The Great Bedroom Organization of 2011….shoes, bags and IKEA Besta

I previously had a large number of shoe boxes on a sagging closet shelf. I complained about my lack of closet space here. The  shoes were hard to reach and I couldn’t fit even one more box into the space.  That’s when I decided to clear it out to make room for other things in the closet.  Consequently, the shoes sat on the dresser at the foot of our bed for about 4 months or so…..

I saw some ideas for shoe storage in Ikea Billy bookcases both over at the Purse Blog on their Purse Blog Forum, and also over at the I am Style-ish blog.  Since we also needed somewhere to store the bf’s shoes, the 11″ deep Billy bookcase just wouldn’t do.  We ended up getting the Ikea Besta bookcase instead, which, at 15.75″ deep, is deep enough to hold the bf’s shoes, some other storage containers and my bags. We got one 47.25″ wide one as well as a one 23 5/8″ one – just wide enough for the spot where they are supposed to go.  We haven’t gotten any doors yet, but we’re going to get the Besta Vara doors. They aren’t quite as nice looking as the many door options the Billy series has, but they will suffice.  We plan to get some decorative knobs to spice them up.

After lots of inventorying and planning, I determined we needed 21 total shelves.  The narrower one came with 4 and the wider with 8, so we needed to purchase 9 extra shelves.

I am still working on the bf’s side – he’s got quite a few shoes and other things that need to be sorted out.

The Great Bedroom Organization of 2011….ties and whatnot

Ok, for such a large amount of organizing needing to be done in that room, this is quite the miniscule project to start with – but I don’t care.  These are the bf’s ties – stored on a hanger (and also, on the coat rack)….

Fancy, huh? Among many other things, the tie situation was not ideal for me – and I really had no clue what form of storage is acceptable for ties, except for one of those super ridiculous rotating tie contraptions you get from the Sharper Image or Brookstone (also not ideal).  Saturday we were at the Nordstrom Rack and the bf finds a tie for the wedding.  The tie table was full of ties packaged like this….

So, long story short, what’s good enough for Nordstrom is good enough for me – enter Target drawer organizers….

…I also took an idea I saw in an Ikea Pax wardrobe on Sunday and got another one for the belts…

Where exactly these organizers will go – in drawers, in the closet, in the cabinets we just bought – is yet to be seen.  So thats it for now…there will be more to come!