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A Walk In Closet Design
Organizing Your Home Storage Space

This walk in closet design works because the owner's needs and space were assessed in order to achieve a closet organizer system that worked for their specific closet organization and storage needs.

Organizing your home storage spaces is possible using a variety of bedroom closet organizers and even some DIY ingenuity.


This photo journal of a closet make over uses the S-P-A-C-E model outlined on the Organizing Your Home S-P-A-C-E section on this website.

The walk in closet had been in use for 27 years with with only the standard rod and shelf design. It was pretty boring and not very efficient.

In this before picture you can see the original walk in design which was just the ordinary rod and shelf brackets along two walls.

Not very well organized is it!

This closet was a generous size (almost a full 5' by 8') so there was a lot of unused space.

Walk In Closet Design -before

STRIP

Using the S-P-A-C-E model the space was first stripped, then cleaned and painted.

Even the popcorn ceiling was painted for the first time in 27 years!

PURGE

Clothing was then purged and the clothing that remained was sorted.

Walk In Closet re Design 1

YES, you can paint a popcorn type spray on ceiling but because the textured coating is water soluble you have to use an oil based paint.

ASSESS and ANALYZE

Now is the time to make some decisions.

For this closet design there were very few clothing items that required significant vertical space, so the the makeover was started by doubling up on the space for hanging items and creating more open storage for folded items such as sweaters and t-shirts.

Since the space was generous in size and there were a lot of possibilities, graph paper was used to plan the actual placement of the closet organizer system based on the owner's needs.

The owner's list of priorities included:

  • linen storage- the owners wanted to re-purpose an existing double closet that was being used for linens and put all the household linens in this space, so more closet storage space was a must.
  • shoe storage - out of the way and convenient shoe storage was requested. The owners did not have a large shoe inventory.
  • wall mounted drawers for folded clothing
  • ironing board - some recent renovations to the house removed the original ironing storage area and the owners wanted to be able to store the ironing board here in the beroom where it ismost often needed for ironing clothes before they are worn.
  • all season storage - the owners wanted to be able to leave all clothing in this closet year round. There was no storage space available for out of season clothing.

CONTAINERIZE

Do it yourself closet organizer systems were assessed at the local big box store in order to determine what the possibilities were, and where all the elements of the new system would be placed.

This closet design photo journal....continued here



by Beverly OMalley

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