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Your closet
I'm on the verge of re-doing my closet. I can't live like this and I'm trying to find a solution to the madness because next month, I can re-do it.
My issue: my shoes and my workout clothes need a place to call home.
How my closet looks: two shelves up high, one I have to have to step ladder to get to and the other one I can reach stuff in the front. Then one bar under that. Floor empty.
My solutions so far: 1) leave closet as is but get a dresser to go underneath the bar. But I still have the shoes issue...which I could make a closet in another room a shoe closet. If I do that, then I have to admit that I have 5 closets instead of 4. 2) re-do the closet with no shelves, two bars and a shoe organizer underneath. 3) see if I can leave the top shelf up there and put the comforter set during the summer months, then two bars and a shoe organizer underneath. 4) get a whole new organizer built in thing with different bars and some shelves with shoe organizer on the bottom.
Have any better ideas? Tell me how your closet(s) is/are? I want it fixed so I don't have to mess with it again, but at the same time, I need to take into account spending the most bang for the buck.
Re: Your closet
Ours is a walk-in with the back wall being the longest. The left and right side are the same length, but the right side doesn't have floor space since it's over the stairs. That side is DH's and just has 1 shelf and 1 bar. He keeps most of his clothes in his dresser.
My back wall has 2 shelves and 2 bars. It's shelf, bar, shelf, bar. I have to use a shorty stool to get to the top shelf so I usually put out-of-season items there. The top bar holds all of my shirts and the bottom bar (about waist level) has skirts and pants that can fold over. That shelf has most of my folded clothes.
My left wall only has 1 shelf and 1 bar, both up high. I can use that bar for my longer clothes that won't hang top and bottom, dresses, long dress pants, etc. It also has my shoe rack on the floor, which takes up about half the floor/wall space on that side.
It sounds like you need the room but I think it's a pain to have my clothes spread out in different closets, so maybe option 3 or 4? The shelves/bars I bought were the white wire ones from Home Depot or Lowes so they weren't too expensive and have lasted forever.
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We have double closets in our master bedroom. Mine has a shelf on top, a bar, then a half bar on the left side. The top shelf in where I keep sweaters, sweatshirts, purses, and a few shoe boxes. The top bar has shirts on the left and dresses on the right. The half bar on the bottom is where I keep skirts and pants. To the right of the half bar is a large plastic double drawer thingy that I keep workout clothes, bathing suits and cover ups, and PJs in. On top of the shelves I keep shoes in boxes stacked up, then to the left of the drawers (under the half bar) I have a shoe holder where I put my shoes that dont have boxes. I wish I had a bigger closet cause I feel like its stuffed. We keep out of season items in the cedar closet in our basement. This is a picture of my closet:
And holy crap TN makes inserting photos really difficult!
My suggestion would probably be to just buy a cheap dresser off CL and put it in the closet. I like stuff like that in drawers. As for your shoes you could get something like this: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz=1C1GPEA_enUS314US315&q=hanging+shoe+holder&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=11511446200428799957&sa=X&ei=qkcvTp6mKo-00AGPkLnQAQ&ved=0CHcQ8wIwAA
I have one and it works really well. Matt is a shoe WHORE!!! Seriously he has like 3x as many shoes as I do. So I had to find someplace to put my shoes. Oh and not to mention he has like 75%of the closet space. *shakes head* He also is a clothes WHORE!
Okay rant over! HAH!
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We have awful, tiny closets and I have like seriously 2 huge garbage bags full of work out clothes. They tend to end up on the floor of said tiny closet, I really can't wait to get a house with bigger closets!
Until then, my closet will always be packed and messy!
Our closet is tiny, too. And it's a mess. No picture will be shown......but how did you PIP, Michaela?!
We moved from an apartment with a huge closet, to one with the tiniest closet! I've never quite adjusted and got it all organized. It's hopeless. I have been feeling the urge to do so, though!
Thanks for the help girls! I think I'm going to do like what Micheala showed. I'll figure out what to do for my shoes. It may just work out of us to do like what Kelly showed in a whole closet for both DH and I because it's a seriously shoe whore as well.
And yes, Micheala, how did you get it do it a picture?!? I've been trying to figure it out for a while.
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