Closet makeover 2

Lately I have been in a spring cleaning mood. I've been trying to get rid of things and clean up and reorganize. (Although someone, Mom, not to name names, Mom, keeps bringing me stuff.) I decided to start with something I look at every day. We have a closet under our stairs that first served as an all purpose junk area. Things that we hardly use like suitcases, sleeping bags, etc. were thrown in there. It was also the coat closet, but the coat rack went across the closet so you had to go through the coats to get anything out of the closet. It was rather useless.

When Littlebit was a baby I was annoyed with the toys spread around the living room and the messy closet, so Lovey helped me move everything out of the closet. Big Daddy came home to a huge mess. This was my plan because I told him I wouldn't move anything back into the closet until it could be organized. We put up shelves on one wall to hold the toys and cut the bar for the coats and made it into two and put it an alcove on the side. He was skeptical that it would work because of the size of the closet, but was pleased after it was completed.

This has worked well until recently. Now I have two kids who play in there and a kid throws his backpack in there because it doesn't have a place to go. I also store in there most of the art supplies and a lot of Disney moves on VHS that Nana has left at our house, so I needed to clean it out. That is what we did yesterday. During quiet time and while the kids played outside I completely emptied the closet, vacuumed, and rearranged everything. I hung hooks up on the side opposite the shelves so Lovey's backpack, Leappad backpack and firefighter hats have a home. I took some of the bins from my craft room (which I will tackle next) and resorted the toys. I tried to get rid of a few, but I was caught. I'm pretty pleased with my results.

This is what the closet looks like from the doorway. It is sort of an awkward space.
Here are the coats and shoes. The adult coats are up above. Big Daddy made the shoe rack.
The toys are organized and put in bins for now. The games the kids can get to are on a shelf and the art supplies are on a shelf the can't reach next to the coats and scarves. The vacuum usually sits under the game shelf.
The hooks are the 3M removable hooks and they work pretty well for holding up the backpacks and hats.

I'm pleased with how it turned out and ready to tackle my next project.