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Tips For Designing The Best Custom Closet

16 November 2015

Vanessa Washington

Whether you plan to complete the build on your own or you want to hire someone to do the manual labor for you, it is important to make sure that you have a very clear understanding of what you need to consider when coming up with a design idea. While you certainly need to custom tailor your closet to your specific needs, you may need a little push when it comes to coming up with some ideas. To help you with that, you will want to take a few moments to review the following tips.

Add A Built-In Hamper

Your closest can be a large walk-in with its own little changing area, or it can be a smaller closet that does not have any room to accommodate people entering it. Either way, you might want to consider adding a built-in hamper, as it will never be misplaced or accidentally taken to another room. It will always be in your closet. After all, when pulling clothes out of the closet, you might be pulling clothes off of your body and will need a place to put them right away so that they are available for washing. This will help keep everything in one central location for you.

Don't Forget Space For Accessories

There are two ways to approach this. You can add a bunch of custom jewelry, hair tie, and glove drawers and stands, or you can make things a little easier on yourself. Simply add a few shelves and then place wicker baskets or plastic bins on those shelves. Make sure that you are giving yourself a separate bin or basket for each kind of accessory you might want to store. After all, it would be very easy for your silk scarves to become tangled with your belts. To help keep you organized, you can always mark the outside of the bins with labels so that you do not have to search through each bin before finding what you are in need of. Sure, you can also add a hanging cube unit, but the flexibility of what you can do with the shelves and bins is much more vast.

Install A Wardrobe Pole

This is a simple metal pole that sticks out from the wall of the back of your closet door. While you might like to keep some of your clothing in dresser drawers, you might want to hang your outfit for the next day so that any small existing wrinkles can fall out of it. Sure, you could hang your clothing over a chair, but this puts everything at risk of developing more wrinkles or a fold in the middle of the outfit. The idea is that you will use this pole to hang up your outfit for the next day. This will ensure that you are easily organized for the following day and that your next planned outfit will not get misplaced or wrinkled while you wait to wear it.

With just those few simple ideas in mind, you should have very little problem making sure that your newly designed custom closet is everything that you need for it to be.

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