Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.

With spring around the corner, you decide to do some spring cleaning. You examine all of the closets in your house to find piles and piles of clothes, toys and stuff that had accumulated over time. You pull out everything and spend hours organizing the closet.

But, three months later, the closet looks worse than before you cleaned it. The toys now spill out of the closet and onto the floor and the clothes are in wrinkled heaps.

You're a busy person and don't have time to rip your clothes closet apart to find things that have been buried under piles of clothes. Perhaps your closet lacks organization. How can you take a crammed closet and give it more room free of clutter?

AHA Gives you 4 Easy Steps to Reorganize Your Chronically Cluttered Closet

Step 1: Removal

Get rid of stuff you don't need.

Anything that doesn't contribute to your daily wardrobe must go. Seasonal clothes can be stored in a different closet or in under-the-bed boxes. Donate the surplus items to charities and move out anything you don't use regularly.

Step 2: Sort

Once you've removed everything that doesn't belong in the clothes closet, bring back the things that do.

Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.<

before you cleaned it. The toys now spill out of the closet and onto the floor and the clothes are in wrinkled heaps.

You're a busy person and don't have time to rip your clothes closet apart to find things that have been buried under piles of clothes. Perhaps your closet lacks organization. How can you take a crammed closet and give it more room free of clutter?

AHA Gives you 4 Easy Steps to Reorganize Your Chronically Cluttered Closet

Step 1: Removal

Get rid of stuff you don't need.

Anything that doesn't contribute to your daily wardrobe must go. Seasonal clothes can be stored in a different closet or in under-the-bed boxes. Donate the surplus items to charities and move out anything you don't use regularly.

Step 2: Sort

Once you've removed everything that doesn't belong in the clothes closet, bring back the things that do.

Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.

crammed closet and give it more room free of clutter?

AHA Gives you 4 Easy Steps to Reorganize Your Chronically Cluttered Closet

Step 1: Removal

Get rid of stuff you don't need.

Anything that doesn't contribute to your daily wardrobe must go. Seasonal clothes can be stored in a different closet or in under-the-bed boxes. Donate the surplus items to charities and move out anything you don't use regularly.

Step 2: Sort

Once you've removed everything that doesn't belong in the clothes closet, bring back the things that do.

Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.

clothes can be stored in a different closet or in under-the-bed boxes. Donate the surplus items to charities and move out anything you don't use regularly.

Step 2: Sort

Once you've removed everything that doesn't belong in the clothes closet, bring back the things that do.

Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.

Sort items according to type and color and store them separately using whatever system makes sense to you, dark color to light, earth to pastel, and so on. Remember that pants, shirts, blouses, slacks, socks, stockings should be hung properly.

Step 3: Design

Analyze what you have.

Look at the items that you have left and look at the room left in your closet space. See what organization tools might me helpful. Here are some examples:

• If your closet has a high ceiling consider installing a bar or wardrobe lift that raise and lowers for easy access.
• Install extra shelves and keep a stepladder nearby to reach them.
• Purchase portable or stackable shelving
• Separate shorter hanging items to leave space underneath for shelves.
• Buy shelves and drawer packages, typically made out of ventilated wire or melamine-covered, high-density particleboard planks.
• Take advantage of drawers, mounted wall racks, hanging bags or shelves to store shoes.
• Men's shoes fit best on shelves while women's shoes fit well in shoe bags and racks.
• Clear storage bins work well
• Use hooks, pegs and racks to hang ties, belts and other accessories
• Try browsing through closet organizers in your housewares catalog or local department and home improvement store

Step 4: Maintenance Once you decide where items belong, make an effort to put things away in their designated areas. Remember, getting a larger closet means nothing until you clean house