I must confess I suffer from a massive Diogenes syndrome when it comes to fashion. I keep everything. I was taught since I was a little child to take care of everything I got my hands on, so it's not rare to still find on my closet pieces from my teenagehood that have been kept on almost their original condition, fairly new.

So, when it comes to organisation everything is a bit tricky. Not only I've been accumulating tons and tons of clothes during years, but also since I renewed 100% my room furnishing 2 years ago I've become more conscious not only on how much clothes I own, but also how many of those pieces I really wear on a daily basis, and most important: how I store them. Doing a closet rehab may be the best way to get into the budget fashionista path. That's why on this post, I want to show you some tips on how to start organizing your closet (bigger or smaller, walk-in or cupboard), finding space on places where it seems impossible to, and also some personal advice on how I keep my clothes stored.

#1 Dust shall be your enemy

They've been in vogue lately, but I'm not a big fan of those open "closet" spaces made out of a pair of shelves and clothing racks (as the first image above on this post). Dust is a real problem, specially when you'll find your coat covered with a thin white-grey layer when you're about to wear it. If you're lucky enough to own a walk-in closet, I suggest you to keep it door-closed and open it only those times you are going to get something from there. #2 ... so are clothes' moths

Problem added when your clothes are out of a safe, closed space. Bugs are a very serious thing which can harm and destroy your clothes, specially vintage and wool ones! Even if you keep your clothes inside a wardrobe, put some repellents. There're a large variety of both natural, non-chemical insect repellents for clothes. Seen those little green boxes on the sides of my cabinets? Those are the ones I use.

#3 Hangers should be your friends, not your enemies

To keep a nice and neat super organized closet, you must know lack of space for your clothes is not usually due to the volume of the closet per se, but usually due to all kinds of hangers which not only give the image of a poorly ordered space, but also do take off tons of space. Invest in nice quality, thinnest and strongest possible hangers. I have three different types of hangers on my closet, keeping the ones of the same type as close as possible (as it is divided on different cabinets): wood ones (for blazers and jackets. Mostly items that do require a bit more of support), white plastic ones (I almost buy them in bulk) for lighter jackets and dresses, and those metallic with two pegs for skirts and folded dresses. #4 Divide and conquer

I keep my clothes organised on a very rare and complicated system which consists on, not only organising by type of item (blazers with blazers and jackets, close to the blazers) but inside every category, by color/pattern and season. It's tricky, and sometimes a bit random (there are some pieces suitable for both winter/summer, some pieces of clothing that do not correspond with their next...) but it's the one that works for me best.

#5 Who said "lost spaces"?
#6 Seen clothes, owned clothes

Have you ever felt that you have nothing to wear because you absolutely lost conscious on where it's placed? It happened with my shoes some time ago, but that feeling ended when I invested on those see-through shoe boxes which are close to be divine creation.