Bedroom Closet

We have decided on final resting places for most of our furniture and belongings in the house. After going back and forth, we decided on the small interior room as our Master Bedroom (until we tackle the downstairs renovation) and the larger/brighter front room as the Office/Guest Bedroom. Photos to come of our rooms as they are now.

With those decisions made and a windfall of Container Store sales and gift cards, we were ready to take on organizing our closets. We chose to outfit all four closets on the top floor (Bedroom, Office, Linen and Media) with Elfa systems. They are pretty easy to install, adjustable, and are super strong, plus we had a number of Elfa components left over from our closets and office in New York. Overall, all four closets ended up around $200 and they would have been about $1500 without the existing elements, sales and gift cards!

Our closets all have our 9' ceilings and we tried to utilize the height as much as we could. At 22"-30" deep, we decided shelves right above the door frames made the most since as we probably wouldn't be able to access anything higher.

We wanted the Bedroom Closet to hold all of our hanging clothes as well as our nice shoes. Because we’re trying to keep our floors as clean as possible, the more casual shoes are kept downstairs in the entryway under a bench. It took a bit of work to get all of the clothes to fit with room to grow but luckily we’re constantly paring down our wardrobes and Greg only has one pair of dress shoes. Here’s our illustration/diagram so we knew what to reuse and purchase:

And the finished closet:

Everything fits in so nicely. It’s kind of a pleasure to get dressed or even put away clothes now. Some of the highlights:
•a light inside and over the door frame to illuminate everything at night.
•room to grow… an extra foot of closet rod each
•those shoe shelves actually glide out!
•the shelf above Greg’s clothes will hold boots and shoes/bags that we don’t use that often