As National Clean Your Closet Week concludes, we curated together easy and affordable closet solutions to help get your closet organized — as recently seen on New Day Cleveland with Brass & Bubbles home organization. This is also a great way to plan a phased approach to buffering and organizing your closet to feel like your own personal boutique.
FROM CHAOTIC TO CONTROLLED
Mismatched plastic hangers, clothes falling off, long sleeves mixed with short sleeves and green next to red, this is the reality of a closet that has never been properly set up with a sustainable system — it also might take you 10x longer to find the piece you’re looking for in the morning, leaving the clothes that didn’t make the cut unfolded and piled up on the floor underneath. Here are a few affordable organization solutions that can help, although not every space is the same — adding in structure and these simple systems is a good start.
Of course, the benefit of hiring B&B to help is that we will work through this for you, and then with you, set it up, buffer your wardrobe, and bring in the missing pieces for a space you won’t want to mess up again!
Switching out your hangers can be a gradual progress, but these Costco Black Flocked Hangers at just $35 for 100 is a great deal (even on sale until 3/31/24). If you were to shop on Amazon or Target you would be spending double or triple that for the same amount of hangers. Adding Dividers is another way to keep you and your newly organized space accountable and on track.
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Empty Closet? If you just have a clothing hanger bar with empty space underneath, take some measurements to see if a cube solution could be integrated for additional zones and containment. We love these for jeans, sweaters, sweatshirts, and sweatpants. They’re also great for making a little boutique display with your favorite handbags! Pictured is 11″ cubes for just $35. We also love 13″ cubes as they are a bit bigger and another great option, but a little bit more.
The grey bins are also great pieces to integrate into your closet to help store and rotate out seasonal pieces or more clothes. The open felt baskets ($20 ea.) could also sub out on the floor with sweatshirts or sweatpants, the goal is to create zones and contain! The fabric bins with lids ($8 ea.) are also great for seasonal pieces, I use them to store my shorts and golf gear. Both of these come in different sizes, so measure to see what is the best fit for your space!
THE B&B PROCESS
Brass & Bubbles starts with a free over-the-phone consultation, to learn your pain points and goals of your space — we will then take some time to quote your project and source any additional solutions (if needed) that we would recommend for your space and send over your customized plan! Depending on the size of the project, we can usually transform and organize a space within 1-3 days, and we can do this while you work so that you don’t even miss a beat in your day-to-day schedule.
We’ve helped a variety of families from couples to new parents, to families of five and seven! The main reasons our clients reach out for us to help are that they don’t have time, are overwhelmed, or have tried to organize their space themselves but it just isn’t working. The reason our clients hire us for a second and third project is that the systems and spaces we’ve organized for them have been sustainable and changed the way they function in their daily lives, from primary suites to kitchen pantries, laundry rooms, and garages.
Being on live TV was definitely a new experience, it was very nerving leading up to the big day — and my setup was definitely a lot, clearing out most of my own personal closet! Thankfully we had our squad to help load, set up, grab content, unload, and then celebrate afterward. It was so quick, we wish we could go for round two!
🎥 Watch the full New Day Cleveland segment here!
