Small Closet Organization

This weekend my goal was to tackle one of our small hall closets. This closet serves two purposes. It houses Whidbey's litter box (so it has to be permanently open) as well as laundry supplies. Weird combo, I know, but we live in a 900 sq. ft. condo so we make the best with what we have. The building was built in the 1970's and some of that decade still shows in our condo, like the lovely expandable metal shelves that are not so evenly placed in this hall closet.

Goal: To make this closet functional as well as look good.

Here is the before - obviously I wasn't excited to take the before pics - sorry it's a bit fuzzy.

As you can see, it's not the best use of space. The first thing I did was remove the closet door. There was no point in keeping it if the door had to remain open. Then, I removed everything. This is my blank slate.

Lovely, rusty expandable shelves. I don't know if the person who put these in was drinking on the job but, these shelves are NOT evenly spaced. Oh well, I do not want to invest in new shelves. These may not be pretty but they work. So, to address the pretty factor I purchased some printed contact paper / drawer liner. Easy peasy. 

I didn't want to just organize what I already had in there. My goal was to make it look purposeful - not like a closet that was missing a door. I wanted matching boxes/containers. Not wanting to spend any money I took boxes being used in a storage room - dumped the contents out (and put it into a different container). I had to take out the nebulizer and humidifier but, everything else (that wasn't expired) went back in. I don't love these boxes but, they'll do until I find just the right ones. And just to be clear - yes, the size of the boxes bothers me. A lot. 

To make this project complete I would like containers that are no more than 26" across with covers. Have you seen anything like this? 

Operation: Scarf Organization

I love scarves. I have a lot of them all piled on top of each other on a tie rack in my closet. Not such a great way to organize them. I can never find the one I want to wear and, honestly, I sometimes forget that I even own some of them. It is fun to find one that I had forgotten about but, I would rather have them organized.

BEFORE (my actual closet)

So....

 I purchased shower curtain rings for $1.18 a pack. This is how it turned out.

 Oh yeah, and while I was organizing my scarves I moved over to organize my purses. 

They aren't stacked on top of each other any more!

Not only did I have scarves hanging from the tie rack I also had belts.
I just hung each belt on it's own ring. 

 I no longer have to take all of the belts off of the hook to
 find the one I want. They are hung individually.

So organized! I can see the top of the drawer unit! It used to be
 piled with scarves. I organized all of my small purses/clutches in
a shoebox size tote and the rest are stacked neatly on a wire shelf
that wasn't being used. (There are towels lining the wire shelves to
prevent damage to the purses.)

*Update*

I recently replaced the plastic shower rings with

metal rings ($8 - Target) because the plastic was

snagging some of my scarves.

It feels so good to be a little more organized. I wonder what I should tackle next?