Hall Closet Heaven
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February 2007 – Is your hall closet jammed with coats, shoes, odds and ends? Is it making it difficult to find what you need? Are you tired of keys, wallets and other items cluttering up your kitchen or entryway table? Try some of my inexpensive tips for organizing the hall closet in your home.
Take advantage of your nine or ten foot ceiling by installing a second shelf in the top of your closet. Prior to choosing the height, plan how you will use the shelf space. Don’t think traditional – think common sense. Decide what you use the most in that area of your home. What do you need accessible and what you want to hide from pain view?
Our closet shelves hold our kitchen tool box, a shoe maintenance basket, diaper bag, purse, and a basket labelled with each family member’s name for their extraneous items; such as wallets, sunglasses, key’s, or mail.
Hint: Shelves may be selected and cut to your measurements at your local home supply and hardware outlet. Installation requires the following tools: Drill, screw driver, hammer, measuring tape, pencil, screws and plugs.
Keep only the coats and shoes that are worn twice or more each week in your entryway closet. When it’s easier to access the coats and shoes you are searching for, the closet is more likely to be kept neat and frustration levels reduced.
Hint: Always keep two or three empty hangers available for guests.
The use of shoe organizers encourages orderly storage of your footwear. Whether a floor model or a handing storage unit best fits your configuration, keep them organized to avoid the frustration looking for that missing shoe.
Hint: Your local home supply or grocery superstore offers multiple options for closet organization. If choosing a floor storage model, ensure you include a waterproof mat to cover the floor of the closet to catch all seasonal footwear melt off.
The key to making your closet organization a success is clear labelling and buy-in from other household occupants. Keep in mind, you will have to offer reminders but before long, everyone will enjoy the new system.
Prior to organizing our entryway closet, we reshuffled, reorganized and searched for shoes and coats on a weekly basis. Post organization project, we haven’t required closet maintenance in months. Yippee!!
Article by Sheri Gammon Dewling
Markham Organizing Maven
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