How Does it Feel to Shop Your Closet?

Visualize walking into your favorite boutique this time of year. The items on display are for the season ahead—not the weather that’s already come and gone. The space feels fresh, relevant and inspiring.

Your closet should bring you the same excitement and anticipation. You’ve invested a lot in your wardrobe; why not make it feel like a shopping trip every time you open the doors?

This walk in closet organizer creates a well-defined shopping zone.

Discover Your Closet’s Shopping Zone

A change in seasons is the perfect time to give your closet a mini-makeover. Relocating storage for clothes you're not wearing now reserves your line of sight—your shopping zone—for day-to-day use. The custom closet above has a well-defined shopping zone.

Sort Before You Store: Editing Off-Season Clothes

Before you store last season's wardrobe in full, do away with what no longer suits you! Why wash, dry clean and make space for items you won’t be thrilled to rediscover next season? Seize the moment while you still remember what worked and what didn’t. Which outfits made you feel fantastic? What faded, stretched out or just didn’t fit? Part with the latter so you’re only storing items that have earned their place.

If space permits, use storage boxes on garage shelving to store off-season clothes. If your garage is overflowing, we can help with that, too! Call Closets of Tulsa for garage storage ideas.

Where to Store Off-Season Clothes

If space permits, neatly store off-season clothes on garage shelving or out of sight. (Here are some helpful tips on preparing clothes for storage, and why cardboard boxes belong in the recycling bin.) Choose a spot where the items fit comfortably.

If possible, leave the top of your closet shelving and the floor of your closet clear. Empty space gives your brain a break and directs your attention where it matters—your shopping zone!

If possible, simplify your space by leaving the top of your closet shelving and the floor of your closet clear.

If storing off-season clothes out of sight isn’t an option, try storage boxes and baskets on higher and lower closet shelves. Or, simply create a shopping zone by rotating off-season items to the periphery.

In small spaces with less flexibility, store off-season clothes in storage boxes and baskets on your closet shelves.

Wear More of What You Have

Relocating off-season items creates instant space in your closet. Defining your shopping zone in this way helps you see and regularly re-evaluate what you have. As a result, you’ll wear more of what you love (instead of buying more of it). Try it! You’ll notice yourself developing healthier habits around keeping and getting rid of things.