| Is your kid's room lacking in floor space? With | | | | jeans, t-shirts, long sleeved shirts, sweaters and sweat |
| dressers, desks, end tables, beds and toy boxes, open | | | | suits on the smaller shelves. Items that take up more |
| space is a rare commodity. Consider opening up the | | | | room can go on the larger shelf. Getting everything out |
| space and making their rooms more inviting. Organizing | | | | of the dresser puts it where you can actually see |
| your child's room and reducing the clutter can renew | | | | everything available. You can buy wire baskets that |
| their spirits and yours. Use these tips to not only create | | | | hang down from the shelves and act as drawers for |
| space, but to help your child keep their room clean and | | | | socks and underwear. No more digging through |
| organized, while spending very little money. | | | | drawers to find their favorite outfits. Having everything |
| What you can actually accomplish depends on the | | | | visible really cuts down on messiness when it comes |
| size of your kid's closet. A good idea for a standard | | | | to your kid's clothes. Also, things that aren't ever worn |
| closet is to install a sturdy bottom shelf about three | | | | tend to stay at the bottom of the stack. It makes it a |
| feet high. Have it come almost to the closet door, but | | | | lot easier to get rid of things that no longer fit or just |
| leave room for a chair to be stored there. This will be | | | | never get worn. |
| your child's desk. They can use it for art, homework, or | | | | Next install a hanging bar below the desk. Hanging |
| small manipulative games. Install another deep shelf | | | | clothes that aren't worn every day are out of sight |
| above the desk and place a light beneath it. Push lights | | | | and are no longer the focus of the entire closet. Put |
| work well in places where you may not want to go all | | | | the most worn clothes towards the center. Store |
| out installing special lighting and switches. Avoid lamps | | | | extra blankets, sheets and coats in a bin on one side |
| with incandescent bulbs because the heat from the | | | | of the floor. You can store shoes on the other side of |
| bulb can be a real fire hazard, especially in a kid's | | | | the desk chair. Utilize hooks on the back of the door |
| closet where it can easily be knocked over, left on or | | | | for backpacks, belts, hats and other items that can be |
| unattended for long periods. | | | | hung. |
| The next step is to install three to four smaller shelves, | | | | Now that everything is in the closet, you can get rid of |
| shallower than the first two. Make these a little closer | | | | bulky dressers, desks and the chest of drawers. Your |
| together. These will be for all of their clothes. I try to | | | | child will appreciate having room to play. You'll |
| leave the biggest space at the top for storing the | | | | appreciate the ease of putting away and finding |
| entire out of season wardrobe. Make stacks of shorts, | | | | clothes. No more stuffing that dresser to the hilt! |