Make Your Custom Closets Seem Bigger With These Easy Tips

Todd Saieva • Mar 14, 2023

Even when you can fit everything in your custom closet, it’s not comfortable or attractive have to cram because the closet is too small. Sometimes that’s just an aesthetic problem, and sometimes it means you don’t actually have enough room – or you won’t if you buy one more thing.

Here are some steps you can take to make your custom closets seem bigger – and they aren’t as difficult as you might think.

Double Your Hanging Space
Clear the Closet Floor
Get Rid of Your Closet Doors
When All Else Fails, Purge

Take a look at what you can do to open up your custom closet system.

Double Your Hanging Space

Would you have more room if you could just hang more items? If so, why not increase your hanging space? Add an additional hanging rod. You may need to move the old one up, then you can position the new one below it. This allows you to have two rows of hanging clothes.

Some people put tops on the top rod and bottoms on the bottom; others choose to put more commonly used items on top and less frequently used on the bottom. Do what works best for you and your clothing needs.

Clear the Closet Floor

Nothing makes your closet appear cluttered quite like a jumble of shoes or a pile of clothes on the closet floor. Getting everything off the floor will go a long way toward making your closet feel like a larger and more open space.

There are several ways to do this, depending on what’s taking up your closet floor space. Maybe it would help to bring in a hamper for dirty clothes, rather than letting them pile up on the floor. You could use an over-the-door organizer or shoe shelves to get shoes off the floor and out of the way.

Get Rid of Your Closet Doors

Your closet doors may need to go in order to really give your closet a more spacious look and feel. Bifold doors in particular have a way of blocking some of the space in the closet even when they’re open. When you remove them, you’ll be able to see more of the closet space and may even find that you have room that you weren’t able to access with the closet doors in the way.

If you really dislike the look of a closet left open, you may prefer a different kind of door – like a sliding door that can be moved entirely out of the way – or even a curtain across the opening to the custom closet space. However, if it’s kept organized and is attractively decorated, a completely open closet is a better look than you might think, and the removal of the doors makes it easier to keep the space neat.

When All Else Fails, Purge

When you can’t find any other way to make room in your closet, there’s one thing that always works – purge. Get rid of some things. You can’t help but open up space when you eliminate some of the items taking up room. Realistically, you probably do not need everything you have in your closet, and it’s time to think about downsizing.

If you don’t know where to start, The Organized Mom can help you with five questions you can ask yourself to decide if you should keep an item or not. From practical considerations like “does it fit?” to more subjective questions like “how do I feel in it?” these questions can help you get your wardrobe down to a more reasonable level. Your closet should contain the clothes you like to wear, want to wear, and can wear.

Conclusion

A small closet can seem like a problem, but there are things you can do to make the space feel larger. Add hanging space, clean off the closet floor, reconsider whether you really need those closet doors, or just purge some things from your collection.