Organizing Closets and the Mudroom

Organizing Closets and the Mudroom

Keeping your Closets Tidy

No house has enough closet space for everything you need to store, everybody collects junk and never seems to get rid of it. This means that we all tend to have closets almost at bursting point! The first thing you should do is tidy your closets out, decide what you don’t want to keep. If it’s worth selling then sell it, otherwise throw it away.

Don’t go over the top, make sure you just concentrate on one closet at a time. Clear out the closet so that it’s empty, then start putting things back. Make a list of everything you have and work out where it will permanently live. You should locate these things into closets so that they are easy to hand.

You should then take a look at the different storage options that are around, work out which options would work well in your case. You could use a shelf fixed to the wall, or a moveable shelf. You may find out that plastic boxes are very useful to help organize your closet.

The mudroom gets a lot of use every day, lots of people in the house will walk through here. It’s quite normal for mud rooms to be a junk magnet, you may well find all of your winter coats, toys and sports equipment make themselves at home in your mudroom. To help this fit lots of different hooks to help store everything. A boot pad is a great idea to keep your boots out of the way.

Store all of your tools in a rack, you can hang up shovels on the wall which makes them easy to get at, and also keeps them out of the way. You could keep smaller hand tools in a basket which can be carried out to the garden should you need them.

If your mud room is big enough you could create an individual space for each person in your family. This allows them to have a small amount of their own storage space.

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