Help please! How to store clothes in this wardrobe

[Thelovecats]

Hopefully attached pic works.
We have a sort of wardrobe built into an alcove (30s house) with a hanging rail but nothing else. I need to store 2x kids clothes in it. Whatever goes in there can't be too deep (it's about 50cm deep and 110cm wide). Budget is tight. Any ideas? If possible I'd like each child to have their own side.

Either fit two rails front to back or add another rail below the existing one - this will only work until they have longer clothes though.

Put a couple of shoe racks in the bottom or a couple of low shelves for storing folded clothes.

I don't mind too much that their clothes could be hung higher up, but I need lots of space for everyday clothes - pants, socks, t shirts etc and I don't think a couple of shelves would be enough (or that the clothes would stay in a folded pile!)

Would you be able to fit two of these ikea hanging rail and wire baskets into the space? They're 65cm each wide, so wouldn't work if your space is only 110cm which I've just notice in your post. Alternatively, ikea wire basket drawers would fit side by side.

Well two rails front to back and several shelves underneath then. Undies in plastic baskets and fold the other things. You can section the shelves off with vertical dividers to make it easier to keep similar things together and neat. Or just add some shelves for baskets next to the chest of drawers in the photo.

Good idea snow girl, but the wall things are too wide as you realised,
And the wardrobe is not deep enough for the baskets...

I like the idea of vertical dividers on the shelves wowfudge

See if this might work, or this?

Ideally you want them to be able to reach their own clothes so I would put a deep shelf at the top, divided in half, for out of season and infrequently used things. Then two front to back rails - Ikea do pull out ones for their shallow Pax wardrobes that cost about £3 each. Then shelves under the clothes, without dividers if you use baskets (you'll get more in) and dividers where things are just folded.

There will need to be a gap between the lower shelves and the sill under the doors or you won't be able to reach anything, but that gap of a few inches means you can fit something like a peg board or row of hooks on the inside of each door for extra storage.

Ah, sorry I didn't consider the depth of the wardrobes.
Elfa do wire basket drawers which would fit side-by-side (45cm wide by 44cm deep)...but they're more expensive than Ikea - although there is currently 20% off at the moment.

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Have a look at the Ikea Stolmen range which should give you plenty of options - rails, shelves, drawers etc. Not sure if Ikea still sell it but there seems to be lots of it on Gumtree, Ebay and the like.

Ikea algot fixes to the wall, not the sides and you could do a 60 and a 40 cm shelves side by side with rails underneath. They also do drawers (well baskets) but they might be too deep.

There's loads of options for hooks and baskets etc too. You need to look at the buying guide online rather than the shop really, as they present it as utility storage but it's actually far more versatile. I have beautiful algot walls of books on my landing and I'm using it in my airing cupboard too.

Thanks teddy, I had a good look at the algot stuff but because of the dimensions and overhang of the bottom/sides of the wardrobe frame it would be to utilise the space efficiently i think. We're looking at using built in shelves at the bottom now instead.

I have an almost identical wardrobe, 115cm wide, and 2 boys for whom I would like to separate their wardrobes. I spent long hours searching for 2 identical drawer units, with no success. Then decided to store their toys there instead. Two Trofast units one top of each other, abt 100cm wide. The rail remains usable for hanging clothes, one side to each child. Our smalls and foldables go into 2 chest of draws in the bedroom, it could be big or small depending on the space you have.

Put a tall shelf unit in the centre with baskets in, as drawers.
On both sides or one side put hanging bars, top and bottom, fixed between the unit and the wall

Hanging canvas shelves? Or even a canvas wardrobe might fit in the space?

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