How to Organise your Bedroom Wardrobe?

You may be a ‘she’ who can’t find her scarf when getting ready for a party, or a ‘he’ who can’t find his tie before that big wedding. That’s the story with most of us. In the ensuing hunt for the elusive accessory, the wardrobe gets turned upside down, becoming more confused than ever. To put an end to this, we have some tips that will give you that clutter-free, picture-perfect wardrobe. Let’s get started.

Get rid of old clothes and clean your wardrobe: Firstly, take out everything from your wardrobe and compute what you need and what you don’t. Keep the latest, the sentimental and the most essential clothes. Get rid of old, unused and unfitting. This will provide more space to add your new editions. Before you put back the selected items in, clean your wardrobe. 

Organising is easy in a Nolte Wardrobe

Now the most overwhelming or intriguing part - organising. Though there are lots of ways to sort your clothes and accessories, you need to select a method that’s convenient for you. After all they say if you can organise your things, you can organise your life. So, let’s get to it.

According to the seasons: Keep the clothes you use on regular basis in the front and the rest at the back or deep storage. Keep rotating this schedule depending on whenever it is seasonally appropriate. For instance, if it is monsoon you can store your summer wear in the deep storage and vice versa. In India as we have seasons like - summer, rainy, autumn and winter; you can arrange your clothes accordingly. This method can be combined with how often you wear your clothes. If there’s a pair of clothe you wear many times in a fortnight it’s better to have them in the front so you can access them easily.

According to the days of the week: You can arrange your clothes going by the days of the week for instance Monday’s formals, Tuesday’s semi-casuals…..Friday’s casuals. This way you can have four batches that you can wear for a month.

According to style or occasion: Group your clothes depending on whatever you feel fall under these categories. For instance you can group your clothes in terms of formal, western wear, ethnic wear, party wear, fitness wear, home wear, denim wear.

Organise depending on your convenience

Some other ways of organising your clothes include: by your favourite brands, colour, and size.  

By cluster: Cluster is nothing but a group of five to eight clothing pieces that work together, in other words it’s mixing and matching outfits. The main organising principle here is the colour, not season or style. Group similar-coloured garments together, and think what you can add to this group to form a cluster? For instance your blue jeans can match tops in pink, black, white, orange colours. Adding another piece to a cluster means you can wear the garment several different ways, using the clothing already in the closet. Store clothes by cluster, and you simplify the process of getting dressed and even buying clothes.

Visual appeal: Out of sight is out of mind. You’re more likely to wear a dress if you see it. This is why you need to arrange them according to your visual cue.

Visual appeal is an essential factor

Top: The top wardrobe shelves should have clothes that fall under the out-of-season. Your sweaters, warm clothes, towels, pillow case, blankets, bed spreads or linens can be placed there. This means you’ll mainly have clothes that are not used every day but occasionally.

Eye-level/Middle: Most frequently used items like your daily wears can be kept in the middle, at your eye level. This will aid in finding clothes with ease or rapidly identifying a particular item when you’re in a hurry.

Bottom: Items which you use less frequently can be kept at the bottom of your wardrobe.

Hang: Hanging clothes is the easiest way to identify the clothes you need and makes your wardrobe look clutter free.  Hang up anything made out of easily creased material, such as cotton and linen. Hang tops, jeans, pants, skirts, dresses, jackets, blazers, based on their length, from short to long or based on their colour from dark to light. Besides, you can arrange them on basis of style, for instance dresses from strapless to long sleeves and if space permits try hanging all your clothes. Swing down rail and trouser holder pull-out are some of the features in a Nolte wardrobe that are an added bonus while hanging clothes.  Avoid wasting space under your hanged clothes instead put few trunks or boxes of clothes under it.

Fold: You can fold your t-shirts, shorts, curtains and knit wears; thus allowing you to organise your wardrobe space appropriately. In fact, you can fold any item that doesn’t crease. In a Nolte wardrobe, you don’t have to worry about storage space as these wardrobes come with drawers that are enormous with extensive space to treasure all your sartorial elegance.

Roll: Another substitute for folding clothes is rolling. Rolled garments take up less room in the drawer; rolling lessens creases and rumpling. You can do this for t-shirts, ties, shorts and inner wears.

Hang, fold, roll

Let’s get to the drawers: Drawers are a great solution for keeping your belongings easily viewable. They allow you to cram your clothes or accessories into the farthest corner of your closet and still be able to see what you’re looking for. Keep folded items in the drawers. For instance-your inner wears can be neatly arranged by colour, size, and type. A Nolte wardrobe will have pull out drawers, slide out trays, and pull out organisers so you can arrange your clothes and accessories effortlessly. Moreover, you don’t have to bother about buying dividers and organisers; it’s a real load off your mind.

Organising shoes: If you can organise your shoes efficiently, you don’t have to worry about them taking a lot of space in your wardrobe. Here are some ways to organize your shoes:

• Organise them by type like party wear, sports, sandals, heels, formal shoes and so on.
• Organize them by how often you wear them. Keep your favorite pair of boots, flip-flops, or sneakers in the place with the easiest access.
• Organise them by weather or season. Keep floaters in the front during rainy season, sandals for summer and the like.
• With a Nolte wardrobe you can organize your shoes neatly on the slanted shoe rack in the wardrobe. You can even customise your requirements and have a personalised wardrobe. For tall or ankle boots, the wardrobes come with a hook shoe rack so you can hang them. Other features include slide out shoe rack.

Organising shoes is easy peasy

Organising accessories: You can organise your wallets, ties, jewellery, clutches in the drawers; hang belts, handbags, scarves, stoles on the hooks; stack hats one above another. This way everything is visible and does not get in your way. Here too there’s scope for organising your accessories in terms of type, colour and size. Nolte wardrobes have the slide out tie and belt rack, slide out tray and pull out drawers to arrange your accessories precisely.

Tricks and tips:

•   If you have transparent boxes with clothes or accessories, label them so you can spot them easily as and when required without having to dig through each box.
• Use vertical space to store more, but be sure not to stack so high that it tumbles.
• Color coding your wardrobe makes finding things easier. So use differently coloured hangers to mark a different type of clothing. For example, you can hang your tops on white hangers, or your office wear on green hangers.
• Use dividers or tags to group your clothes based on the categories like days of the week, weather, style, colour, size.
• Every time you wear an item, turn the hanger around in the opposite way so that you don’t repeat wearing clothes in a week or so. After a few months, it becomes clear which clothes you haven’t worn for a long time and can live without.
• Roll garments so you can save more space.
• Use coordinated hangers for a clean look that will care for your clothes and help you stay organized.
• Store your most-used items at eye level, less-used items below, and least-used items up high.
• Drawers are for foldable items; hangers are for easily creased materials like dresses, pants, and suits.
• Hooks are always an extra storage space.
• You can tie your scarves around the horizontal length of a hanger. 

A beautiful wardrobe at the end of it

Follow these tips and work your way through systematically. At the end of it, you’ll have a beautiful wardrobe that’s organised keeping in mind the visual appeal and convenience for easy every day access to all the clothes and accessories you’re planning to wear.