And now I imagine you are opening your closet door several times a day and gazing in :) Enjoy!

sounds great--and I for one would LOVE to see a photo. (and I am pretty sure I am not the only one:)

Bpathome, there actually isn't a door. I was thinking orignally we would add a door to mirror the toilet area door but now I'm having to reconsider. It seems so much more spacious and tidy that's it's nice to look at. Yes though to your comment. I just find myself walking in an gazing.

I thought my DH would think I'd totally lost it, when I asked him to take pics of our closet. I guess he realizes I'm a lost cause and said sure.

I've recently lost a lot of weight (55#) so I'm still working on increasing my pants but I have plenty of space to add more. I will have boxes above and below the pant area for various items ...

For once, I think I finally have more tops then my DH has (his is on top and mine are the lower). My shoes are neatly tucked between the two levels. I thought of switching our shirts around to give me more space for shoes but it looked to messy.

This last pic is the one side that is the least noticed. All these things were where the pants now hang. It visually was an eyesore. Now we hardly notice it.

I'm going to need to label the "bins" and get some more before they are recycled but for the most part, it's all done and looking good.

Looks great!

I'm a little jealous, I'm currently in the messy stage of cleaning up a few areas. Definitely appreciate the tidy look!

WOW>..and 55 # !!! Whoa you are NOT increasing your pants LOL...you are definitely decreasing !! Your organizational skills are top notch ! c

Thanks for sharing my excitement. I think it's fun in life to find the joy in the small things in life, especially since we have much more of those.

Yes Trailrunner I guess technically you're correct :)

We went to IKEA last night looking for various things one being nice storage bins. I love the size (and price) of the xerox boxes but my DH does not. We couldn't find anything that would fit as nicely into the shelving (not shown) on the one wall. That alone was discouraging but also the pricing.

Does anyone else think IKEA is on the expensive side for what you get? The containers are typically cheaper at Big Lots, Walmart etc. and the stores are much closer. That said we did find some curtain rods that were about 1/4 of the price of HD. We needed an angle for our bedroom rods and we found IKEA's version would fit perfectly. Their were numerous end pieces (finnials?) to choose from.

Looks awesome. I'm jealous.

How did you lose the weight? Looks like tiny clothes :-)

The closet looks great (and congratulations on your weight loss). I have one question - why did you decide to devote so much "height" to hanging slacks, rather than using hangars where the pants fold over, like these?

Here is a link that might be useful:

Looks fantastic!!! Such a great result from all of your hard work!!:)

Very well done indeed! :)

I also just converted to the pant hangers that aloha uses. No matter what type of hanger I used to fold pants over, there was always a crease in them when I didn't wear them regularly.

Wow, looking good. I am more impressed by the weight loss. Love those pants hangers. Where do you get them? I always use the kind with two pinchy things and hang them by the waist.

Aloha did you see these storage containers at IKEA? Not sure if the size will work for you but the price is good - $14.99 for a 3-pack.

My DD has them on the top shelf of her closet to store hats, scarves, purses, etc. She also has a good selection of the tiny ones in the nursery to organize newborn baby girl's clothes. They are awesome for that purpose. It is so cute to see those little leggings, onesies, sleepers, etc so neatly arranged.

Here is a link that might be useful: IKEA SKUBB boxes.

Red Lover (love your name). I changed jobs & schedules about 18 months ago allowing me what I consider a normal schedule. I was able to get into an good exercise routine (1 hour Mon-Fri) and cut down on so much eating. I vowed to lose it nice, slow and steady. If I had a treat, I'd have a bite or two. I lost the 1st 50# over about 10 months. Loving summer fruits, I decided to just maintain. I'm getting back into loosing my final 15#. I'm now working out during my breaks at work for 45 minutes over the day, and cutting down to around 1200 calories. I'm guessing the rest should be off sometime around summer 2014. I'm down to a size 4. Before I said I was a one size stretch all. I would never buy form fitting clothes, so I truly don't know how large I had gotten.

SJhockeyfan - for some reason I can't click on your link. I have problems at times though I didn't for Tuesday 2008. We've been using these kind of pant hangers for years when my DH had a ton of dress pants for work and I don't know why. I do know that though it takes up more vertical space, it takes up less horizontal space. I had placed a few pants to the side that were out of season, or weren't quite fitting and folded them over a hanger. I noticed them after I took these pics and replaced them. They seem to bunch up over a hanger and crowd other clothes. It works for us.

Dedtired the ones on the right are so old, I really can't remember where I got them, I guessing Wally World (Walmart). They no longer carry that particular style but now sell the ones on the left. I want to get some more pant hangers like those to match. I think in part our closet looks tidy because of the uniformity of hangers. We've got a few oddball hangers left but most match.

Tuesday_2008 - I didn't see those at the store. If we were to use that size, we'd have even more boxes yet (I don't know if I have 14 categories as it is), plus they are too small for the bins we have (not shown).