Do you need to sort out a wardrobe? Help yourself with these useful tips!

Keeping order in a house is a continuous job, but it can be made easier if every available space has been organized in the most efficient way possible from the start. Sometimes, you realize what the best method is to tidy up and divide the space inside the furniture only after having used it for a while, but it is still good to start things on the right foot, and then adjust things as time passes by.

In the case of a wardrobe, it is easy for one to fall into chaos in just a few days: in fact, it is enough that just by putting away clothes in a haphazard way and without some sort of system, that the wardrobe descends into a jumbled, chaotic mess and we end up wasting valuable space and being faced by frustrating disorder.

The first criteria for tidying up the heaps of clothes, is to divide them by category: the macro distinctions are obviously those between garments for the cold and warms seasons, and then by types of clothes. When setting up a wardrobe, it is best to use the bed or a table in order to put all the items on it, and then begin to divide them up. Also get yourself some baskets and boxes: in this way, you will have a clear idea of everything you need to find room for, and you will understand which things you can put on the hangers and which will go onto the shelves or into the drawers.

Especially in the case of walk-in wardrobes and cases where the assortment of clothes and accessories remains in plain sight (open-faced furniture), it is also best to divide the garments by color: the visual impact is more beautiful - so much so that each group of clothes will help to decorate the environment - and it will also be easier to assemble the look you want every day.

Make the most of all the available space: if necessary, use any accessories needed to fill up the available surfaces and cavities. They can be storage pockets to hang inside the doors (for shoes, for example), which work well for loose, single items and various other accessories. Consider also using rails, hooks and similar.

You can hang more things on the same garment rail by creating "clusters" of hangers, or using hangers that have particular shapes in order to hang up scarves, ties, belts, cravats.

If you notice that there is space above the rail where clothes are hung from, equip it with some extra shelves: you will help to tidy up without stacking anything, and they will be easier to search through, pull out and store.

On the shelves, then, you can use vertical dividers, which serve to keep the piles of folded clothing (as well as accessories) separate, and without the risk that you have to rummage through everything to find what you want (and that the piles collapse and fall out as you do so).

To augment the impression of order and improve the aesthetics of the entire set-up, use hangers, baskets and accessories of the same type. Hangers which are all the same or of a few different types and used placed in blocks, as well as baskets and boxes of the same material and with similar patterns and colors, help to coordinate the look of a full closet.

Make use of any type of covered container you may need: especially in walk-in closets (which are more or less large rooms), dust will always collect, so it is best to protect everything possible with boxes and cases which have lids.

How did you organize your wardrobe?