Closet of doom, meet Martha Stewart

Our little cape-style house has lots of closets. But most of them are very awkwardly shaped. One of Elena's close is narrow but has three rows of hanging bars!

The hall closet gets hard use for such a small space, because we don't have a mud room in the house (yet). It is so narrow that I can barely walk straight into it, but it had two rows of bars. The first row has two - high and one at knee level. The top shelf held the mitten/hat basket. And it was nearly impossible to get anything out of the closet without knocking something off the hanger or dumping the mitten basket onto your head. As a result, it looked like our closet was vomiting fleeces and mis-matched mittens.



With winter (ie mitten and boot season) upon us again, we couldn't take it any more. After a little reflection, we decided the only option was to remove all the bars, put in cubbies, and install hooks along the side.

Much better, see.


Now we even have individual mitten/hat bins!


Martha Stewart would be proud.