The Great Closet Overhaul of 2009!!!

I was reading on a friends blog about getting organized and it REALLY inspired me! It's been one of my resolutions this year. Although I'm embarrassed to post these before pics of my pantry and closet, I love the end result -so it's worth it! Hopefully it will serve the greater good and inspire others out there to do the same! :D

My closet ended up being the beginning "project" that truly exploded into a bigger construction zone! The top shelf was ALWAYS a disaster zone before!(As you can see!) The piles constantly ended up merging together and reaching the ceiling making it IMPOSSIBLE to find ANYTHING! Which added to me being late ALL the time! ( another resolution I'm working on FYI! :D) I finally had an epiphany to just add a second shelf, making the 2 foot shelf into TWO 1 foot shelves! BRILLIANT!!!!- Why it took me TWO YEARS to figure that out... I don't know! I enlisted my crew and we got to work! Of course, with ANY project- SOMETHING has to go wrong! For us- We spent two days painting the shelves the WRONG color!... I know it's just a closet- But it really bugged me! We fixed that then everything else went pretty smoothly. Enjoy a slideshow of the process:

HEEEEEEEERE'S THE AFTER SHOTS!!!

I'm trying an new organizational "trick" to help out for next years spring cleaning.... We'll see if it works. I saw it on a home make over show- once you're organized, you hang all your hangers backwards. As you wear and re-hang your clothes up, (hopefully after washing them! :D), you place the hangers on the rod the correct way. After a year, you know what you haven't worn because the hanger is still facing backwards. NEAT, HUH!

I loved how the closet turned out that it SNOWBALLED into ALL of the other closets! It took us about 2 months, but WE FINALLY DID IT! Out with the old!!! Which meant BRINGING IN THE NEW... SHOPPING TRIP! HOLLA! HA! HA! :D