Your Closet & Wardrobe Management

[Elaina]

lol lol lol lol lol

I wish, but I have all my sewing stuff in here with my computer, so something would have to go and I do gotta sleep sometime.

ETA: by the time you include wall-to-wall furniture, pattern storage, lingerie chest and a dresser, chess table, queen sized bed and a shelf FOR fabric, then add in the ironing board, night stand, depression night stand for sewing junk, a bookcase and an old kitchen table/chair, I made do with what I have. The room is only 12x12 as it is.

 

[hailey greenhat]

you could always give some of that fabric to me

 

[hailey greenhat]

thank you cici! lol i've had some very eccentric benefactors over the years and i'd love to see what that gray wooly 3/4 sleeved garment is hanging in yours, i love woolen items
plus omg your shoes!:cool2:

 

[Elaina]

you could always give some of that fabric to me

Haha! Most of it's been gifted to me! I try and treat the fabric as I would a finished garment, which is why it's all over the place, and my utility shelves (which I have most of it on) is slowly getting crowded by other things like boning, pattern boxes, clothes hanging in the way...

 

[SayCici]

thank you cici! lol i've had some very eccentric benefactors over the years and i'd love to see what that gray wooly 3/4 sleeved garment is hanging in yours, i love woolen items
plus omg your shoes!:cool2:

I *think* you mean this:

But it's not woolen! Hopefully my shoe collection will be improving soon, I only have 1 or 2 vintage pairs.

 

[hailey greenhat]

thats the one! That is without a doubt one of the most lovely dresses i've ever seen. lol it looks tweed to me which made me type wool more than once though its probably just the pattern?

 

[Lady Day]

A friend of mine called me the Queen of pre-fab. Hey, living in box sized apartments, with obscene amounts of clothing/fabric makes you utilize every iota of space. I try to go for a vintage/minimal/slightly industrial look with home.

These are the industrial shelving units you can customize. I LOVE them and they make great closets. The left is my dresses, the right my tops. I made the black covers out of denim to give it a cleaner look.

The closet below is the one that came with the apartment Its got that sliding door thing, so only one side is ever open at a time. I use it for my undergarments, jewelry (those black metal drawers) and using a shelf inside, my knitwear and some storage of coats.

LD

 

[SayCici]

Oooh, what's in the red boxes?

 

[Lady Day]

Fabric remnants.

LD

 

[hailey greenhat]

lol thats what i wanted to know!
LD i adore your little lamp on the shelf in your closet its so cute and helpful

 

[Lorena B]

I dont separate Summer from Winter, but what i do is separate are the coats from the rest of clothing.

Shoes go ( the ones i can fit) inside my closet and the ones that cant, generally end up in a couple of shelves in the office room.
I do have a trunk where i put some of my thickest bits like coats and stoles.
Hat generally are in a big round box on top of the closet with head scarfs and gloves.
Underwear and tops go to the chest of drawers with exception of robes and nighties that, i usually keep hanged in the closet.

I would like to mention that the trunk is a great way of storage clothing or even bed spreads, for me, has worked wonderfully helping me to make space in the wardrobe.

 

[Elaina]

Shoes and purses hang off the back of my door like this one. Mine holds 21 pairs, and I slip the matching purse on one of them and move it behind the rack/between the door, drape matching belts over them. It's not pretty, but it is organized.

I also have an adjustable chrome floor rack. That typically has shoes I wear more often, and the purses for those hang on one of the things on the door.

While my clothing is hung up all over the place, it is separated into casual clothing, afternoon clothing/dressier clothes and after 5 clothing. If I wear it, I hang it up, and always have, barring clothing I won't wear out of the house (gardening, yard work, etc.) which tend to get tossed into one drawer. I don't care for folding since I have to iron it if it is. I do, however, store winter/summer items depending on the season in the pantry that is where I'm supposed to have a closet. Since it's big enough for food, a freezer and my clothing in a ginormous suitcase and a few garment bags, I don't have to worry too much about that. I don't own a coat (I didn't need one until I moved to TN) but I need to make one, which will go into the pantry when I don't wear it, simply because I have no place to put it.

My aprons are in the kitchen, natch. There's a hat rack when I wash and iron them, they all go hang on. I can pick and choose that way, they're clean when they're on it, and the "used" one or dirty one gets tossed to the back of the chair when I'm not in it, until the evening when it gets put into the laundry basket.

Eventually, I want an actual closet and wardrobe as well as a room that I don't sleep in for sewing, which will help with my clothing storage immensely, as well as being able to keep my shoe collection a little less cluttered looking in my room.

 

[C-dot]

My closet and drawers are arranged in a tidy manner. Heaven help those who mess it up.

 

[swingkitten85]

Haha, oh no! What about getting one of these:

Just a word of warning about these types that can be adjusted in height and are partially plastic: if you overload them, they collapse quite easily! Trust me, I know. haha!

I'm really enjoying this thread and reading about and seeing how everyone stores their clothing and such. I don't have anything spectacular right now as I'm sharing a closet with my husband (he's military and has a million and one different uniforms and various accessories he has to store in there). The only saving grace is that I snagged two of those plastic drawer bins and stacked them on top of each other in the closet. That works as my temporary chest of drawers right now. Until I find something more sturdy and suitable in the future. Otherwise, everything is packed in on my side and shoes stacked on boxes! I really need to get the clutter under control... lol!

 

[Paisley]

The rack shown above should have a bar attached corner to corner to make it more stable.

 

[vampygirl13]

I'm a total clutterbug. My husband's closet is perfect-everything organized so nicely.

I don't have enough space for everything on one place, so it's sort of scattered. I have skirts, pants, tops and sweaters and shoes in one big closet in my boudior (spare room with my vanity and clothing) and our computer room closet has all of my dresses.

I have dressers in my room and our bedroom with stuff and it's just not organized. I've been looking for a nice low dresser or shelf to put baskets in for my folded tops and sweaters but haven't found anything yet.

Maybe I'll have DH put in a 2nd rack on one side of my closet for more room?

 

[Vintage Betty]

You really don't want to know. It's incredibly scary how I store my stuff. :eusa_doh:

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Tiny bedroom = perfect dressing room

I have a tiny 2 bedroom house....close to 1,000 square feet, give or take of living space. The second bedroom is very small so it became my walk in closet/dressing room. When you live alone and have no children you can do crazy things like that!!! It works very well for me and it's like having a master suite.

 

[Elaina]

MaryDeluxe I have a girlfriend that did exactly this when she and her husband divorced, and I always thought it was a great idea! She even has the shelves like that, and also stores her fabric in it.

 

[LelaViavonie]

I have a tiny 2 bedroom house....close to 1,000 square feet, give or take of living space. The second bedroom is very small so it became my walk in closet/dressing room. When you live alone and have no children you can do crazy things like that!!! It works very well for me and it's like having a master suite.

I need to pick my jaw up off the floor...
BEAUTIFUL!