Sunday, March 14, 2010

Closet Organization

This is totally a girl thing but I am into closet organization these days. I have several closets that are in need of it and I recently spent a couple hours at The Container Store (TCS). I circled around the store several times and almost ran out of there screaming when I decided to tackle one project at a time instead of organizing all my closets on one visit. This is basic organizational management which was not working for me and totally ironic considering my mission at the time.
First off, I want this pantry. I love it but am not sure where they are stashing their boxes of cookies and cereal and where are all the cans?! Still, I love it for its basic simplicity and cleanliness. This must be a show pantry because who takes all their stuff out of nice packaging to put it into other, albeit prettier stuff?This wasn't the project I started out with on this most recent foray into the world of organization, TCS, but trust me my pantry looks nothing like this and I am not going to include a photo here. I am no fool.
Instead, I decided to work on my bedroom closet. My first effort wasn't bad but there is still much work left to do. Let me begin by saying, my closet has only 4 drawers and they are big drawers. Looking for an item of clothing in them is something close to digging for buried treasure except you don't remember what you buried in there and when you pull out some little prize it is usually the wrong season for it. I found these paper Swedish boxes at TCS and they work well for jewelry organization and for small lingerie items. So far, all is well and now it is time to fine tune the rest of this place. Here are my little Swedish boxes sitting atop the bigger "bottomless pit" drawers.The little photo display just isn't working for this spot so I need to think this whole thing over next. It looks like another trip(s) to TCS is/are in my future.