Netizen left a message and asked, "The closet is too small and there are too many clothes, what should I do?" This problem is probably the same for all women, after all, no woman would complain about the size of the closet. Today, I will provide a solution to free up your closet and make the narrow space in the closet three or four times larger!

I think the ideal wardrobe should be like this:

1. All clothes are clothes that I like and wear frequently;

2. All the clothes can be seen at a glance, and you can take out any piece you want immediately .

The key words to solve the first problem are, throw, throw, throw ;

The key words to solve the second problem are " erect up, erect up, erect up ."

Below we explain this solution in four steps.

fling

Whether it is the heart-pounding method or the practical method, I think the following categories of clothes basically need to be thrown away.

It’s painful to throw away clothes, but it also reminds you to buy suitable clothes next time. At the same time, the process of throwing away clothes is also a process of summarizing: clothes that you keep buying but never wear may not be suitable for you, and clothes that you like and wear often may be your true love.

Of course, if you want to make the best use of your old clothes, you can donate them to children in need.

Or you can exchange it for some useful daily necessities that you can use. There is a link at the end of the article!

2. Reallocate storage space

Of course, it is easier to find clothes if they are hung up, but if there are too many clothes, stacking them is much more storage than hanging them up . The " stack " here means to stack the clothes "standing up". How to " stand up" is explained in detail later.

Let's hang up the clothes that must be hung first, such as:

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Now that the clothes that need to be hung have been hung up, what should we do with the rest? The answer is, put them upright !

There are two advantages of standing upright:

First, save space. Look at this picture drawn by Vanke designer Lu Wei;

Second, it is clear at a glance and you can pick whichever one you want.

And taking out what you want will not affect the formation of other clothes.

If you stack them up like this, you know the consequences. If you take out the lower one, it will easily mess up the upper one.

After talking about standing up for so long, how exactly do clothes stand up? There are many pictures below as a warning, so please pay attention.

How to fold a T-shirt

Long-sleeved T-shirt

is too fast, can't you see it clearly? Let's watch it in slow motion

shirt

shorts

Slow Motion

trousers

skirt

Jumpsuit

How to fold irregular clothes

In short, the final result is to fold the clothes into small squares with '∧' on the sides, so that the clothes can stand upright.

After folding the clothes, put them vertically into the drawer, and you will get the effect as shown in the picture below. It is clear at a glance.

The cubes formed by folding autumn and winter clothes are high, so they are placed in high drawers. The cubes formed by folding spring and summer clothes are low, so they are placed in low drawers.

The folding methods of quilt covers, bed sheets and pillowcases are simple, and I won’t go into details.

You may have the following questions during operation.

Question 1: What should I do if the drawer is too wide?

Answer: Use a divider.

As shown below

You can buy a drawer divider on Taobao

You can also DIY it yourself with cardboard, it’s up to you.

As shown below. (This picture comes from Lu Wei's book "Small Home, Getting Bigger as You Live In")

Question 2: What should I do if the wardrobe has no drawers or there are not enough drawers?

A: There is no drawer making a drawer.

The easy but expensive way is to buy plastic drawers for storage. The picture below is the famous Tianma drawer, which comes in a variety of sizes, but it is expensive~~

In addition to the folding area, drawers can also be placed under the hanging area.

A cost-effective but time-consuming method is to DIY the drawers yourself.

The first step is to install the partition board.

Use partitions to separate cabinets that are too high, such as the one shown in the picture below.

You can also use this.

I bought something similar to the one in the picture below, which was said to be nail-free, but it kept falling off, so I finally had to put screws in it.

If you don't want to hammer nails into the cabinet, you can use this.

The partition is completed. The second step is to add an ordinary storage box and a drawer will be enough.

You can find all kinds of storage boxes on Taobao, non-woven, transparent, rattan, as long as they are stiff. If you really want to save costs, you can also get milk boxes, express boxes, moon cake boxes and other packaging boxes, as shown below.

If you want to make it look more beautiful, you can wrap it with wrapping paper. As long as all the boxes are wrapped in the same way, the style of your wardrobe will also be unified.

3. Classification and labeling

Now you have countless clothes and countless storage drawers, but which clothes are in which drawer? If you want to further improve the efficiency of finding clothes, you need to classify the clothes.

For example, you can divide them by category: one drawer for short-sleeved T-shirts, one drawer for long-sleeved T-shirts, one drawer for long pants, and one drawer for skirts;

You can also divide them by frequency: one drawer for those you wear often, and one drawer for those you don’t wear often;

You can also divide it by date of use: one drawer for weekdays and one drawer for weekends.

The classification principle is up to you, as long as you can find it yourself. The coarseness of the classification depends on the number of clothes.

Then, in case you forget the classification principles when you are looking for clothes, I often do this, you can put labels on the boxes to remind yourself. You can use words or pictures as you like.

4. Storage Principles

Finally, when placing drawers in the closet, remember our storage principles: determine the storage location based on frequency of use and weight.

Frequently worn clothes should be placed where they can be reached without having to raise your hands or lower your head, as shown in the picture, usually in the green area, and can be taken out directly.

The blue area, which requires you to raise your hands and bend down to reach, can be used to place clothes that are used less frequently. Because it is a drawer, you can take out the entire drawer to look for clothes.

You need a stool to reach the bedding area where out-of-season clothes are usually placed.

After the above steps one, two, and three, you already have a clean wardrobe, but if you want to keep it clean, you still need to maintain and adjust it during use. If you don't fold the clothes after washing them, and just throw them into the closet at random, no storage method will work. This is laziness and needs to be treated. If you find that the classification does not conform to your usage habits during use, you need to adjust it in time.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that if you have old clothes that need to be thrown away, you might as well try to exchange them for some daily necessities that you need.

Click on the picture to recycle old clothes

Exchange for 10+ daily necessities

It's great that your useless old clothes will shine somewhere else and help those in need!