Claim Your Closet Home Improvement Tip

By: GeraldJenkins

I’m sure many of us have more things than we need. We always think we need something. A home improvement tip to ask yourself is, do I need this, or do I just want it? Our closets seem to be a prime target for the accumulation of all our needs. If you have stuff piled sky high with no rhyme or reason, then this home improvement tip article, can help you claim ownership of your closet again.

There are many different ways to organize a closet, but the first home improvement tip is to clean it out first, of everything. That’s right, take it all out. You really need to sort through everything and if it is hanging, or stacked on a shelf, it is easy to say I need that, and just not bother with it. Once you have everything out, you have to now pick up each item, and you can begin asking yourself, do I need this, or just want this? A home improvement tip of placing your items in three piles can help you to accomplish the task of sorting through what you have. You will need, a keep pile, a garage sale pile and a pile to get rid of items you don’t need or want to sell. By the way, the money you make from your garage sale can allow you to buy something you need, (or want).

The next home improvement tip is to build some inexpensive shelves if you don’t have enough already. You can purchase them already done if you would like or can afford. There are some that are pretty inexpensive, and just made of cardboard or particle board. An inexpensive home improvement tip to build your own, is to just buy the brackets and a shelf board, which can be made of particle board instead of real wood, since it will cost less money. You can cut the board to any size you need. This way, you can even build a shelf for a small space. A home improvement tip when stacking your items on the shelves is to organize them in piles. You could organize summer and winter things, pants in one stack, sweat shirts in another, etc.

Now that you have the top and sides all organized. You need to concentrate on the bottom half of the closet. Here’s a home improvement tip for the bottom half. You can design your own shoe shelves by just building some small shelves like you did on top, or you can buy some shoe racks already made. There are even some that hang up on a hanger. Another home improvement tip would be to get some plastic containers or tubs as there are many to choose from, and many are in designer colors so they would be decorative as well. I guarantee if you use a home improvement tip offered in this article, you will claim ownership of your closet once again.