Help me organise DS wardrobe and clothes

[cornishone]

DS is 15. His clothes are usually all over the floor but he wants to make more of an effort.

I realise his clothing storage isn't the best.

His room is an OK size and he has a double bed.

At the moment he has a smallish wardrobe that fits in an alcove 90cm wide. Inside it are come plastics drawer towers, and one of those hanging compartment things.

Next to that (on the adjacent wall) he has a chest of drawers with 3 big drawers, which he's had since he was a baby. It's a sturdy John Lewis nursery affair.

I think he needs a new wardrobe but we can't realistically make the alcove any bigger.

We could get something built in I suppose but we don't have huge cash at the moment.

What's the most efficient way of storing his clothes which mainly consist of

• school shirts
• t shirts
• football shirts
• hoodies
• joggers
• school trousers
• jeans
• unlimited sports kit.

One of those storage ottomans? They are cheap and hold a lot of stuff, also use as seating. Sports kit, hoodies, jumpers and jeans could all fit in there.

Do the plastic drawers need to stay in the alcove? If they came out would you have 90cm of hanging rail?

If so I would hang
School shirts
Hoodies (cos a nightmare to fold)
Any other tshirts that fit

Chest of drawers
Jeans
Joggers
School trousers
And depending on space the sports kit

Plastic drawers
Underwear
PJS
Football shirts

Also check he really needs everything.

My DS is 12 and has 3 pairs of jeans, which are also worn at school.

Id say max 3 pairs of school trousers. A couple of joggers.

DS has 5 tshirts and 2 hoodies.
10 pairs of pants and 10 pairs of socks.
3 pairs of pjs.

If he wears the football shirts on a normal day then you can reduce down the number of other tshirts. Or can they double as PJs?

It does get hard as they grow and their clothes are massive!

The plastic drawers are there to use the floor space of the full height wardrobe

So there's 80cm of hanging space but nothing is full length.

Hanging hoodies up is a good shout.

He's 6ft so all his clothes are now giant size.

I think pants and socks are wasted in the top drawer of the chest of drawers.

I’d probably get rid of the plastic drawers in the wardrobe and add an additional hanging rail. The top one could have the shirts, hoodies etc, and the bottom one trousers and jeans. I’d look to getting a new chest of drawers (sell the old ones). DS1 had loads of sport kit, so he has a tall chest of drawers, with a drawer joggers, one for T-shirts, one for underwear, one for all his sports kit and another for all his other bits (hats etc)

I'd get rid of the plastic drawers and install a lower rail so doubling the hanging space, as you say he doesn't need full length.

The fd everything else kondo style and get drawer dividers to utilise it all properly.

A set of over the door hooks works for hoodies/jackets.

Should say "then fold everything kondo style"

I had an odd alcove in a bedroom and used a commercial clothing rail from Morplan (really good quality and easy to move), alongside an office metal storage cabinet, for folded items and shoes. Would something like this work in his room.

I used Ikea Boaxel in my children's closets, which already had a built in high shelf and rail below. We then screwed the uprights on the wall and then used a selection of shelves and mesh baskets which hook on to the uprights.

It's really adaptable and the shelves and baskets come in different widths including 80cm, but might recommend 60cm to preserve some hanging space on one side.

Mesh baskets for underwear and sports kits, shelves for most other things folded.

It's now really easy for them to put their own things away and everything is visible at once.

That could work @hedgehoglurker although I worry about it all being on display.

He would have to really want to be tidy!

Ah yes, mine have sliding doors, as they are built in closets that only had a rail with shelf above.

If fitting doors is not an option, perhaps a curtain or screen (like a folding room divider) could work well.

I've bought an extra rail for the wardrobe and got rid of the plastic drawers. We'll see how that works.