How to organise a wardrobe, small, built-in…
Empty suitcases, clothes racks, large boxes to store clothes from other seasons… We give you some ideas on how to organise a complete wardrobe.
There is nothing more despairing than a messy wardrobe; no matter how big it is, you can't find anything. But if, in addition, it is small, things get complicated. You may not feel like tidying up clothes, bags and shoes, or making the most of the space you have, but when you do get round to it, the satisfaction of finding what you are looking for, and for everything to fit, is much greater. Besides, there are little tricks to multiply the space in your wardrobe. It's not magic, but a matter of choosing the right accessories.
3 tips to organise clothes in little space:
- Join and separate, in Marie Kondo style: gather all your clothes in a pile, and separate them into the ones you are going to keep, the ones you are going to donate, and the ones you have to repair, according to the method of the Marie Kondo organisation guru. Then, take the ‘repair’ pile, and assess whether it is really worth the effort. Then separate the clothes you are going to hang from the clothes you are going to fold. You can take advantage of this process of taking out all the clothes you have in your wardrobe, to make a selection of those that you no longer wear and donate them.
- Use the vertical folding and three-fold system (like packages) of the Konmari method for t-shirts and jumpers in the drawers, classify them by colours, from darkest to lightest. You'll see how you save space and have a greater sense of tidiness.
- Use accessories that help you optimise space: such as pull-out trouser racks, Z-shaped shoe organisers, dividers for the interior of drawers, multi-purpose hangers, etc.
Useful advice
"Elimination is the first step to organisation," says Marie Kondo, who ensures that the main problem is not so much storage capacity, but the accumulation of things that do not bring us joy.
- Compartmentalising drawers: there are drawer dividers by sizes, like boxes, depending on what you want to store, such as underwear, gloves, socks, etc.
- Double your shoe rack with accessories, such as Z-shaped shoe organisers that save 50% of the space, and organise them in the bottom of the wardrobe.
- Pull-out trouser racks: these are ideal for small wardrobes because they save space and allow you to see all the models you have.
- Belts, handbags and scarves on hangers: for belts, there are accessories that can be pulled out and allow you to hang them up, and for handbags and scarves, there are vertical hangers that allow you to hang them on the wardrobe door. But, only for the current season’s ones. You can put the ones you don't use in a box at the top of the wardrobe. If you want to follow the Marie Kondo method, we advise you to put one bag inside another one to save space.
- T-shirts in the drawers with the Marie Kondo method, with its famous 'vertical fold', in three folds and in a colour scale: this way they do not crease, if you place them with the rounded part facing up, so that it is much easier to take them out, and so as not to untidy the rest when you take them out.
- Clothing hooks so that the hangers do not pile up and multipurpose hangers, with the capacity to hang several hangers, which can be made of wood, plastic or metal, although ideally all the hangers should be the same. In this way, you will also gain in visual harmony.
- Organiser boxes to make the most of the height of the wardrobe.
- In the absence of drawers, there are hanging organisers.
- Necklaces at a glance: you can hang them up so you can see them on the inside of the wardrobe door. Another option, if you have enough shelves, are the standing organisers that exist in the market.
- Use other furniture in the room: if you have a chest of drawers or a dresser in your room, you can use it to store jumpers or clothes you use less, and leave the wardrobe for the clothes you use more on a daily basis.
- Suitcases at the top of the wardrobe, but not empty: you can use them to put some suitcases inside others, but also to keep clothes from other seasons or bedding.
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