Ahhh...much better!

Remember how I said I was on a little organizing kick? Well, I tackled our coat closet last Friday. It was one of those places in the house that every time I opened the door, it bothered me. But I just never made the time to fix it. Here's the before...
And after a quick trip to Tar-jay {for a desperately needed shoe rack and new coat hangers} and about 30 minutes of organizing the clutter, I present to you the the after...drum roll, please.....
I realized a large part of the reason why our closet looked like a hot mess before was because we had about 50 different kinds of hangers in there...it looks so much better now with uniform hangers! Not to mention, several of the hangers had broken under the weight of some of our heavier coats. As I was taking some of the coats off of the old hangers to put them on the new hangers, I discovered that my hubby had found yet another use for his beloved duct tape--he had duct taped 2 broken hangers together to make one functioning hanger. Classy, huh?? :) Another thing I added was a few baskets/containers at the top of the closet to make it easier to find the things we store in here. The bin on the left houses all of our sports paraphernalia, the basket in the middle has all of our hats/gloves/scarves (which we haven't yet used since we moved to Biloxi), and the pink container on the right has our sunscreen/lotions. Now that I'm thinking about it, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to keep your sunscreen in the same place with all of your winter wear...but where are you supposed to keep sunscreen?! But I am pleased to say that our closet is now functioning so much better for us, and I'm not scared to open the door anymore! :)

I am linking up to IHeart Organizing today..stop on by to see more simple/quick updates you can do around your house!