I think this time we’ll start with the after photos. Because seriously, you won’t believe me when you see the before photos. This week I had the opportunity to work with a fun client who wanted to get a couple of closets de-cluttered. She knew what had to be done, she just needed some encouragement and help to get from here to there.

We only took pictures of one of the closets. This was the second one we did so we were feeling pretty good about ourselves, already having successfully cleared out quite a bit from the foyer closet. When we were finished with this closet, the rod had only four suits hanging on it. My client took three dresses of hers and put them in her bedroom closet because there was space for them.

Are you ready for the before pictures? Ok, here we go.

Yep. That closet was full of clothes. Everything except husband’s four suits and wife’s three dresses (mentioned earlier) was either donated to a family member (who takes items to consignment for sale) or to Goodwill.

Let’s take a close up look at that top shelf. It’s really, really, really deep.

It’s kind of difficult to see but this closet goes back about four feet because it’s above a staircase to the basement. We had to stand on a chair and use a curtain rod to hook items in the back and pull them to the front to get everything out.

In order to keep items from meandering to the back of the closet again, she’s going to have her husband attach a board to the shelf perpendicularly behind the items we put back. This will not allow anything to be pushed back beyond the length of her wrapping paper supplies box.

So, what do you think? Pretty cool, eh? I must admit, I felt really good about this project from start to finish. I hope my client did, too!