Closet spaces vary dramatically between individuals; we’ve all been impressed by someone’s perfectly organized personal clothing depot or apprehensive about someone else’s whirlwind of shoes, sweatshirts, and cosmetic appliances. If you fall into the latter category, don’t worry. We’ll share a few secrets with you that will allow you to start picking up the mess.
One secret that the perfectly organized closet-havers have known about for years is the wire shelving unit. Wire shelving units are cheap, durable, light, and can add a ton of vertical space to your closet’s total storage area.
In this article, we’ll share four ways to use wire shelving for your closet that you can jump into action and use immediately to bring order to the madness of an untamed closet.
Wire shelving units provide vertical storage space and naturally organize items via separating them on different shelves. Once you have a wire shelving unit, you no longer have an excuse to store items in a pile. Wire shelving units can bear a lot of weight and are more than adequate for anything in your clothes or appliance closets.
Let’s dive in and look at four ways that you can use wire shelving for your closet.
Organizing your items by theme is very easy with a wire shelving unit. Just pick a theme for each shelf of the shelving unit, and write a small label that you’ll then affix to the shelf. Organizing items by theme is more helpful for closets that have a bunch of loose items rather than clothes because it’s a bit harder to correctly thematically place clothes than it is for other stuff.
Organization by theme is the wire shelving unit trick that you should apply to any closet that you can’t summarize the contents of in one word. Typically, these are closets that aren’t attached to bedrooms or bathrooms, and they tend to accumulate a lot of miscellaneous stuff that might not have a single clear owner.
It’s quick to organize things by theme, and it’ll be very easy to enlist help in your quest to tame the mess. Wire shelving units are a no brainer and no hassle solution to the organization by theme.
Organizing your clothes closet by day is a simple way of offloading the choice of what to wear each day to your past self. Using wire shelving for the daily organizational scheme could be done in some different tactical ways, but I find that it works best when I put pieces of clothing on shelves that are closest to the part of the body that they are supposed to be worn.
Hats and accessories go on the top shelf, and shoes on the bottom shelf. You get the drill. Using the daily organizational scheme gets a lot of mileage out of wire shelving because it lets you create a system for streamlining your daily life rather than just storing your stuff.
Some closets have mixed purposes, and need to accommodate both clothes and other products. Wire shelving can help to separate these items from each other on a shelf by shelf basis and keep stuff which might get dirty far away from your pristine clothes.
You can also setup your wire shelving unit with a companion shelving unit directly across from it. For this setup, I like to have my clothes on one shelf, and the maintenance items for that type of clothing on the opposite shelf. That way, when I’d like to shine my boots or remove the lint from my shirt, I don’t have to go hunting for the boot shining brush or the lint roller—it’s just on the opposite shelf.
Your spouse probably shares some of your storage spaces with you, whether or not you like it. Wire shelving is a great way to bring a sense of separation to a shared closet. Depending on the size of your closet, you can segregate your stuff either by shelf or by shelving unit. Your spouse’s stuff won’t end up taking up your space any longer—unless you want it to, that is.
If you’re interested in using wire shelving units to provide organization to your chaotic closets, contact us today, and we’ll help you out. We can guide you through picking the right shelving unit for you as well as assembly and installation.
Hopefully, with a few wire shelving units and the use of the strategies we outlined here, you’ll be able to step a bit closer to the folks who make a perfect closet look effortless.
