Welcome to week 7 of A Bowl Full of Lemons 14 Week Organizing Challenge. This week we are headed into our master closets. Don’t be scared. You can do it! Closet space is precious and you don’t want to waste space on things you don’t use, so if you haven’t worn clothing in the last year, it might be a good idea to purge. Have a great week organizing!
If you are new to the challenge, look over the details then begin working at your own pace. For encouragement, join our Home Organization 101 Facebook community and share your progress or struggles. Or simply look through the photos and read how others are doing. If you’re on Instagram, share your progress using the hashtag #2016abfolchallenge. Don’t forget to print out the complete 14 week schedule and checklists below.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME ORGANIZATION
For the perfect companion guide to our challenge, purchase The Complete Book to Home Organization. It includes all 14 weekly challenges as well as tons of pictures and tips that will help you organize your spaces each week. No need to log onto the computer for inspiration, this manual has it all!
MY MASTER CLOSET
ORGANIZING INSPIRATION
Here are several blog posts that will inspire you to get your Master Closets organized.
THE ORGANIZING PROCESS
- Keep: Current Season
- Keep: Out of season
- Donate
- Sell
- Trash/Recycle
- Other Room
- Shoes
- Accessories
- Sort through everything in the closet. Empty it completely as you go. Divide everything into the 8 bins listed above (or more if needed). Purge the items you no longer want, wear or need. Get rid of as much clutter as you can.
- Vacuum or mop the floor
- Wipe down door, baseboards, doorknobs and switch plates
- Wipe down shelving
- Dust lights
Organize: It’s time to go through everything in the bins. Put the “other room” items where they belong. Toss the trash in the trash can outside. Place donations in your car and “to sell” items in the garage. When organizing things in the bins, remove one item at a time, categorizing as you go. Hang like items together and place out of season items in a rubbermaid tote. Label the box “Jane: Out of season” and place up high on the closet shelf.
- Short Sleeve
- Long Sleeve
- Sweaters (best if folded)
- Pants/Jeans
- Dresses
- Skirts
- Shorts
- Purses/Bags
- Belts
- Shoes
2016 HOME ORGANIZATION 101 SCHEDULE
- Week 1 (1/9/16) – Kitchen
- Week 2 (1/16/16) – Pantry
- Week 3 (1/23/16) – Dining Room
- Week 4 (1/30/16) – Launch Pad
- Week 5 (2/6/16) – Living Room
- Week 6 (2/13/16) – Master Bedroom
- Week 7 (2/20/16) – Master Closet
- Week 8 (2/27/16) – Kids Closets
- Week 9 (3/5/16) – Linen Closet
- Week 10 (3/12/16) Bathrooms
- Week 11 (3/19/16) – Office
- Week 12 (3/26/16) – Playroom/Toys
- Week 13 (4/2/16) – Laundry Room
- Week 14 (4/9/16) – Garage
- Week 15 (4/16/16) – Car (Bonus Week)
Take a few days to really clean out your master closet. You will be so happy when it’s all finished. Share your progress on Instagram using the hash tag #2016abfolchallenge, blog about the weekly challenges, and share your before and after pictures over at my Home Organization 101 group here. Keep up the great work. You can finish all 14 challenges! I can’t wait to see what you accomplish. Good luck. I’ll see you back next week for week 6 of the challenge. Happy Organizing!
~Toni
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11 comments
11 comments on “Home Organization 101 Challenge Week 7: The Master Closet”
On your old closet setup you had a shoe shelf between your two hanging bars. To you remember the heights you had the bars hung. I would love to do that but my lower bar is already too high and doesn’t leave room for the clothes on the upper bar.
Dear Toni,
Don’t you find wooden hangers “bulky”? I just switched all of mine from the wooden to the non-slip type from Costco. They take up less space in my tiny closet…10.00 for 35 hangers- a great deal!
My closet is very large so it works for me. 🙂
I absolutely love the out of season clothes up high on the top shelf. Such a great use of that hard to reach space. I also love having them in the closet rather than in a tote in the attic. I’m leaving inspired as usual. Thanks Toni!
I know you use the “Kon Marie” method, but don’t all of those clothes get wrinkled from being rolled up?
No 🙂
I’m excited to go organize my closet!! Thanks!
Hi Toni, awesome post with a lot of great advice. I didn’t realise how difficult the ‘purge’ was going to be until we started. Me and my Wife have got major envy over your closet, we wish we had that kind of room! Were actually revamping our bedroom completely so were just deciding how to maximise our closet space to make the organisation a little less painful!
I was wondering where I could purchase the closet shelving system like you have in your master closet
Home Depot
Sidebar: Is there a place on here where you review Tieks? I’m really thinking about purchasing a pair, and would love to here what you think about them.