Does your closet need some serious organizing help? When it comes to closet organization, DIY style is the best way to go. No need to buy expensive shelves and closet storage solutions when you can make something awesome that fits your budget and style, as well as your organizing needs. Learn how to make containers, shelves, storage cubes, tags and labels, garment racks and hangers.
DIY Closet Organizing Ideas
1. DIY Labels for Storage Bins
Fabric bins are wonderful right up until you cannot remember what is inside any of them. I went around in circles on how to label mine until I saw this. Crisp custom labels and the whole closet suddenly reads as deliberate. Polished Habitat sorted it out.
2. DIY Rolling Garment Rack
This garment rack is one of those projects that is fairly simple to put together especially if you a have a little help from your kids. Read Fresh Mommy Blog for the step-by-step instructions on putting together your own rolling garment rack!
3. Organize With Hooks
4. Organize Essentials
How stylish and inspiring can this idea get? I have been looking for something like this for a long time and this solution is so chic and classy. Totally an ingenious idea! Absolutely love this!
5. The Best No-Slip Hangers
I underestimated hangers for years. Swapping to slim no slip ones stopped everything sliding onto the floor and gave me back a surprising amount of hanging space. It is the cheapest change with the biggest visible payoff. Organise My House compares the options.
6. Fancy Minimalism
Garment racks are shockingly useful and it looks pretty sitting in the room. I don’t think I could do without one. Un-Fancy has some great uses for it too. Head on over to their site to learn more of the tips and tricks.
8. Upcycled Denim Hanging Organizer
If you have an old pair of jeans sitting in the closet, they are about to earn their keep. The denim is sturdy enough to hold accessories in pockets that hang right where you need them. I love an upcycle that solves an actual problem. My tutorial is here.
9. Make Your Own Hanging Laundry Hamper
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This is such an adorable idea even for a person without kids. Our laundry bag is such an eye sore, but a pretty one hanging on the inside of the closet door, what a wonderful stroke of genius!
10. Organize Your Linen Closet
Start fixing the clutter n your linen closet with these organization tips from Organized Living. One important trick I learned – as you clean out your linen closet and purge the unnecessary items, sort them by categories.
12. Damage-Free Door Storage
Renting means no drilling, and the back of a door is wasted space otherwise. This adds serious capacity without a single hole, which I wish I had known years ago. Blue i Style explains how it holds up.
17. Custom Master Closet on a Budget
This looks like a built in closet and it is basic IKEA PAX with trim added. That is the whole trick, and once I saw it I could not unsee how achievable it is. Artsy Chicks Rule has the details.
19. Closet Organization Made Easy
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22. DIY Shelves
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24. Clay Jewelry Organizer
I love air dry clay, and turning a plain lump of it into something useful is deeply satisfying. This organizer holds my favorite pieces where I can actually see them, and it looks like a decor object in its own right. Here is how I made mine.
28. Use Tension Rods
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29. Showcase Favorites
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30. Organized Craft Closet Shelving
My craft closet is where organization goes to die, so this one spoke to me. Adjustable shelving plus clear bins means the system stretches as the supplies multiply, which they always do. Little House of Four finished theirs beautifully.
33. Shoe Shelf Bench
Somewhere to sit while you put your shoes on, and somewhere for the shoes to live underneath. I like that it solves both problems right at the door, and the free plans adjust to your own measurements. Her Tool Belt has them ready to go.
