- GET ON BOARD WITH FOLDING.
These tools will help you find charm in the chores:
Use a clipboard as a folding board, and hang it inside
the closet for easy access. When your sweaters
are uniformly folded, they look neater and take up
less room on the shelves. And give a lint brush
an easy upgrade with trimmed-to-fit metallic paper.
Aluminum clipboard, by Saunders, $9.50, staples.com.
Scotch lint roller, by 3M, $4 for 70 sheets, target.com.
- DON’T SQUANDER YOUR SPACE.
The area above the closet rod is great real estate—
but not readily accessible. Use a set of attractive
lidded bins or boxes to store off-season items or
other things you don’t use every day, to help keep
them neat and dust-free.
Canvas milk crates, by Room Essentials, in Ombre Gray,
$10 each; and Huggable hangers, by Joy Mangano, $20
for 34 pieces, target.com. Brass metal bookplates (similar
to shown), by Kaisercraft, $8 for 6, scrapbook.com. - GATHER AND CONTAIN YOUR TOUCH-UP TOOLS.
Round up all your clotheskeeping necessities—
sewing kit, sweater combs, shoe polishes—in one
place, either a box or a basket, and place it in
or near your closet. The more accessible they are,
the more likely you are to sew, shine, and spiff
up your clothes.
Montauk rectangular bin, in Medium White, $20,
containerstore.com. Lacquer medium box, $145,
mgbwhome.com. - PLAN FOR TOMORROW.
Your get-ready routine will feel much smoother
when your outfit has been planned the night before.
Create a dedicated space for it with an attractive
hook and hanger. We chose a brass knob and
a copper hanger to complement the pastel-and-
gold palette of this closet.
Circlet hook, in Marble, $48, anthropologie.com.
Copper hangers, $20 for 5, shopanthom.com. - LET THERE BE LIGHT—AND MAKE IT BRIGHT.
Lighting is critical when it comes to closets, since
most are windowless. “Ideally, you want a light
source overhead that doesn’t cast shadows and is
bright enough that you can tell your navies from
your blacks,” says home editor Lorna Aragon. She
suggests a globe or drum pendant ceiling light.
Champagne Elegance ceiling light, $294, shadesof
light.com. - FEATURE A SLIDE SHOW OF ACCESSORIES.
Here’s a space-saving way to store scarves, sun-
glasses, and more: On a side wall in your closet,
mount a slide-out board with bars for hanging acces-
sories. To make this one, we screwed two towel
racks onto a 20-by-24-inch painted wooden board,
then installed two drawer slides to affix it to the wall.
Brass towel hanger, by Futagami, from $85, nalatanalata
.com. Accuride drawer slides, by Richelieu Hardware,
$29 a pair, homedepot.com.
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