Brilliant CLOSET HACKS & Tips to Customize a Walk-in Closet

If you’re like me, getting mostly stuck inside (as cold weather punishes) creates a tension. There is all of this creative energy that builds up. Where does that unexpressed tension go? As someone who thrives with order, I feel compelled to organize. Closet Hacks & Tips to customize a walk-in closet provides motivation and visual inspiration to get moving. Let’s face it. Energies can plummet in the winter. Even though I truly desire to get those spaces organized, my joints, muscles, and physical limitations have somethin’ to say too! (Does thinking about organizing qualify as progress?)

Hello Lovely's DIY customized walk-in closet with white Shaker style closet modules, drawers, and natural baskets to organize clothing and maintain order while looking calm.

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CLOSET HACKS & Tips to Customize a Walk-in Closet

Emotional Prep Before Lifting a Finger

It helps to first get centered in your intentions when it comes to bringing order to closets and drawers. Our personalities and organization styles vary, and I am not someone who can dive right into disorder to begin sorting.

Entrance to small bedroom with Venetian mirror. We transformed it DIY style into a romantic dressing room and closet - Hello Lovely Studio. #sherwinwilliamsagreeablegray
Closet hacks as well as tips to customize walk-in closets

It takes a strategy where I first get my head on straight about why the investment of time and energy makes sense. How do I hope to feel in the end? And how will clearing clutter to create efficiency bring ease to daily functioning, to my wellbeing?

Close up of Hello Lovely's black velvet wrapped jewelry organizer drawer insert from Modular Closets.
Hello Lovely – Jewelry organization from Modular Closets in a drawer in my closet

Once I have the picture of more calm order in my head and a feeling for the vibe, mobilization can begin.

Sliding mirror pivots in Hello Lovely's DIY custom loset with white shaker style modular closet towers. #diycloset #customclosetideas
A sliding mirror in our bedroom closet from Modular Closets

Another piece of the emotional preparation? Recalling how corralling all of the chaos to welcome more order IS NOT A RACE.

Hello Lovely's custom white DIY closet is airy and serene with personal touches including marble trays and an old mirror stenciled with script. #customclosetideas #diyclosetmakeover
Closet hacks as well as tips to organize walk-in closets

In fact, creating effective organization systems that make sense for your unique needs trumps simply executing quickly an arbitrary organization plan.

Take advantage of vertical space - baskets store items near the ceiling in Hello Lovely's DIY custom closet makeover with white shaker style modules from Modular Closets.

That moment I acknowledge I don’t have to rush? When I remember there is no deadline? I can get to work with a spirit of ease and calm.

A vintage brass crystal chandelier adds softness and romance to my DIY custom closet makeover of our walk-in bedroom closet - Hello Lovely.

A liberating force may overcome mental obstacles to get started. I’m not suggesting everyone needs such mindful preparation. My sister simply leaps right into any and every disorganization fire in a boldly embodied way, bypassing any cognitive obstacles!

Hello Lovely's DIY custom walk-in closet makeover with white oak hardwoods, vintage dresser and new rustic alder door.
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Calm Chaos Into Order

Just a reminder it’s not a small thing to decide to trade chaos for calm.

Hello Lovely's DIY custom closet dressing roo with shaker style drawers and pull-out metal baskets. #closethacks #customclosetideas

By creating calm you’ll bring more ease to the everyday. You’ll create space for the beauty of what’s new. (Beauty may come as the beauty of donating objects, clothing, and collections that bless others.)

White shaker style drawers and modules in my DIY custom closet makeover of a walk-in closet - Hello Lovely Studio.

Simplicity of Natural Seagrass + White Shelves

Were money no object, I would commission custom solid wood built-ins for all of my storage needs. Custom fabric drapes would soften the look and conceal anything fussy looking. However, my closet budget allows for modular shelving units and white wire shelves.

Hello Lovely mixed natural seagrass baskets, chrome metal pull outs, and white shaker style closet modules in a romantic dressing room closet painted SW Agreeable Gray.

A custom detail to warm these sterile modules up? Woven baskets. The secret is limiting yourself to just one or two different basket styles. It is one more way to get a calm look.

Hello Lovely's petite laundry area with bobbin style table placed between washer and dryer for an easy counter solution.
Hello Lovely – baskets to hide clutter in a laundry room

Measure your shelves/cubbies before choosing the proper size baskets. If you find a particular style you love, buy enough since uniformity is the goal and the exact style may not be available in the future. Here are a few ingredients I mixed in 2023 for our bedroom’s walk-in closet:

Turn an Underused Room or Bedroom into a Family Closet

One of the first renovation projects we tackled here at the Georgian was a dressing room closet. The full story is HERE.

With this closet module design, we added organization and storage while leaving enough space for a bed, vanity area, and work area.

Hello Lovely's DIY custom closet dressing room with Belgian linen slipcovered chair and SW Agreeable Gray walls.
There’s still room for a twin or full size bed in here!

I didn’t want the space to lose its identity as a bedroom for resale. (We also didn’t disturb the existing closet with bifold doors and a narrow linen closet you can’t see in photos!)

What a transformation of function and design, and what a testament to how an awkward room can become a multipotentialed flex space.

Hello Lovely's DIY custom closet makeover transforming a small bedroom into a dressing room with closet modules and smart planning. #sherwinwilliamsagreeablegray
Before clothing and belongings moved into this dressing room closet

Don’t overlook the potential of a strange, under-utilized space in your own home for a “family closet” or “closet-office.”

Belgian linen slipcovered arm chair with antiqued silver side table in Hello Lovely's bedroom with knotty alder interior door.

Closet & Bedroom Organization Resources

If you’re not a DIYer or interested in closet modules like mine, there are plenty of readymade pieces to consider. Maybe you only need more drawers in a bedroom:

Isn’t that a lovely piece that looks antique?

Psst. Need an idea for a similar linen skirted armchair perfect for a dressing room, walk-in closet or bedroom space? This one has a surprisingly competitive price point:

If you have a walk-in closet with space (or potential for space with a section of wire shelving removed), would a dresser and mirror help it feel and function like a dressing room?

While this dresser may not be appropriate for a grownup bedroom, it might work well in a dressing room or family closet or even a craft room to organize the stuff of life.

Funny dog quote and pet humor on Hello Lovely Studio. #humorquores #petquote #dogquotes

Organization for Utility Rooms & Garage Storage

Linen Closet Organization & Clothing Storage

Soft sided storage cubes to organize clothing and store seasonal items.
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Poignant struggle quote and life quote about holding paradox in modern life - Hello Lovely Studio. #strugglequotes #modernlifequotes

Under Cabinet Storage

Bedroom Closet Organization

Modular Closets Hanging Closet Organizer. #closetorganization #closethacks
Modular Closets Hanging Closet Organizer – Closet Organization Ideas as well as Photos of My New Closets
Grid 48"W - 96"W Closet System. #closetorganization #diycloset
Grid Closet System – Closet organization ideas along with hacks for drawers and more
Foldable cloth storage cubes. #clothingorganization #closetorganization
Foldable Cloth Storage Cubes – Closet organization ideas for walk-in closets, linen closets, and coat closets

Vertical Space to for a Coat Closet Transformation

Polished Habitat's linen closet organization system with tower of shelves and smart use of vertical space. #closetorganization #linenclosets
Polished Habitat – Closet Organization Ideas as well as Photo gallery of hacks for linen closets and beyond

Linen Closet Organization Goodness

Encouragement quote from Michele - Hello Lovely Studio. #hopequotes #encouragementquotes #strugglequotes

Creative Shoe Storage

Slow & Steady Progress

I’m soooo done with saving the world in a day!! Frantic mode is costly and requires too much adrenaline. Steady and small gestures will do.

Encouragement quote about struggle and overcoming on Hello Lovely Studio. #personalgrowthquotes

Even short bursts still lead to completion and to the joy of more calm and order.

Organization Inspiration

Minimalista by Shira Gill

Sweet Organization Hacks from Homebodies

Actionable Ideas Inspired By Dream Closets

When clothes get mindfully hung with like colors together…oh, my! Also, aren’t the picture lights clever if you will be renovating or building new?

Call me compulsive, but a sea of white can be a glorious sight…

Organized linen closet with white bins gets rid of a busy or fussy cluttered look - @breathing.room.organization
Closet organization bliss by @breathing.room.organization

As if a peninsula counter in a shop-like closet wasn’t remarkable enough, isn’t the color combination beyond too?

Bespoke luxurious closet with charcoal gray, custom lighting, and glass doors by L'Atelier Paris. #customcloset #latelierparis
Courtesy of L’Atelier Paris Haute Design – see more of their work in this story.

Just in case you were aggravated there were no realistic organization hacks for the non-wealthy:

Of course I have to return to the Giannettis’ brilliant storage solution in their Patina Farm bedroom’s dressing area. Belgian linen panels hang from unlacquered brass rings and rods. Who needs clunky closet doors when you can have silent softness?

Patina Farm dressing room off bedroom with Belgian linen panels concealing clothing storage - Velvet and Linen. #customclosets #dressingrooms
A favorite closet indeed (at Patina Farm) Velvet and Linen

In the dressing room of our French country house, I covered the wall with a gorgeous stenciled Fortuny pattern, and it took only a couple of hours. Best of all, I never tired of this look. I found the stencil HERE.

Hello Lovely's custom industrial garment racks in a dressing room stenciled with a damask pattern.
These industrial racks were designed by me and built custom by my husband from industrial pipe and reclaimed pine.

If you have a spacious closet or dressing room, I can imagine a table like this surrounded by readymade white modular shelves and hanging storage.

Rustic Round Dining Table for European country style in a breakfast dining area or small space.
Round Dining Table: FIND HERE

Love WATCHING Others Organize?

Anne Lamott inspirational quote on Hello Lovely Studio. #quotes #annelamott

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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