[How To Organize] Closets: 5 Tips from an Organized Kid [Inspiration]

Kids need organized closets, too!  This is a great example from one of my "obsession" websites, "House of Turquoise." This kid's closet uses GREAT organizing ideas that the grownups can use too! Check out these tips below.

Tip #1: Who Says Closets Need Doors?

If you are hurting for some bedroom real estate, take off the doors!  Other replace them with a finely tailored curtain.  The curtain rod can be hidden behind the closet opening or featured above the frame out front.  This kid's closet replaces the doors with a subtle yet colorful garland up top, almost like a window valance. 

Tip #2: Open Closet or Not? Keep It Beautiful.

Whether you keep your closet open or not, why not make it as beautiful as a featured display shelf in your living room?  

Take a cue from this organized kid closet, curate some of your open shelves for things you love up top and fun things you'd use at eye and hand level.  Get handsome containers like these gorgeous fabric-lined wicker baskets. Why not paint your closet walls! It's always a beautiful and inexpensive way to transform a space.

Tip #3: Keep Stuff OFF The Floors

It's clear kids in this room will enjoy the additional play space, but that's a great cue for grownup closets.  

Take a tip from supermarket shelf strategist who stock items they want to sell at eye level.  Grownups are not as likely to look down or up on a regular basis so keep your everyday and most used items on shelves and hanging rods at your chest and eye-levels.  

Stuff that gets on the closet floors tend to STAY on closet floors. They also have this strange way of attracting other STUFF. If you must, fill that space with a great inexpensive and simple drawer or cubbie unit if you'd like more storage space.

Tip #4: Go Vertical!

Most closets have ample dead space above the highest closet shelf.  Add another one! 

Even if it requires a quick trip to your local hardware store, simple shelving wood and brackets are so inexpensive for the added real estate you get by going upwards.  Get some handy baskets that breathe and put away your out of season clothing towards the top of your closets.

Tip #5: Shop Your Own Closet!

Give hanging clothes breathing room. Edit! Edit! Purge! Purge! Achieving that "boutique" look may be tough for most grownups, but it doesn't mean we can't afford to spend some time to "shop our closet."

Choose only the things that you would buy for yourself NOW.  That's a great strategy for editing your closet for a nice purge.  This creates a "quality over quantity" closet that will be more likely to be used.