winter clean up. by orange

As violet mentioned, we both went through a closet purge shortly after the New Year.  I'm not done with the project quite yet but have made some good progress.  Cleaning out the closet and drawers really makes me think back to Clueless and Cher's amazing closet.  And it makes me think how wonderful would a closet room be? yes I did say closet "room" - I currently have a walk in and it's not cutting it.

Filled with perhaps this wallpaper and looking as clean and crisp as the below.

Well that's not quite reality.  So I put the question to you - how do you organize your closet?  What works?  What doesn't?

So far, I've gone so far to color code my tops and that has seemed to help some.  No more digging through hangers wondering "no, not this purple shirt; i want the one with the ruffle; where is it hiding?!" 

Here is what we are working with:

Not crisp nor clean.  And you might be able to see, the jeans folded above are on a rack, in between the two racks of shirts on the right hand side of the first closet picture.  I also have a dresser with three drawers to utilize.  Those three drawers are of course full at the moment.  One drawer for socks, etc., another one with tanks & tees and the final one with misc. pants.

Ideas?

orange, wishing I was in these rad slippers.

wallpaper closet. by orange

tonight was filled with a birthday dinner at yummy Cactus restaurant right on the water in West Seattle. during dinner my friend Shelby mentioned this fun idea: wallpapering a closet. feeling inspired i looked for some wallpaper closet photos - check them out.

i love the mix of wall paper and delicate light fixtures...

i also stumbled across some good closet wallpapering ideas at House Beautiful.

the closet. by orange

One of the big upsides of dating/marrying the husband is the house we bought together. Specifically a certain closet in our house. This closet (pictured below) looks like any regular linen closet. It is in the upstairs landing, directly across from our master bedroom. Well when I saw the closet, I thought something entirely different than linens....

a shoe closet! ta-dah!

I picked out a few of my favorites...

pink with white piping heel - target

white/silver flat - target

orange leather flat - mia (nordstrom)

green wedge - keds (nordstrom)

black studded ankle boot - steve madden (nordstrom)

black patent leather/wood platform heel - michael kors (nordstrom)

gold/beige heel - oh deer (online shoes)

so if you ever get the complaint you have too many shoes by a significant other...just point them to this blog post and they should feel better :)