My bedroom closet is not deep enough for hangers. I am currently using kid hangers for my pants, but that is all that will fit. I have tried hooks, but still can't fit much in. There is a sliding door to the closet because it is so close to the bedroom door. I have clothing rack against one wall and a dresser to give my clothes a home but unfortunately I don't have much of a bedroom anymore because it is packed with furniture. I really want to hang my clothes because its easier than ironing but there is no way to do this and still have any floor space. Any suggestions?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I'd suggest putting a shallow bookshelf in your closet and using it for storage space. It sounds like the real problem however is a bedroom full of furniture. What's up with that?
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I was planning to have a closet built outside of the closet. I had an "expert" come in to tell me it was the best option, although I'm sure they just wanted business. But funds got low and my clothes were everywhere, so I bought a dresser thinking it would be a smaller solution, only to dig out a clothing rack from my storage area, so that I could hang the things that didn't fit. It works but it feels so cluttered. BTW my storage is a separate room in the back of the house, that we keep lawn/garden/off season clothes etc in. I don't want to sound like I am paying for storage somewhere.
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What about hangers with rotating heads so you can store the clothes almost parallel to the back wall? I can't imagine there are many options for hanging clothes in a closet where hangers don't fit, but this would let you hang some clothes in the space you have.
I can't really talk, I've spent a year getting my shoes out of the closet by reaching in with 1 arm, since I can't open the door all the way because my desk location forces my computer tower partly block the door.
Fortunately my office decluttering is almost done and I can take most of those clothes OUT of the tiny closet and put them where I can actually reach them.
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how about using the hangers just like "Marks & Spencer" one. You can turn the hanger head a bit, and your clothes can be put in a little oblique way.
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Oh, Parsifal, after send the post, and see you have the same thought, haha~~
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I had a place once with the same situation. I bought a lightweight utility shelf and pre-assembled most of it, forced it through the tiny door, and with the aid of yoga and a screwdriver managed to fit the remaining screws in to stabilize it. It really was the only solution possible. Then for things that had to be hung, I installed over-the-door racks. Not ideal at all, but a lot better than what was originally there.
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http://www.organize.com/hanger-cascaders.html
This is what some others have suggested -- some sort of a device that will allow you to use the hangers sideways. Another option would be to move your chest of drawers into the closet -- or use some other drawer system there -- to get rid of at least one piece of furniture on the floor.
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I tried doing it parallel in the past but could not find my clothes and it took up so much space. "Normal" sized hangers don't work well because even if I put them oblique, they get caught in the sliding doors. There is a really deceiving closet organizer in there already, that gives the impression that the closet is normal, (wish I had seen that before I bought the house) I cant figure out who made it so I can contact them. I will have to find shelving at this point, but brands like ELFA are not narrow enough to fit.
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What about removing the door. I'm assuming that the ha gers "almost" fit. Then if it bothered you to have an open closet, you could mount a curtain rod - the kind that sticks out a few inches from the wall and hang a curtain in front of the closet. We built our closeets without doors on purpose and have curtains instead. I usually leave the curtains pulled back though unless I have company coming. :-)
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I want to use curtains but my husband doesn't like the idea of not having doors. Which is funny because he's been looking at all my clothes on the clothing rack for months now, and that is definitely not better. I think your idea is ideal. I may just have to keep trying to convince him again that it is best.
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How about slatwall? You could install panels, then use short hangers or waterfall styles. Very easy to rearrange, and you can purchase holders for everything from hangers to shoes to eyeglasses.
I believe they sell these at the big box hardware stores for garage organizers, if you don't want to pay for shipping of the panels. Here's one example: http://www.spacewall.com/chrome_brackets.htm
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Aari, when we had closets like this, we installed a 3x1 board from wall to wall across the door (so it isn't attached to the door, but blocks it) and ran dowels w/regular closet dowel fasteners from the back wall to the 3x1. We ended up with 2 hangar areas the depth of the closet (just about 12"). I used one for shirts and one for pants and skirts.
A friend who values aesthetics more suggested cutting the dowels to the right length and hanging them from the ceiling with wire so there wouldn't be a big board right across the door. It sounds feasible (with good hooks in the ceiling, since they'll be heavy) but I have never tried it.
I would say, just choose *something* and do it, because once you know how much space & what kind you have, you will be able to pare down your clothes to fit.
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Ikea has for their Pax closets a hanger rack that instead of going from side to side is pulled out from the back of the closet. It's meant for the closets that are less deep than the standard appr. 60 cm ones. For some reason I can't find it now, but it's supposedly a fairly new product. Other manufacturers might have the same type of hanger rack system?
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i suspect that i would simply rip the entire closet out....get rid of a bunch of furniture...and start all over again.
rather than trying to get hangers into a closet that simply isn't built for them.twenty years ago, i rented a room that had a rail running the entire width of one wall of the room....the whole thing was a closet, i suppose.
i hung my "hanging" clothes there (way way way too much rail for my meagre collection) and put my folded stuff in wicker baskets on the floor....i couldn't afford a dresser.
and i've still got the baskets! i use them for laundry now!
with my bed at one end and my closet at the other, it looked fine.
i never considered a curtain, but i can see how that would work very nicely.Posted 1 year ago # -
If you've got two tall chests of drawers, how about running a shower rod between the two to create a hanging space?
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Remover the doors. You could mount the hanger rod in the door frame and use a folding screen just in front of the closet to block your view, also possibly providing some over the screen hook space as well for nightgowns or belts. On the front of the screen, hang a few pictures.
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