How to organize deep and narrow closet

4 years ago

Hi everyone, this is my bedroom closet where I hang my clothes. I have been hanging clothes on these two rods with a ton of wasted storage space behind it.

I have a shoe organizer hanging on the door. I also have a couple of hooks on each wall that can only hold 1 sweater each.

I would highly appreciate any ideas on how to make this closet more functional and optimize the space behind the rods. Ideally, I need a new way to hang my clothes since using these rods will cover the entire storage space behind it. Thank you in advance.

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Lorraine Leroux

4 years ago

It looks like it may be under a set of stairs? What is to the left and right outside of these walls? Is it possible they are in the same room? My thought is to move the door to the long wall so you can access the areas full width instead of length.

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Moore4
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Depending on your budget, maybe you could find someone to build a pull-out, something like this?

https://www.houzz.com/photos/historic-home-interior-renovation-traditional-entry-boston-phvw-vp~56514021
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Manmeet kaur
4 years ago

Pull out carts in metal or wood, a rough sketch, to customize, not sure if storage will be enough, but maybe organized. Single or double rods with some shelves behind, on wheels. Not sure if worth the effort.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
4 years ago
This type of rod is perfect for that situation just google pullout clothes rod
everdebz
4 years ago
As Lorraine said - we were able to access the unreachable back of the closet by tearing out the right spot in the hall. It was great - the worker added closet door, and we used same closet from bathroom and hall.
bpath
4 years ago
How much do you have to hang?

I had two similarly-shaped closets once. One closet was uner a slope in the roof, but it was 4’ or 5’ wide, so there was room for hanging on one side. I added 1’-deep shelves on the other side. At the back, I put a couple of elfa drawer stacks.

The other closet was under the stairs and served as the guest closet, it was about 3’ wide. The rod stayed at the front, and at the back i again added elfa drawer stacks.

Oh, I had another closet under stairs. Probably 2.5’ wide like yours, but the door was on the side, not at the end. It was pretty hard to use. I think we just stashed stuff in there.

So, I wonder whether you can put wheeled drawer stacks and wall racks and hooks in your closet, and get a freestanding closet like from ikea for the bedroom itself? Kind of flipping the norm of a dresser/chest of drawers in the bedroom and hangers in the closet.