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One of the few downgrades for me when we moved into our new place is the amount of closet space I have. Even after putting all of my off-season stuff in storage bins under the bed, things are still very cramped in my poor closet. And it sort of defeats the purpose of having a lot of clothes if you can't find them. After our very successful
book color-coding experiment, I decided to apply the same method to my clothes.
First I had to buy all matching hangers- I chose
these wood ones from the container store.
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Then sort everything by color- it's okay to mix pants and jackets and dresses and shirts all together, as long as they are in their proper color section.
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In the end, my closet feels like something out of a catalog (or Domino, above) and I can find everything I'm looking for, although I'm a little disturbed by the size of the brown section (below). I guess my wardrobe is showing its true colors.
2 comments:
Are those wooden hangers as skinny as they look? My experience is that those white (dare I say the word here chez Lil) plastic hangers allow one to fit a few more clothing necessities in the closet until he can have his own.
This is something very few people know about me, but I have been organizing my closet this way since high school. To take it further, within each color section I order the clothing by skirts,shirts,pants,and finally dresses so that visually the shortest garments are first with the longest being last. I guess I just came out of the OCD closet!
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