35 Walk In Closet Ideas for a Fashionable Home
Carrie Bradshaw would approve.
Feeling inspired to revamp your closet? Or maybe you just upgraded to the walk in wardrobe of your dreams and need a little design inspiration to bring it to its full potential? We're highlighting 35 impeccable walk in closet ideas from our favorite interior designers, so both you and your clothes are in the best of hands.
To make your walk in closet look good, we recommend treating it like any other room in your house and infusing it with personality. Whether that's a bold paint color, wallpaper, fresh flowers—you spend a lot of time in your closet, so shouldn't it be a nice place to hang out? While a custom walk in closet can cost $10,000 or more, there are a number of cost-effective swaps you can do to make the room feel (and look) more organized. Changing out all of your wire hangers for matching nonslip ones and storing scarves and hats in chic matching baskets are great projects to start with.
Some basic rules before you start: Lisa Adams, CEO of LA Closet Design, advises that you "keep everything organized by category and color, similar to the way you would find clothing items displayed in a boutique." Translation? Don’t go stuffing purses in a drawer—set them out on open shelves and surfaces. "If you see everything you have, you'll wear everything," Adams points out. Ergo, no more losing clothes in your own closet. Genius! Keep scrolling to see the walk in closet ideas designers use to create stylish and functional spaces, and jot down your favorite layouts, storage solutions, and color palettes.
Hadley Mendelsohn is the co-host and executive producer of the podcast Dark House. When she's not busy writing about interiors, you can find her scouring vintage stores, reading, researching ghost stories, or stumbling about because she probably lost her glasses again. Along with interior design, she writes about everything from travel to entertainment, beauty, social issues, relationships, fashion, food, and on very special occasions, witches, ghosts, and other Halloween haunts. Her work has also been published in MyDomaine, Who What Wear, Man Repeller, Matches Fashion, Byrdie, and more.
Kate McGregor is House Beautiful’s SEO Editor. She has covered everything from curated decor round-ups and shopping guides, to glimpses into the home lives of inspiring creatives, for publications such as ELLE Decor, Domino, and Architectural Digest’s Clever.
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