No Closet Solutions for Kismet Cabin!

Back in "Furniture for Kismet Cabin" I had planned to address the no closet issue by getting a wardrobe. Except, I've run into a problem... there's no space for the wardrobe.

So I pulled out all my clothes over the weekend and took a good hard look at them and how I store them (when they don't just sit in the laundry basket). The reality is that most of my clothes are folded, not hung. I thought, "If there was just some way of compressing them like those vacuum bags." I knew I wasn't going to be vacuum sealing my garment bags every time I needed to access my clothes. Then I remembered another solution... the Eagle Creek Pack-It system from Container Store!

Since I feel like I practically live out of the suitcase (or the laundry basket), why not just go ahead and take advantage of it. I had two old fruit boxes that I'd salvaged from somewhere and fit perfectly in the rolling wire rack I was planning to keep by the front door. However, all my clothes you see piled up on the rack would not fit into those two makeshift drawers. So I sorted them into piles. Yellow is work shirts. Blue is exercise/camping clothes. Green is work pants. Purple/pink is casual and sleep wear. Four piles, so I got four Eagle Creek packers, size medium... and all my clothes fit into those two drawers now! Also, having them pre-divided makes it easy to just pull one pack out rather than having to dig around.

Sorry for the poor quality of the picture!

I still have four coats that I figure I'll hang on the wall (a red wool winter coat, a velvet black blazer for work or events, a denim for casual cool days, and a rain/wind coat for exercise and camping). I was thinking about getting some fun wall hooks like these:

Buddy Hooks from Container Store

Then there are my shoes. I don't think of myself as a person who has a lot of shoes, but when trying to find space for them - the pairs start to add up. I have 2 pairs of tennis shoes, 2 pairs of work wedges, 1 pair dress shoes, 2 pairs of ballet flats, 2 pairs of sandals,  2 pairs outdoor boots, 1 pair of Renaissance Fair boots. After some Google and Pinterest searching, I found this - a CD rack that was turned into a shoe rack. It's the perfect idea.

Picture from Starr Creative

But like the wardrobe, where would I put it? Remember my bathroom without the door. Well, it just so happens that there is a perfectly sized CD tower from Ikea* that would fit on either side of the toilet along the back wall. (*Correction, the CD towers are NOT "perfectly" sized". So I'm in the process of looking for similar style that's about an inch narrower.) I plan to use the one to the right of the toilet for shoes and the one to the left for my homemade soaps!

GNEDBY Shelf Unit