How to Organize a Closet - Master Bedroom

Where to put everything and how to keep it organized is an ongoing question throughout our house. Before I got married many knew me for my extremely organized closet as the clothes were organized by color and item. Today though, I tend to find myself pulling out my hair while pacing around in circles. Why you may ask? Beside the fact that our house has teeny tiny closets, I also had to venture back to those kindergarten years to re-learn how to play nice with Alex and ultimately how to share. Laugh all you want but when you marry your opposite in terms of their organizational likes and dislikes it's enough to make this girl break down in tears... I place 99.9% of the blame on my hormones rather than my OCD of course!

After a day of going through all the closets within the house and figuring out just how much stuff Alex we have, we realized this wouldn't be a quick fix. Organizing closets can be approached in a couple ways depending on the space you have. First we wrote down each room that we wanted to organize and from there we listed the different storage options we have available.
  

Getting Started

In terms of our master bedroom, we have two dressers in our room that should hold some clothes but right now they are holding a lot of bathroom products since the bathrooms in our house lack any storage capabilities. Because of that, most everything we own in terms of clothing has to be hung up in our closets. Though our closet is somewhat long the problem lies with the little black holes that have sprouted on the far ends. For me personally this was a huge problem because a lot of my clothes got trapped in this space and it was hard to get anything out. In our closet the left half has all of my clothes while the right half has all of Alex's Navy uniforms and between the two of use there was no room in between. We also have a long shelf above the closet rod and this space used to hold some shirts and shorts for Alex but we soon realized that the space wasn't appropriate as piles of clothing came falling down on a daily basis.
  

Organizing the Closet

The first step we took in organizing the closet was to pull everything out and donate anything that wasn't being worn. Once we did that we then made sure that all the hangers were the same size and color to help balance everything out. We were fortunate that we had the help of my mom because she found some great storage systems at Marshalls that worked perfectly for this space. She sent us a 10 shelf system typically used for shoes as well as a 6 shelf system that we are using to store all of Alex's works hats along with some uniform accessories. The last part of organizing our master closet was to make a DIY hanging pant rod for my side. Literally taking but 10 minutes to create and only $3 to make, I was able to hang all of my pants below my shirts giving our clothes some more breathing space.
  

The Result...

The first picture to the left is my side of the closet with my shirts ontop and pants on the DIY hanging rod below. I also used the 10 shelf for a couple of my everyday shoes, sandals and slipplers along with my belts in the lower three. The second picture to the right is Alex side of the closet with all of his Navy uniforms. We also used the entire 6 shelf to store his PT gear in the first two shelves, his uniform accessories in the black basket and his work hats below. We still have the entire shelf above the closet rod to use but we want to buy a couple baskets before putting anything up there again. A mess full of clothes in the face is never fun!