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Cape with limited closets
I'm a knottie, easing into the nest boards as FI and I are in the process of purchasing our first house!
We're buying a cape with master bedroom and 2 smaller bedrooms on the second floor, with extremely small closets... essentially nonexistant.
Aside from freestanding wardrobes, does anyone have any ideas for "closetless" organizing? (of clothing, linens, etc)
TIA!! 
Re: Cape with limited closets
Congratulations on your first home!
We had the same issue in our first home. I stored the linens/towels under the bed (in those under the bed containers). As for clothes, we had a cedar closet in our basement so each winter/summer I changed over all my clothes. It was a royal pain, but as you can understand, I really didn't have any other options. Good luck!
Welcome and Congrats on the new home. My grandparents had a Cape. When they refinished the upstairs they lined the eaves with a house long closet with three doors into the eaves. As a kid, we could go into the closet in the yellow bedroom and crawl through to closet at the top of the stairs or keep crawling into the closet in the blue bedroom. These closets were short only shirts or folded pants could into them but they provided much needed storage as they raised a family of 6 in a three bedroom cape.
We (luckily) have a linen closet in our cape - so sheets, towels, bath stuff goes in there (along with make-up/deodorant/etc).
We keep winter coats and seasonal shoes in the upstairs (attic, essentially) closet and DH keeps his uniforms for work in our office closet. We share the master bedroom closet, he keeps his dress shirts and suits hung on the top rack and I keep my seasonal clothes on the bottom rack. DH keeps his gun belt and other stuff on the bottom rack shelf and I keep purses on the top rack shelf.
We each have our own dresser, and we rotate clothes out for the seasons (we each have a decent sized box of clothes upstairs). Right now our drawers are overflowing because of how up and down the temps have been!
Depending on your plans for children or guests - I would consider turning one of the rooms into a huge closet. I would really like to do it, but we have one room that's used as an office, and the upstairs is used the guest room (and we have guests frequently) so it's not an option for us
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Thanks for the advice! I'll probably use the smallest bedroom as a closet for the first year or so, but once we have children it will need to be used. We do have small closets in the eaves of each bedroom, and a portable wardrobe that should do the trick for a while.
This is exactly what we did. The previous owners of our home actually removed almost all of the closets and turned them into alcoves. Since we have no children (yet) and very rarely have guests from OOT, we decided to turn the smallest bedroom into a huge walk in closet. We went to Sams and bought 2 closet organizers (@ $130 each, but well worth it) and placed one on each of the side walls to hang our clothes. We also picked up a vanity set BBB and a full length mirror. It is now the perfect dressing room/closet!!! Wroked out better than I could have ever done with a regular closet.
HTH, good luck and congrats on the new house!!!
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Do the upstairs bedrooms have dormers? Mine do. I bought an unfinished dresser and installed it in the wall that has the useless space behind it.
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