How to clean up your wardrobe?

Every person at least once in his life wondered how to put things in order in a closet with clothes, especially if the family has small children. To maintain the perfect order in the house, it is recommended that you allocate your own place for each item. This approach to storing things will provide you with a fairly easy choice of wardrobe items and eliminate the need to review the entire contents of the cabinet every time you need to find a specific sweater, t-shirt or pants. In this article, we will share with you secrets on how to properly put things in order in a closet and arrange all things on shelves, boxes and hangers.

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Cabinet Content

Before you start cleaning in the closet, you should decide what things need to be stored in order to avoid the accumulation of various trash. Try to store only those wardrobe items that you really need.

Separate all items from your warehouse according to the following criteria:

• Choose only modern and perfect clothing for your figure.
• When purchasing a new thing, be sure to think about what things you can combine with your wardrobe. In the closet there must be at least 2 things of suitable color and style.
• Only whole and clean things that are in perfect condition and do not require repairs should be stored.
• You should like the clothes and be comfortable to wear.
• Store extremely comfortable and practical shoes.
• Clothing and shoes that you have not used for more than a season should not be stored.
• For each item from your wardrobe should be allocated a separate place.

Important! If so many things have already been gathered in your wardrobe that you find it difficult to combine them, perhaps our reviews with the recommendations of stylists regarding the choice of clothes for different occasions will come in handy:

• Fashionable jeans styles.
• How to choose shoes for a suit?
• How to choose shoes for a dress?
• How to choose a scarf for a coat by color?
• How to choose a hat for a coat?

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How to disassemble a closet with clothes?

To restore the perfect order in the closet, a strict audit of the wardrobe should be carried out. Start by emptying the closet - remove all clothing and shoes and wipe off any accumulated dust with a damp cloth. Usually a surprisingly large amount of dirt is collected on shelves and in inaccessible places.

Important! If you notice that dirt accumulates in your apartment literally at lightning speed, choose the right cleaning product to ease your household chores. Click on the link for a separate publication, in which a selection of the best tools is already ready, than wiping the dust so that it sits less.

After wet cleaning the cabinet should be taken for the audit of things, which is carried out according to the following principles:

1. Distribute all things according to the season of operation. Clothing that is currently not in demand, place on the upper compartments of the wardrobe or on the shelves and hangers of the pantry.
2. Put things that you don’t use in a separate category - most likely, you will no longer need these clothes. These clothes can be calmly given to those in need or thrown away.
3. Try not to store a lot of rags and things for giving, because in most cases they only occupy a place in the closet and do not represent any value.Throwing away all unnecessary textile products, you yourself will be surprised how spacious your closet is.
4. Children's things usually remain practically unworn and retain an attractive appearance, so they can be resold or given to young parents who need them.

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Storage Rules

After sorting the things in the closet and getting rid of unnecessary clothes, start organizing storage areas for various wardrobe items. All items should be washed and ironed before being put on a shelf or hung on a hanger. You can fold clothes as follows.

Important! If you decide to carry out a general wash, be sure to read our articles, tips from which will help you quickly deal with this:

• How to wash clothes from different fabrics?
• How to iron things?

Underwear and socks

Such items of individual and everyday use as socks and underwear are very convenient to store in a special organizer with dividing partitions. You can buy such a device in almost any hardware store - it will definitely help you put things in order in your closet with clothes at a minimal cost.

You can also make a laundry organizer yourself, for this you will need the following materials:

• cardboard box;
• long ruler;
• pencil;
• stapler and staples;
• glue;
• brush;
• scissors;
• dense wallpapers or covers from glossy magazines.

Important! Remember that you should not accumulate products that are not very comfortable to wear, especially since this applies to socks. It is better to have 3-4 pairs of quality ones in use. The advice of our specialists set out in the review will help you choose these. “Which socks are better to choose?”.

The process of creating an organizer for storing underwear consists of the following steps:

1. Selection of a cardboard box in accordance with the dimensions of the box where the linen organizer is planned to be placed. A cardboard product is considered to be ideal for 1 cm smaller than the cabinet drawer itself.
2. From the bottom of the box, back off a centimeter less than the height of the furniture drawer and, after marking with a pencil, cut off excess cardboard with an office knife or scissors.
3. Leave the remaining cardboard for the manufacture of partitions in the future organizer.
4. Glue all surfaces of the box using wallpaper.
5. Based on the dimensional characteristics of the inner surface of the box, cut out the bottom, which should also be glued with wallpaper.
6. Cut the appropriate size of the partition along the length and width, which will create branches of the desired parameter.
7. Cut the grooves in the partitions and paste over the cardboard with wallpaper.
8. Place the resulting structure in the cabinet drawer and arrange the laundry in sections.

Important! In the organizer you can create special cells for storing feminine personal care products.

Accessories

Ties, belts and other accessories are most conveniently stored on the side doors of the cabinet. If your furniture is not supposed to have special holders for this kind of thing, then you can buy hangers with characteristic holes in the hardware store.

By placing ties and belts in this way, you will get rid of the need to constantly clean in the appropriate compartment, so it will be much easier to maintain an ideal order in the cabinet.

Important! If the dress code at work obliges you to strictly adhere to business etiquette, you may also find useful tips on how to choose a tie for a shirt.

T-shirts and sweaters

To store such types of clothing as T-shirts and sweaters, a separate shelf should be allocated in the closet. If you are afraid of wrinkles on your clothes, you can store them in the form of neatly rolled rollers.

Important! If your family consists of several people, then a practical solution is to determine a separate shelf for each household. And another tip: do not rush to throw away old and thoroughly worn knitted T-shirts.

Our helpful tips portal has an interesting publication that collects the best ideas, what can be done from an old t-shirt.

Pants, skirts, dresses

To avoid damage to clothing and the appearance of pronounced folds, items of clothing such as blouses, dresses, skirts and trousers should be stored on hangers. For more convenient use, separate each category of things with the help of special dividers.

Footwear

For storing shoes, it is most convenient to use separate boxes with small cutouts. Thus, you can determine its contents without opening the lid. To determine the shoe for storage, it must first be cleaned and dried. Stickers with the corresponding shoe image can be glued to the surface of the box.

Important! It’s most practical to arrange shoe boxes according to the seasonality of the shoe so that the shoes you need are as close as possible. And you can completely free the closet from boots, shoes, shoes, because there are many practical places for storing shoes, even in a small apartment.

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Useful recommendations:

• Out of season items are best stored in a separate cupboard. If this is not possible, then place them on the upper shelves.
• Carefully fold all the wardrobe items strictly in the places reserved for them.
• When buying every new item, throw away old clothes that you will no longer use.
• Store products from expensive and delicate fabrics in special duffel bags.
• Use mainly hangers made of wood, since it is precisely such devices of the kind that best preserve the shape of the outfits.

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In this article, we shared tips and practical recommendations for storing things and we hope that from now on your closet will always have the perfect order.