Downsizing The Chic Way By Living In Style With Less
In today's throw-away consumer lifestyle, many are making the switch to living with less but doing so with style
. It's not necessary to live like a pauper in order to downsize. In fact, clearing away the clutter may help you define and refine your wardrobe and belongings in a way that gives you more freedom and the ability to choose higher-quality fashion wear.
Our most cluttered areas are often closets. Begin with your personal closet and literally pull everything out. Make three piles for things worth keeping, worth selling and worth donating. It's time for brutal honesty. That pair of jeans two sizes ago or the clunky shoes from 1996 need to go. The rule of thumb from most professional organizers is that if the item has not been worn in the last year (six months for warm and cold seasons each), it needs to go. Resale shops are a great choice for clothes that you've outgrown but may be the perfect "it" outfit for someone else. These businesses give you the opportunity to make some extra cash on your clothes, or provide you with in-store credit to add to your own collection (just be very purposeful before making more purchases). Your clothes can also help a local donation center. Some even will come to your house or apartment to pick up your donations.
Closet space cleared out, now it's time to carefully think about organizing your existing belongings. Approach this step by thinking through your lifestyle. Individuals who spend most of their work week in professional clothing will want to place those items in the most accessible part of the closet. Other things to consider are colors, sleeve and pant lengths, and season.
Fortunately, closet design has come a long way in recent years. For most of our parents and grandparents, a closet was defined as that tiny space in a bedroom with a pole and a shelf. Today's closet kits and organizers are created for maximum customization, making organization an almost effortless task. These options provide even greater customization to fit individual needs and lifestyles. Hanging shelves, canvas bins, garment bags and more allow you to not only organize items more efficiently, it may actually help you gain more space in your closet. Some systems create additional vertical hanging height, doubling storage space and providing uninterrupted room to hang garments.
Womens shoes can be a huge space waster in many closets. Unfortunately, they not only take up space, but their improper storage can cause greater wear and tear on the life of your favorite womens footwear. With the right organization, you may discover that pair of shoes that have been lost for the last six months, as well as additional space.
To get your shoe craze under control, gather all the pairs from around the house into one place. As you sort through them, discard those that are beyond repair or ones you no longer need. Place the womens footwear into groups, separating by frequency of use, color and seasons. Keep only those shoes you truly love and will wear. After assessing how many pairs will be kept, shop for shoe organizers. These especially capitalize on the vertical space in your closet.
Place current favorites right in the front and center. Out-of-season and special occasion womens footwear can be stored in their boxes, on higher shelves with a picture of each pair taped to the outside of the box. Boots can be stored on the floor with shoe trees tucked inside.
A revolutionary space-saving idea in womens footwear that also capitalizes on style is interchangeable shoes. Specifically created for women's sandals, interchangeable shoes are created with a base sole and interchangeable straps that change the look of the sandal in a few clicks. For those who love the look of a strappy sandal but are tired of purchasing multiple pairs for various outfits, interchangeable shoes are an ideal choice.
With a choice of various fashionable straps that will now match every outfit in your closet, interchangeable shoes are also a huge space saving idea. Capitalizing on the idea that less is more, interchangeable shoes are all you need for warm-summer fashions. From casual to dressy, these stylish womens footwear utilize a patented technology for fastening stylish straps to the base sole, and then releasing the strap to change the look instantly. Bringing a whole new meaning to less is more, interchangeable shoes are not only a great way to downsize, but the chic new way to bring versatile style to your favorite summer outfits.
by: Kara Knapp
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