Grand Diane

Surprise! I’m planning a trip to Portland late next month and am opening up my books now. I’m prioritizing larger jobs so get in touch quickly if you want a room or closet, etc. DM or email me and as always sliding scale rated.

How to Give Good Closet 4: Iterate. The last and final step in doing a closet (or any space really) is to iterate on your original design until everything is put away and the design is as intuitive and beautiful as you can make it. As I continued to dial in this closet I added another pink crystal to the altar and a photograph of me that my boyfriend keeps to the wall above his stuff. I generally hate overhead lighting and there are no outlets in the closet so I also added a color change bulb and now I can have pink lighting in the club. I decided to hang my bf’s hats on the wall above his bucket system so in order to preserve some space on that level I moved his harnesses down to the bottom row freeing up some line of sight for…absolutely nothing. This is another hiding in plain sight trick I use where I will really pack things in as much as I can in one part so I can burn real estate and leave open space somewhere else. This gives the overall illusion that the space is much bigger than it is, and by giving groupings room to breathe I am also giving my eyes a chance to be drawn to the most beautiful and decorative elements of the space and not just inundating my senses with a seamless wall of stuff. This is best exemplified in the third picture where I have removed a couple of pairs of overflow shoes from next to my purse altar so that even though it is surrounded on all sides by literal piles of stuff it still makes an independent and striking visual.

In the same way that I divided the room into a top and bottom I also divided the room into a “hidden” and “line of sight” and a his section and hers section. Like organizing smaller and more specific piles, making these distinctions in spaces will guide your placement and allow the closet to tell you what the best solution might be. On the door I created what people in the industry very unsexily call a “dump zone” and placed my every day purse, a couple seasonal pieces (in this case hoodies), a robe my boyfriend likes a lot, etc. as an easy to load/pickup space. Final thoughts in the comments…