I followed this advice. Now I have two closets and I have laid them out identically.
They are a mile apart, so if I'm inside one and want to get something from the other, it takes forever.
There's no way to quickly discover if my wife has added clean clothes to the closet I'm not in. She only tells me at dinnertime.
My closet manufacturer sold me the pair of closets for just a little more than twice what a single one cost, but a four-closet setup was ten times the price and a three-closet variant was not available. They told me there was an eight-closet setup too, but nobody really knew how to use it effectively.
Each closet has a cubbyhole which is always open and super accessible. It is large enough for one single sock. I complained about this and was offered to replace all my socks with more expensive ones that take half the space but barely cover my ankles.
The next larger compartment is big enough for one whole outfit, but not in the wintertime. Sometimes at night if I have nothing to do I will fill it with the outfit I want to wear the next day. By the next morning there's a decent chance I'll have changed my mind, but that's OK, it only cost me a few calories.
There's a larger door I can open which has a few outfits in it. I use this pretty often, but the damper on the door is super-stiff and it takes quite a while to pry it open. And if one of my siblings also wants to use it, I have to wait. Ten years ago I lived by myself, but now the house is pretty crowded and we don't have space for more closets.
Finally there's a huge area in the back that I can walk into and get anything I want. The distance to get there is about as long as a football field. Once in a while something I stored there gets damaged, but there's just so much stuff that I probably won't notice. I have no idea how they fit this thing in my house; those closet guys are geniuses.
They are a mile apart, so if I'm inside one and want to get something from the other, it takes forever.
There's no way to quickly discover if my wife has added clean clothes to the closet I'm not in. She only tells me at dinnertime.
My closet manufacturer sold me the pair of closets for just a little more than twice what a single one cost, but a four-closet setup was ten times the price and a three-closet variant was not available. They told me there was an eight-closet setup too, but nobody really knew how to use it effectively.
Each closet has a cubbyhole which is always open and super accessible. It is large enough for one single sock. I complained about this and was offered to replace all my socks with more expensive ones that take half the space but barely cover my ankles.
The next larger compartment is big enough for one whole outfit, but not in the wintertime. Sometimes at night if I have nothing to do I will fill it with the outfit I want to wear the next day. By the next morning there's a decent chance I'll have changed my mind, but that's OK, it only cost me a few calories.
There's a larger door I can open which has a few outfits in it. I use this pretty often, but the damper on the door is super-stiff and it takes quite a while to pry it open. And if one of my siblings also wants to use it, I have to wait. Ten years ago I lived by myself, but now the house is pretty crowded and we don't have space for more closets.
Finally there's a huge area in the back that I can walk into and get anything I want. The distance to get there is about as long as a football field. Once in a while something I stored there gets damaged, but there's just so much stuff that I probably won't notice. I have no idea how they fit this thing in my house; those closet guys are geniuses.