It is the middle of Spring here in England, and over the last few weeks I have started to prepare my wardrobe for the warm and sunny days ahead.
I don't keep all of my clothes in my wardrobe, instead I have spilt my wardrobe in two - Spring/Summer clothes and Autumn/Winter clothes.
Clothes for the current season are stored in my wardrobe, and the out of season clothes are stored away in a suitcase under my bed.
Last winter in England was one of the coldest on record and when the weather started to turn warm a few weeks ago, I couldn't wait to pull out the suitcase from under my bed and start to unpack all my lovely light Spring/Summer clothes. It was just like Christmas as I rediscovered summer clothes I had forgotten about over the long winter months.
I gladly packed all my winter clothes away into the suitcase, and started to fill my wardrobe with my light, bright Spring/Summer clothes.
As I unpacked my clothes, I also tried many on to make sure they still fitted, which thankfully they did and checked to see if anything needed repairing - which they didn't.
I store my clothes in my wardrobe in a really simple way.
I have a rail and two shelves in my wardrobe. On the rail I have hung my three summer dresses, and then all my summer tops, grouping together t-shirts, long sleeve tops, blouses and cardigans. On the shelves, I folded my summer skirts and stored them on one shelf, and on the other shelf I have stored my shorts, summer trousers and jeans.
I have a rail and two shelves in my wardrobe. On the rail I have hung my three summer dresses, and then all my summer tops, grouping together t-shirts, long sleeve tops, blouses and cardigans. On the shelves, I folded my summer skirts and stored them on one shelf, and on the other shelf I have stored my shorts, summer trousers and jeans.
On the rail I also have a long fabric shoe organiser.
Storing my clothes in this way makes getting dressed in the morning easy. I simply open my wardrobe, choose which bottom I would like to wear that day and then choose a top from the rail.
If I want to wear a dress, they are all stored together and if I need a cardigan to wear over the top, it is easy to choose one as they are all hung together.
When I have put all my clothes away into the wardrobe, I then carry out a review of my clothes to see if there are any gaps.
I've always had trouble storing my off-season clothes in a minimalist way, and I like the suitcase under the bed idea! Its easy to access, as opposed to putting everything in a storage tub in the basement. I live in Colorado, where we will literally have a day that is 65-degrees (F) in January, and the next day get slammed with a blizzard! Its difficult to plan for those sorts of weather-swings, but I guess that's what I get for living in such a crazy state!
ReplyDeleteAdrienne,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked my suitcase under the bed idea.
It does make my life a lot easier.
Your weather in Colorado sounds interesting.
In the UK, usually in Spring the weather goes a bit hay wire too, one day hot, the next cold so I sometimes have to dig some jumpers out of the suitcase for a few days until the weather has settled down a bit.