Keeping a home isn’t easy. Oftentimes, it can feel more like treading water than anything else – the endless cavalcade of menial tasks, from the dishes to the washing and back again, all just to keep a relatively-messy status-quo. But we want for more than this, don’t we?
An organised home is a harmonious one, at least in our mind’s eye. The prospect of a place for everything, and everything having its place, is a calming one in a life often defined by stresses and messes. A whole house is a lot to tackle in one, but one small space at a time makes an organised home a distinct possibility; why not start with what could be the most useful space to organise in your home? Here are some simple steps to organise your wardrobe, as a first step to better home organisation and as a route to a calmer daily life.
Assessing Your Wardrobe Needs
A wardrobe is, unavoidably, a deeply individual thing. Not only do you have an individual sense of fashion, reflected in a unique collection of clothes and accessories, but you also have different day-to-day needs from others. As such, there’s no all-encompassing process for organising a wardrobe to suit your specific needs. Still, there are broad steps you can take towards a setup that serves your needs and declutters your home in the process.
The first of these steps is one of reckoning. How much do you have in your wardrobe that you haven’t touched in over six months? And seasonal items that haven’t made it out for over a year? This is your opportunity to evaluate your current wardrobe, and identify what is essentially clutter.
Create three piles – keep, donate, and throw away. Be ruthless, and you’ll find a healthy amount of your existing wardrobe in the latter two camps. Not only this, but your ‘keep’ pile can be further subdivided into things you want access to, and things that can be stored away for now – be they summer shorts or winter coats.
Choosing the Right Storage Solutions
Having excised the clutter from your wardrobe, now the unenviable task of putting what remains back in place. This is an opportunity of its own though, to improve the storage layout in your wardrobe and make it much easier to use your wardrobe day-to-day. Straight replacing your wardrobe with sliding wardrobes could add more liveable space to your bedroom, and make it easier for you to access everything in the process.
Whatever your wardrobe situation, it can be improved with some small investments into organisational materials – organisers, baskets, and dividers help to differentiate between different types of clothing and accessories.
