I have been having serious Organising withdrawls. Life as been overwhelmingly busy. Leaving little time for organising projects! But then I remembered I had a project that I hadn’t shared yet! Creating an Organised Wardrobe!
We are very lucky to have a large walk in wardrobe in our Master Bedroom. It has a double door opening, shelves on either side and hanging racks on three sides. It also has a shelf on top of the hanging rack for extra storage right up to the ceiling! Having space is one thing, but sometimes the more space you have the harder it is to keep it all organised. Here is what this little corner of our house looked like before…clean freaks beware, this is a disaster zone!
Trust me it was actually a lot worse than this! This is the after/before photo shot! You know the one when you have started the job and then realised you should have taken a before photo! First things first. I always start with a plan.
STEP 1. The Culling and Sorting. The first phase of this project was the sorting, culling, sending off to charity. I was ruthless. Hence all those coat hangers on the floor and the random piles. I was lucky that I had already completed this part of the project, because it was big! You can read PART ONE of this adventure HERE.
STEP 2. The Folding. Second step was to tackle the clothes that are folded in the wardrobe. This actually meant….
Sorting into piles and refolding all the clothes (using my FlipFold of course!)
Place the newly folded piles onto the shelves and then of course….
STEP 3. The Labelling. Make some labels!
Laminated them, re cut and then attached them to the shelves using…
Self adhesive velcro dots. These are the handiest little product. Why velcro dots? I have used them so that next time I want to reorganise the wardrobe I can just detach and move the labels around!
There they are!
We have TOP SHELF: Sleeveless, Short Sleeved, Long Sleeved Shirts
MIDDLE SHELF: Jeans and Long Pants
BOTTOM SHELF: Pyjamas and Track Pants
STEP 4. The Smalls. The next thing to tackle was this array of bits and bobs otherwise known as “smalls”! You know the socks, stockings, underwear, swimwear, slips etc?I was already using these fantastic containers from IKEA. They are awesome BUT…this shelf is just at my eye height, I could never see exactly what was in them, they were a mess! I had just given up and had started throwing anything into any container. There was a lot of sorting and culling involved here! How many pairs of stockings can one person need?
Once sorted and cleaner, like the shelves I have attached the labels with velcro dots to the front of each container! Now I know what goes in each one! 
STEP 5. The Hanging. This was a fiddly job, is it wrong to say that I actually enjoyed it? Contrary to popular belief this is my wardrobe AFTER the culling and AFTER I moved some items to our second wardrobe (Heavy jackets, formal gowns etc)
Can anybody say hoarder?
and this is just the tops and dresses! Skirts are in another section! 
This was really just a two fold task. An Organised Wardrobe!
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My wardrobe is a mess at the moment. I’ve let it slide recently. I’ve had to majorly cull what I’ve kept as I have the smallest wardrobe in 10 years in this house, but at least it’s a built-in. It’s on my holiday (next week) to-do list.
A word of warning about wooden hangers. Yes they look lovely, BUT they take up alot of room. I have them and switched alot of stuff to the ultra-slim flock-covered ones (which I’m unhappy with because they are flimsy and break easily) just so I could fit my clothes into the wardrobe I have. I use the wardrobe in the study as my overflow.
Your wardrobe looks fabulous and I’d love to have one that size again, but it will never happen.
I used to have an organising service and one great tip to keep flimsy or strappy items on the hangers, is to wrap elastic bands around the ends – perfect – clothing is protected and doesn’t end up on the floor or tangled
Great job Larissa! My wardrobe is atrocious at the moment…just waiting for the wardrobe man to come and fit it out properly. When we built the house, the wardrobe only had a hanging rail, nothing else! Must have been designed by a man. lol.
Looks great, Larissa! I use those black coat hangers too.
I have wardrobe envy!!!!! The only similarity between your wardrobe and mine at the moment is the lack of our husband’s clothes in it!
My wardrobe WOULD be organised if my husband would just put the clothes away in the right spots!! And by that I mean, yes he does do washing/drying/folding/etc and is actually anal about his wardrobe part too, but just NEVER. PUTS. MINE. AWAY. PROPERLY! (can you tell I’m just a little frustrated, lol?!)
Wow! Super organised now! I need to re-organise mine as well. I normally do that once every 6 months just to see what I need to cull.
Oh I am so jealous of your wardrobe! and the amount of clothes in it! I love your little boxes with labels, totally eliminates the need for a chest of drawers. Hopefully it makes dressing easier for you!
WOW! You have been busy! Such a great post, I get all crazy excited to see you using a flip and fold and those labels are super awesome!
Congrats on a job well done! You should be so so proud!
xoxo,
Jen
Well done Larissa, it looks AMAZING. I wish I only had as few clothes as you (even after culling I have 3 wardrobes still excluding my wardobe just for shoes!) plus a nice big robe like you! I am working through mine at the moment trying to downsize again.
Beautifully organised Larissa. My solution to keeping an organised wardrobe is not to have too many clothes. I’ve got no where near as many clothes as you (major clothes envy happening here).
Anne xx