22 Ways to Arrange Your Shelves - Part 3

A simple arrangement of classics has the order and stateliness of a library.

Style a bookcase with unexpected items, like an eye-catching antique or a porcelain statue.

Ordinary items collected in glass jars make an arresting still-life.

Organizing a colorful collection of found objects makes an offbeat (and inexpensive) alternative to wall art.

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22 Ways to Arrange Your Shelves - Part 2

Imagine living room shelves as display space for your favorite books, photographs, and family heirlooms.

Give bathroom shelves an organized look by grouping together like-colored towels.

Use labeled boxes to house odds and ends without a home.

Shelve items by type―pots on one level, books on another―for a systematic look to your kitchen.

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22 Ways to Arrange Your Shelves

Find inspiration for your own shelves and bookcases in these great photos. Use empty picture frames to create visually striking geometric patterns against a wall.

A cleverly arranged bookcase can be as pretty as a window view.

Borrow a trick from interior designers: Inside a bookcase, use paint that’s a couple shades deeper than the room color.

For maximum pop, try arranging the shelves with solid-colored items, like white ironwork or a vibrant vase.

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Design Your Dream Closet - Part 5

After: Makeup at the Ready

A foldaway vanity holds (and hides) cosmetics and a battery-powered lighted mirror without taking up floor space. When closed, the unit (sold as a laptop desk) is just eight inches deep and looks neat and crisp. Jewelry is draped above; scarves hang on a clever mod rack. Even sunglasses have a home.

To buy: Laptop workstation, $60, ikea.com. Home vanity lighted mirror, $29, conair.com. Jewelry organizer, $35, belledangles.com. Komplement hanger (holding scarves), $8, ikea.com for stores.

After: Pants Condensed

Mia used to have each pair on a separate hanger; this slim rack holds four pairs at once. Clear bins protect special shoes and evening bags.

To buy: Pant hanger, $13, and shirt hangers, $8 for three: oxo.com. Drop-front shoe boxes, $8 each, organizedliving.com.

After: Accessories Contained

Crocheted throws that once tumbled from the top of the closet are tucked away. Belts and gloves are neatly coiled in labeled boxes—out of sight but available.

To buy: Our Bold Box in white, $15, containerstore.com. Semikolon boxes in black-and-white stripes, $28 each, organize.com.

After: Work Shoes in Reach

Open cubbies make it easy to see options on a busy morning and kick pairs into place at night.

To buy: Twelve-pair shoe organizer, $38, containerstore.com.

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Design Your Dream Closet - Part 4

Unearthing the Inner Dressing Room

Mia Pollard’s bedroom closet in Brooklyn was packed so tight, she could barely wedge in another hanger. “The rod was starting to bend—I was afraid it would snap,” says Mia. Purging came first, then shifting a few pieces to her dresser. Finally, zones were crafted for clothes, purses, shoes, accessories, and makeup.

Before: Crammed With Clothes

Sweaters, dresses, and tops were crammed together (many hadn’t been worn in years). Shoes were piled on the floor—some loose, some in boxes—and purses teetered on top of the footwear. Sweaters overflowed from bins. Dry-cleaner bags (which can trap fumes and harm clothes) made it hard to see what was what.

After: Neat Nooks

Starting fresh included white paint, cream rug tiles, and a new aluminum bar. Bulky shoe boxes were ditched. Now Mia’s most used pairs stay in floor cubbies, while dressier options live in clear boxes up top (they hinge open in front). Mia used to put on makeup while standing at her mirrored doors; a new wall-mounted vanity is a more comfortable place to primp. The white storage ottoman, which conceals workout clothes, tucks under the vanity but blends in with Mia’s decor if left out. The room doesn’t get much natural light, so a battery-powered spotlight mounted under the upper shelf lets Mia distinguish her black pants from her navy ones.

To buy (from top): Rite Lite Wireless 9-LED Tri-Accent light, $17, amazon.com. Lewis storage cube, $209, potterybarn.com. Flor Rake Me Over carpet squares in bone, $17 each, flor.com.

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Design Your Dream Closet - Part 3

After: Bright Laundry Baskets

Open bins in can’t-miss-it orange keep the parental battle cry (“Pick that up!”) to a minimum. An unused closet bar works as a hamper holder (the bar lifts up, and the tub slides off) and reminds the boys that there’s a place for those dirty towels. A previously unused outlet in the closet allows a wall-mounted lamp to shed light on a stack of books.

To buy: TubTrugs in orange, $16 each, tubtrugs.com. Kvart spotlight, $7, ikea.com for stores. Display-It corkboard rail, $25, pbteen.com. Piegato One magnetic wall shelf in orange, $160, sleekidentity.com.

After: Play Things Off the Floor

Once scattered everywhere, the baseball cards are now kept in labeled blue binders behind door number two. Sweatshirts are tossed into a tub (no folding necessary), and magazines and DVDs sit in a drawer.

To buy: Better binders, $15.50 each, staples.com. Besta bench on casters, from $85, ikea.com for stores.

After: A Spot for Schoolbags

A mesh rack offers deep, roomy storage for knapsacks. The inside door of the cubby gets a hoop for free throws from the bed.

To buy: Deluxe four-tier basket, $103, organize.com. SKLZ basketball hoop, $25, amazon.com.

After: Over-the-Door Storage

Even if sneakers never make it into this over-the-door catchall, Nerf balls, baseball caps, and errant shin guards just might.

To buy: Over-the-door organizer, $16.50, amazon.com. Ultraslim step stool, $140, williams-sonoma.com.

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Design Your Dream Closet - Part 2

After: Fully Loaded Caddy

A rolling cabinet gives Margaret’s kitchen drawers some relief by corralling utility objects, like scissors and hardware. The top is a convenient spot for the iron and a first-aid kit. On wheels, it can be pulled out if needed.

To buy: Mechanic’s utility cart, $120, sears.com. Three-step ultra-light step stool, $70, polder.com.

After: Dreamy Drop Zone

Instead of dumping sunglasses, mail, and keys on the table, Margaret can slip them into angled, shallow slots that keep the contents visible and easy to grab during the morning rush.

To buy: For a similar hanging bag, $20, see amazon.com.

Tricked-Out Twin Storage

Ben and Devon LePore, 10-year-old twins from Chatham, New Jersey, barely used their closets (they don’t have a lot of hanging clothes), so the spaces were cluttered with random family items. The challenge: Reclaim these storage spots for the boys, and set them up to handle kid chaos.

Before: Filled With Forgotten Items

Mom’s mementos, like the Kelly green dress Megan wore as prom queen, had taken over the left-hand closet. The right-hand space was littered with baseball cards, outgrown clothes, and old shopping bags.

After: Separation of Shirts and Skates

The boys’ clothes live in the left-hand closet—shirts on hangers, pants in lockers (to save precious rod space). The closet on the right holds books, their extensive (and now organized) baseball-card collection, and sports equipment. Orange paint freshens up the room and, with the royal blue of the lockers, pays tribute to the boys’ favorite basketball team (go Knicks!). Hangers are color-coded: blue for Devon, orange for Ben. The upper cubby, previously a no-fly zone, is fitted with boxes for winter hats and holds figurines that aren’t current favorites.

To buy (from top): Medium-size solid canvas blue bins (in cubby), $25 each, pbteen.com. Spring Collection Semikolon document box in sun yellow (in cubby), $25, containerstore.com. Primary Tubular hangers, 32 cents each, containerstore.com. Kids’ storage lockers, $93 each, stacksandstacks.com. Industrial mesh wall-mounted basket (inside left-hand closet door): Unfortunately, this item is no longer available.

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Design Your Dream Closet

Stylish solutions that will turn every chaotic storage space into an ordered haven.

Mass Hysteria to Multifunction

The entry closet in Margaret McConville’s small New York City apartment has a lot of pressure on it. “It’s the only closet outside the bedroom,” says Margaret, “so it has to handle everything from jackets to detergent to holiday stuff.”

Before: A Cluttered Catchall

With no clear division of labor here, trench coats and umbrellas shared shelf space with bike helmets and bungee cords. Bulky items in front (like a vacuum and assorted plastic storage bins) blocked access to everything else.

After: Smart and Pretty

Now one side is a utility zone for tools, cleaning products, and ironing supplies; the other is a hall closet with jackets, bags, and gym gear. (Off-season coats were moved to a garment bag in the back of Margaret’s bedroom closet.) The upper shelves hold labeled storage boxes for rarely needed items, like photos and Christmas ornaments, along with mesh baskets for things Margaret “needs to see to remember that they exist.” Painting the shelves white gives areas definition. Easy-to-apply self-adhesive wallpaper makes the closet feel polished.

To buy (from top): Cabo Storage Nest wire baskets, $25 each, organize.com. Stockholm boxes in red, $13 each, containerstore.com. Canvas low bins in slate, $29 each, westelm.com. Hangers, $30 for 50, bedbathandbeyond.com. Tacktile metal message board, $30, cb2.com. Tubelor trash can (holding umbrellas), $60, nova68.com. Tempaper Edie Gio Silver GI 016 self-adhesive wallpaper, $75 a roll, tempaperdesigns.com.

After: Surrogate Basement

In an apartment, items like camping accessories, spare wine, and china (in quilted case) have no obvious home. One solution is to place them in the upper corner of an all-purpose closet. Bottles are within reach, and a nearby stepladder offers access to the higher shelves.

To buy: Find a similar chrome wine rack, $25, at bedbathandbeyond.com. Quilted china storage set, $20, containerstore.com.

After: Luggage Corner

Let the dimensions of a nook dictate its use. Here, a roomy (and formerly empty) spot was begging to be filled with a large piece. The suitcase holds guest comforters when off duty.

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11 Bedroom Makeovers - Part 5

Before
Cold mint green walls and an overall lack of decor make for uncozy quarters in this mishmash bedroom. The furniture doesn’t match (and not in an interesting, eclectic way), the headboard is too small and cuts off part of a window, and shelves overflowing with DVDs and books give the room a garage-sale look.

After

The bed is moved to a windowless wall, where a grid of cream-colored linen panels serves as an inexpensive headboard. For a soothing feel, two walls are painted brown and two cream; lush silk draperies turn the room into a cocoon. Wall lamps eliminate the need to juggle items on nightstands, while odds and ends now reside in pretty boxes. A thick wool rug extends out on all sides of the bed, a soft landing for bare feet.

Before

The room already has a wall of storage and a cubby-filled bed, but there’s simply too much stuff and not enough space for it.

After

The first step: sorting out playthings that have been outgrown. Pull-out bins under the bed sort and hide some of the remainder, and labeled see-through tubs of toys tuck behind cute curtains in the storage unit. A roomy kids’ desk replaces a too-small table, and a pink step stool helps kids climb into bed while also stashing favorite books.

Before

Chaos reigns in a bedroom packed with children’s clutter. The walls are painted a nondescript white, while the existing lighting does little in the space.

After

Once unused belonging are packed up and donated to charity, the room seems to breathe. For a less dreary feel, the walls are painted lavender, a calming color that helps aid sleep. A soft rug replaces a rough carpet, for more comfortable playtime on the floor. Above, a nonworking ceiling fan is replaced with a sunny yellow chandelier that offer functional lighting and makes the room feel more dressed up. The old bunk beds are replaced with a set that can be converted to stand-alone beds as the children grow. Coordinated—though not matching—bedding unifies the beds.

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11 Bedroom Makeovers - Part 4

Before

The empty bedroom is an echoing cavern of overwhelming size (320 square feet with 10-foot ceilings!). The high ceilings make the low furniture look pint-size, and the plain walls need major cheering up.

After

An infusion of coral on the walls is fun and dramatic, but the white bedding and sophisticated neutral-toned furniture in classic silhouettes keep the room from veering into fun-house territory. A taller bed with a substantial headboard is in scale with the room, and a mirror above it works to draw the eye up, making the ceiling less intimidating. A celery green rug layered on top of a cushy sisal provides a splash of contrast to the coral elements, increasing the energy of the space.

Before

A haphazard mix of castoffs from friends and family bog down the bright green room. The sole reading lamp sits (out of frame) on a pine bench that serves—poorly—as a bedside table, out of reach and too low to read by. Sheer white curtains let in too much light from the street.

After

The underachieving bench is relocated in favor of a slim modular desk that doubles as a nightstand. A low, clear Lucite table replaces the too-high dresser that once sat to the right of the bed. New bed linens and cotton-lined silk taffeta drapes give the room a cosmetic lift, while a cotton rug adds a pattern to the painted floor and echoes the stripes in the drapes.

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