How many shirts do you own?
Dressy long sleeve? Casual Short sleeve?
How many of your pants need hangers rather than being folded?
Do you need a place to hang belts?
Where will you put your socks, underpants, and shorts?
Your picture seems to have too much hanger space.
That system looks very inflexible and long shelves can get very messy and disorganized. Cloth bins on shelves are good for rolled socks. Count how many of each type of item you have/need. Stack them up to see how much space they actually take. For example, for summer and winter I have a total of 6 pair of pjs. They fit nicely into one shelf of a 12"x12"x 6 level wire frame shelving. Underwear in another, T shirts in one, jeans in one, long sleeve Ts in another. Socks in a two cloth bins.
Goals: easy access; separation; minimal mixing or falling out/off. Long shelves have three ways to fall: left, right, off. Vertical barriers reduce that to one. |_________| vs |__|__|__|__|
Thanks for the suggestions and feedback! Responses below:
Your picture seems to have too much hanger space. The new design would give me about 30% more hanger space than I currently have and I do not have enough. I have 7 or so football/soccer jerseys, a couple suits, winter jackets, fall/spring jackets, a windbreaker, several dress shirts, and on top of that i want enough space to hang a decent amount of the shirts I wear day to day, plus some room for future wardrobe expansion.
How many shirts do you own? Tough to say, there's about 4 dress shirts, 3-4 polo like shirts, 10 or so other assorted shirts, plus the 7 or so football jerseys. I also inherited a whole bunch of my dad's stuff, so I'm probably undercounting. And oh yeah, on top of that I have a couple fleece midlayer thingies and a couple hoodies and a sweater or two.
How many of your pants need hangers rather than being folded? My plan is to basically only hang pants if there is room, tops get complete 100% hanging priority. One of the shelves is supposed to be dedicated to pants and maybe shorts.
Do you need a place to hang belts? I have completely forgotten to consider belt storage in my design, but I only have 2 belts and am always wearing one of them. The backup belt will probably be rolled up and potentially stored on one of the shelves.
Where will you put your socks, underpants, and shorts? One of those basket things at the bottom is for socks, the other one for underpants and maybe shorts.
Shelves can get very messy and disorganized. This is a good point. It's sort of yet another reason why I have so much hanger space in my design. I'd rather shirts hang rather than be folded. Folding is like 5-6 steps. Hanging is one step. It's also easier to inspect a shirt that's hanging. HOWEVER, my mom has a folded shirt on shelf system and it seems to be working well. So I think it will be good to have shirts folded and on a shelf that I don't wear very often and I think I can make it work. Basically I'd hang as many shirts as feasible, and everything else can get the fold treatment. So ideally I'd want a decent amount of shelf space, but more hanging space. With my design I'm getting 30% more hanging space and at least double the current shelf space... So I might end up with a shelf or two empty.. but that's good, it leaves me room for wardrobe expansion (not planned, but who knows what the future will bring)
They fit nicely into one shelf of a 12"x12"x 6 level wire frame shelving To confirm, you are saying that it would be better to store everything found on a shelf in a 3-dimension storage container as opposed to leaving it out bare on the shelf? The two basket shelves I have in my design, at the bottom, for the socks and underpants, I didn't think that would work well for folded shirts (although maybe??). I could get a box thing to put on top of the shelf, but it seems that just adds extra steps. Shelf seems optimal for folded up shirts, but maybe I'm underestimating the full benefits of a box?
Long shelves have three ways to fall In this case I do get that down to two, the shelves would be as close to the side wall as possible. Yeah, there'd be a small gap there, but not large enough for a shirt. I am forseeing not using any of the shelves to the extreme, so it should be easy to manage the shirtload and keep things manageable and organized well on the shelf. But maybe you can convince me otherwise! I do like the appeal of those baskets. They just seem to work with smaller items like socks so much better, with shirts you'll have to pull out all the shirts if you want one in the middle. On a shelf you can do that much easier.
