What Are The Best Strategies For Organising Your Wardrobe?

The best reason to design your own fitted wardrobe using our online design tools is to build a wardrobe not only around your room but also around your needs.

There are countless methods to organise a wardrobe, from wardrobe editing to snowball decluttering to having one wardrobe for each main purpose or type of garment you have, but which is right for you?

Ultimately, your wardrobe should fit your lifestyle and personality, and our wide range of styles, interior layouts, finishes, colour schemes and designs will help you with both, whilst our online designer lets you tweak and try different options.

The problem, perhaps, is too much choice for external design choices and internal design options, but here are some tried and tested tactics for organising your wardrobe, and some top design tips to make the extra dedicated space you have work for you.

Should You Organise Your Wardrobe By Colour?

Organising a wardrobe can be difficult at times because the best wardrobes carefully balance practical necessity with visual appeal, and the right wardrobe for you will be simple to organise, visually pleasing and easy to pick out exactly what you want.

Because of this, a popular and fairly straightforward method to organise your clothes by colour first, either using the colour spectrum from red to purple, light colours to dark ones, or any system you prefer, such as sorting by favourite to least favourite colour.

The only downside to simply organising by colour is that you often will have many different types of clothes that need to be stored in various ways of the same colour. 

It might not make too much sense to sort blue shirts and blue skirts in the same place, depending on how you like your clothes to be organised.

This requires a versatile internal storage system for each wardrobe based on the clothes you already have, which would include not only deluxe hanging rails, but also trouser racks, shoe racks and shelves to fit a variety of clothes. 

The right wardrobe can make it possible, and our design tool will help you make the right wardrobe for you.

Should You Organise Your Wardrobe By Type?

The most popular way to organise a wardrobe is by putting each type of garment in its own separate section, and then sorting them out further by colour or popularity.

There are various ways to sort this, and exactly which is best will depend on the clothes you like to wear, but here are some ways to sort your different clothing types:

• Shirts, sorted by colour or level of formality on a long hanging or double shelf hanging rail using conventional premium hangers.
• Skirts, sorted by length, colour or pattern on a double hanging rail using clip hangers.
• Trousers, sorted by colour on a pull-out trouser rack.
• Jackets, sorted by colour or paired with a matching set of trousers if they form a suit, typically on a long-hanging or double shelf hanging wardrobe.
• Dresses, sorted by length on a long hanging wardrobe.

Bespoke wardrobes are perfect for this, as you can tailor the inside section to include suitable railings, drawers or shelves for each type of clothing, and our design tool will enable you to choose the right amount of storage for the right amount of clothes..

Should You Organise Your Wardrobe By Function?

Alternatively, particularly if you have a relatively large collection of workwear or formal dress, it can be best to suit your clothes by function rather than necessarily by type of clothes, setting up outfits for every type of occasion.

Whilst everyone has their own lifestyle, this could potentially include:

• A formalwear wardrobe consisting of a full-sized rail for suits and full-length dresses.
• A half-sized rail and set of drawers for workwear, with the ability to hang work trousers and shirts up whilst having drawers for delicates.
• A casual wardrobe with plenty of drawers for t-shirts, athleisure clothes, jeans, comfortable trousers, skirts and anything you wear every day or around the house.
• A costume wardrobe with all of the pieces you wear on a night out, whether that is to a restaurant or to a rock concert.

Our bespoke design tool will help you maximise the amount of storage space you have and give you the option to sort clothing by occasion.

Which Way Should Your Clothes Face In A Wardrobe?

In one sense, it should not matter which direction your clothes hangers face as long as it looks right and feels easy to use, but the best way to ensure both is based on your dominant hand.

If you are right-handed, like 90 per cent of the world’s population, make sure that your clothes face to the left, and if you are left-handed, make sure they face to the right. Our wardrobes have bisecting doors so you can open them easily with either hand.

As you naturally reach out first with your dominant hand, the item will face your way when you pick it out, meaning that you do not need to flip it around, and you know exactly what it is at a glance.

Should You Give The Most Space To Your Most Worn Items?

If you have outfits or types of outfits that you wear most commonly, group them together, ideally in a separate wardrobe from everything else.

Be sure to cycle these regularly worn clothes out as the season changes or your tastes change, and choose the perfect wardrobe design with our online tools to ensure that this wardrobe stands out distinctly from the rest.