as this article will explain.

If you fold and hang laundry while you’re in the laundry room, Home Depot sells many items that will make this task easier for you and your family. One option is the Configurations by Rubbermaid, which is essentially a custom closet in a box. Configurations is a low-hassle, easy assembly closet design that fits closets between 4 ft and 8 ft wide.

If your laundry room has a solid wall that is this size, it could easily be installed in your laundry room to give you a place to hang and sort your laundry. Instantly, you will have 10 feet of hanging space and 14 feet of stacking space right in your laundry room.

For a unique closet design in your bedroom, Home Depot also carries a large line of ClosetMaid items. A popular item is the 8-in-1 closet organizer, which fits closets between 5 feet and 8 feet. The organizer can be assembled in 8 different configurations and offers ample shelving space as well as closet rod space. Depending on what you need from a closet design, the 8-in-1 organizer is guaranteed to give you more closet space and make your entire closet system more efficient.

If you are cramped for space in your linen closet, Home Depot’s ClosetMaid line also includes storage items such as the 10-runner drawer kit. This item is portable, making it ideal for extra towel storage.

Drawer kits are also great for a child’s closet design, as they are ventilated and easy to access. Another idea for your linen closet design is ClosetMaid’s 3.5 ft Closet Wall Stack Organizer. This item takes up a very small amount of space and works well for folded articles, such as towels.

Home Depot’s ClosetMaid 6-pocket canvas Garment Organizer is a great way to hang up folded items. This closet design solution can be used in any type of closet, but is particularly useful in bedroom closets. The Garment Organizer hangs on the closet rod and has drop-down storage cubicles, perfect for undergarments, accessories, hats, or anything foldable.

If you’re come to the conclusion that the only way you’re going to have a successful closet design is to eliminate some of your items, think about purchasing a Shelftrack?

4-Shelf Organizer. Only 4-feet long, this attractive item looks great in any part of your house, not just as part of a closet design. It is ideal for storing those photographs, knick-knacks, and everything else that you have shoved into the back of your closets and forgotten about. This versatile item is easy to install and easy to rearrange, making it a must-have purchase during your closet design agenda.

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A Walk-in Closet Of Your Very Own

What girl does not dream of having her very own walk-in closet? A room where she can be surrounded by all the things she loves: clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories. It is a bit of heaven on earth. While most dismiss the thought of having their very own walk-in wardrobe as an extravagance that they could live without, walk-in closets may be practical, affordable and easy to set up in reality.

Setting up a walk-in closet requires a lot of patience and requires minimal technical skills. In fact, the most important skill you would need in setting up your own walk-in closet is your measuring skills. The first thing you need to do in setting up your walk-in closet is not necessarily measuring the area where you want to set up your walk-in closet.

The first thing you have to do is make an inventory of all you clothes, shoes and accessories. This will give you a good idea of the size of your shelves, the length of your clothes rack, and the amount of space that would sufficiently house your closet. Only after doing this can you start measuring the area for your closet. After getting the dimensions of your walk-in closet, you can draw a layout of how you want your closet to be.

Once you have a good idea of what you want your closet to look like, shop around for closet components or systems that suits your aesthetic taste and your budget. You can go as high end as wood components or closet systems or as cheap as wire mesh components or closet systems.

All types of closet components or systems in the market today work fairly well differing only on the look and feel of the material. Just bear in mind that they have basically the same function. You can install the closet components or closet systems yourself to cut back on costs. Most, if not all, closet systems and components come with easy-to-follow installation guides or manuals.

After setting up your closet system or components, you can install other furniture or fixtures that would make your walk-in closet look its best. You can paint your favorite shade on your closet components or system, as well as the closet's walls. You can also replace existing lighting with halogen or incandescent lamps that tend to flatter your skin tone.

You may even want to think about setting up a full-length mirror or a vanity in one area of your walk-in closet. An ottoman in the closet is also a good idea. It serves as additional seating space and doubles as a place where you can lay out your clothes. If you really want to pamper yourself, you can add an area rug or fill the entire space with wall-to-wall carpeting.

Don't forget about storage. There are many storage containers to choose from. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and materials. These storage containers are very important items to have in your walk-in closet because they keep clutter at bay. They make everything easy to organize and store.

The next time you find yourself dreaming about your very own walk-in closet, take action and build it. It is easier than you think.

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Too Many Decades In One Closet

I consider spring clean up season, a part of my new year resolution to organize my life. Today my chore is cleaning up my image, well at least facing my closet head on.

After a strong cup of coffee I open the louver doors of my walk-in closet with a sense of ceremony that turns quickly into a sense of hopelessness. My closet is a mish mash of this and that, pieces of color and texture so different from one another yet each piece in its time an exciting treasure. Each garment is an individual find for its array of colorful attributes, comforting stylish textures and dynamic details. All acquired without regard to necessarily combining in anyway.

I am about to make a stab at cleaning up while facing up to a new era of myself as a mature woman. So many possibilities of transformation and one realization . . . that a new time of my life is upon me, a simple time, less formal, more carefree, with a shifting, changing figure and an altering image of myself.

I am in a new era of liberation completely over the idea of being a slave to trends. But still acknowledging trends set by a youthful standard, with an appreciative nod and maybe a purchase, thereby avoiding that dreaded look of an aging dowdy matron, which is so not me.

Looking back at each era gone by, I see a distinct image of myself struggling to keep pace with the fashion world. First it was all about looking great to feel good, often working against my profile and happily sometimes very in tune to what statement I was attempting to make within the fashion structure of the time. In the beginning, clothes could be fitted like a glove on my young, vibrant in-shape body, while diaphanous fabrics making a very decorative statement exploiting my sexuality. Clothing was my identity. Next, it was about preoccupation with fashion itself, spending more money when there was precious little to spare, fueled by ambitious desire and very little logic.

Dreaming of a retrospective of my personal world of fashion sends me into peals of uncontrollable laughter.

In approaching this chore of cleaning up the clutter of my closet there will be no room for sentimentality. Sorting through the past trends that once represented me, modern, artsy, bohemian, provocative, freewheeling, outrageous, elegant and sometimes classic; they are all happening here in my walk in.

Pragmatically, I gather colors together and separate by type. After some time it appears that, well, things are sort of sorting out, but ‘ugh’ this is not to be an easy task of dispensing clothes. I remember wearing this geometric wool patched comme des garcon skirt at some fun art openings with my black enigmatic puzzle sweater by Ann Demeulemeester , and wow this magical silk Shanghai Tang jacket always made me feel exotic and alluring.

I need to assert my sense of new self and envision what that means to me.

Following my instincts…out with all patterns…with of course, an occasional exception.

Anything over 2 years old and definitely everything that hasn’t been worn in the last two years. Out with the pouf. They are just taking up space and I know of some charitable groups, like Dress For Success that gladly accept a generous donation.

My new look should define the changing me; confident, sophisticated, smart, calm, comfortable, relaxed, organized and uncluttered with my sense of femininity. Paring down what I do have to basic colors, and a narrow focused collection that is void of unnecessary detail yet retaining a style and functional design with inspired elegance, changed only by the seasons.

I adore the movement of fabric, movement with free reign, fabrics hold such chance for elegance along with comfort and style.

And keeping alive a bit of free-wheeling love of adventure by taking fashion risks with a touch of subtle ethnic.

After the morning spent reminiscing about my clothes and their relationship to my life, reality nudges my illusions and hope of some form of transformation stays aloof.

Thank my lucky stars for friends, in this instance, a friend, who brought me a divine lunch and a fascinating book, “Nothing to Wear?: A Five Step Cure for the Common Closet” by Joe Lupo & Jesse Garza

I think I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon curled up in my reading chair.

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Closet Doors

The closet is a must have for any home to provide that extra storage space. In addition to giving you more space to store things, the closet also makes a good addition to the overall décor of a room. Closets nowadays come in many shapes and sizes. The closet organizer system opens a whole new world of possibilities in organizing storage.

To start off with, unless you purposely do not want one, all closets have doors. The function of the closet door is twofold. The first function of a closet door is to keep your belongings inside an enclosed space, hidden from view.

A closed closet door will give a sense of organization in a room. The second of a closet door is to act as part of the overall decoration of a room. Since the front of a closet is mainly made up of the doors, choosing the right look for your closet door can do wonders for your room.

If space is tight in the room, than the folding closet door would be a good way to go. You will have access to all the space I your closet without having to make room in front of the closet for the doors to swing open. A good set of folding closet doors would come with a set of door rails that allows smooth movement of the folding closet doors.

You can attach a lighting system to the folding closet doors so that the lights inside the closet will come on when you fold open the doors.

To have the closet be part of the room accessory, siding closet doors could be fitted. You would need to reach a bit to get to the items on the sides of the closet but the sliding effect of the closet doors gives the room a sophisticated look.

If you are blessed with a huge room, then you can have the sliding closet doors slide into the wall to open up all the closet space. You could even motorize he doors and open them by remote control.

If you don’t have a huge room, the closet doors can be of help. Install closet doors with mirrors and the mirroring effect will give you a sense of space. You can install mirrors in any kind of closet door. You can choose between half length mirrors or full length mirrors to achieve your desired outcome.

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