When you are in a rush to get ready, the last thing that you want is a cluttered closet to slow you down. If you can never find the clothes you’re looking for without a stressful rummage, it’s time to organize your closet. In this article, we’re exploring some practical ways to rehaul your wardrobe and learn some new closet reorganization methods.
Getting started with re-organizing your closet
The best way to handle the messy closet situation and reclaim all time lost having to sift through a cluttered wardrobe is to re-organize it or consider a walk-in closet installation. Having a well-organized bedroom closet can transform your daily routine from a stressful experience to a delightful one. You won’t lose time having to sift through clutter and will be able to find the clothing, shoes and accessories you want at a glance. Decluttering your closet will not only help maximise your space – it can also help declutter your mind.
Getting your closet properly organised may take some time, especially depending on how many items you own, so we recommend setting aside a day to go through your wardrobe and follow these steps.
Take everything out
The first step to organizing your closet is to make things worse before they get better. Take everything out of your wardrobe and place it all in your room, sort out everything as you go, or alternatively wait until the closet is empty. You will need to sort through your items into certain categories; for example, items to discard, to keep, and to donate.
During this sorting-out phase, you will need to be as honest as possible and truly ask yourself whether you will wear the item within the next 6 months, whether the item fits you, and if it is time to let it go. This process will allow you to free up some much-needed space in your wardrobe and therefore make it easier to organize.
Sort through your items
Now that your closet is empty and you have done some sorting and hopefully emptied some items that you no longer wear or no longer fit. We suggest sorting your items into piles based on the following criteria:
- Love it – you wear it faithfully and love how it looks on you.
- Hate It – you never wear it as it doesn’t fit you or you bought it at a good price.
- Like it – you wear it fairly often and it is often a key player in some of your outfits.
- Undecided – this is a pile of things that you want to get rid of but are holding on to them because they were either gifts or expensive purchases.
When you’re finished this stage, bag up the donated pieces and throw away the pieces that you want to get rid of. Clearing your space and moving these items will give you more space to spread out and organize your love and like piles and allow you to create systems for organizing your closet.
How to re-organize your closet
The next step is to put the items that you are keeping back in your closet. This is the time to use the blank slate to try a new way to organize your closet, and therefore optimize your time to get ready. There are different ways in which you can organize your wardrobe so you can find what you need on any given day more efficiently.
If space is at a premium, consider swapping bulky clothes hangers for slimline versions – this can save considerably hanging space.
Organize your wardrobe by occasion
You can organize your wardrobe based on the types of clothes, shoes, and accessories that you have. You can create sections of your closet to make getting ready by occasion easier, this can be done by separating these pieces which will enable you to have a better idea of what items you have, and how many, according to the occasion.
Organizing by occasion will depend on the clothes that you own and the events that you attend, however in general you could arrange your closet by:
- Work
- Weekend / casual wear
- Workout / exercise clothes
- Formal
Organize by season
You can sort and organize your closet by the seasons that you would wear those items in, hang clothes for the current season in an accessible spot, and rotate your pieces as the seasons change to keep items that you need accessible. It will make dressing for a certain season easier as you won’t need to sift through winter and summer clothes to find pieces to wear that are suitable for your current season.
Organize by colour
If you like to coordinate your clothing, organising the garments you own according to colour can work well. At a glance you’ll be able to clearly see all your neutral, red, black or blue pieces. It can make it easier to pick out pieces that match and will make your wardrobe look colourful when you open up the door.
Organize by type of clothes
Another useful option for organising your closet is to sort your items by the type of clothes. So you could hang all your tops, dresses, trousers or skirts together. It could make it easier to find the pieces you want and can streamline the look of your wardrobe.
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