Simple Storage Ideas for Better Closets
Storage inside the closet: shelves and rods, the top shelf, bins and baskets, labels that stay readable, and where out-of-season clothing can go.
5 guides published
Store off-season clothes so they come back out in good condition: clean and dry them, fold knits and hang structured coats, pick a suitable container and keep it somewhere cool, dry and dark.
Labels tell everyone, including you in three months, where things go back. Follow seven steps to name, place and review labels on bins, shelf edges and hanging sections, with a comparison of label types.
Bins are the last step of organizing a closet, not the first. Learn how to measure the shelf, pick a size, and choose between open and lidded, clear and opaque, and five common materials.
The upper closet shelf works when it holds only what you reach rarely and every item sits in a container. Here is what belongs up there, how to choose bins you can lift down, and how to reach them safely.
A plain-words overview of closet hardware: fixed shelves and rods, adjustable systems, freestanding towers, tension rods, hanging fabric shelves and add-on rods, with how to choose and what to measure.
