Closet Trips & Quick Tips

Closet Trips
Are you triping over shoes, clothes, belts, and debris on your closet floors? Well here are a few solutions...
Closet organizers such as shoe organizers, expandable hanging bars (to add another row of hanging space for blouses, shirts, pants, etc), multiple shelf organizer (fabric organizer), storage baskets/boxes, and stackable organizers can be found at big box stores such as ClosetMaid, Target, WalMart, HomeDepot, Lowes etc.

Quick tips:
Great ideas for hanging belts, necklaces, and scarfs:
1. Cork boards: There are varying sizes of cork boards available so find the size that best fits your space (4x3, 2x3, etc can be found easily at your local hobby store). Secure the cork board to an accessible wall in your closet with a wall anchor and screw (use 1 screw for small cork boards and 2 or more for larger cork boards). Then find your favorite color push pins and place them an inch apart horiozontally for the 1st row; you want to begin 1 inch from the edge of the cork board. The second row of push pins will begin 1 1/2 inches from the edge of the cork board, the third row will begin 1 inch from the edge and will alternate this way for any additional rows (you want to do this for space & a uniform look)
2. Tiered pant hangers (they look like regular hangers at the top, but the have several tiers)
These are better used for scarfs and belts, as necklaces are more fragile and tend to tangle. Try to find the tiered pant hangers with moveable or open ended arms for easy removal.

Fun ideas for drawers or storage boxes in your closets:
1. try fun baskets that you may find at your local big box store or at your discount retail stores (they have great things that come in from top brand designers that you can inexpensively)
2. try vintage hat baskets of varying sizes to store things such as hand bags, belts, scarfs, etc.
3. Mesh and wire baskets and boxes if you want a more industrial look
4. Cargo boxes

Visit the following websites for more ideas and products:

http://www.closetmaid.com/en-us/Ideas/Pages/material-preference.aspx

http://www.hgtv.com/closet-organization-tips-ideas/package/index.html