How To Organize Your Linen Closet

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This week, we will be organizing your linen closet, making it look fabulous, and streamlining it to simplify your life.

Today, I’ll take you step-by-step through organizing your linen closet.

Next, we will dive deeper into a few pro tips that you can use to help keep everything neat and organized long after you complete this challenge. Let’s get started!

Organizing Your Linen Closet

• Create your Keep, Toss, Donate, and Gather totes, bins, baskets, or bags to use for sorting the contents of your linen closet.

• Empty everything. A crucial part of any organizing project (as you are very familiar with at this point in the challenge) is that everything must come out! This can seem overwhelming, but trust me, the only way to truly organize a space is to clear it out and start with a clear, clean, fresh space.

• Vacuum, sweep, and wipe down all of the shelves and drawers

• Decide what you will keep. Only put items you intend to keep in this closet in the ‘keep’ bin.

• Group like items with like. You may want to skip ahead and take a look at our deep dive section of this post for some tips on how to store certain items to maximize the space in your linen closet.

• Put everything back – Group items that belong together, and then store them in your linen closet, considering how often you use each item. You want the items you use most frequently up front and easy to find and put away.

• Label, label, label. I can’t stress this enough. Labeling your containers will make putting items back into your closet a breeze and will also make them so much easier to find when you need them.

• Mark your calendar. Each year, take some time to clear out, declutter, freshen, and organize your linen closet.

I love this idea! If you don’t have an armoire or cabinet, use under-the-bed boxes to create your linen storage.

Now that you have cleaned out, decluttered, and sorted the items in your linen closet, here are some storage and organization products and ideas to help you put it all back together beautifully.

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Deep Dive: 5 Pro tips for setting up your linen closet

These pro tips will help you keep your linen closet organized all year round. You wouldn’t want all your hard work to go to waste now, would you? These organizing tips and additions will help you keep your linen closet perfectly organized.

• Add bins for bedding. Create a basket for each bedroom in your house to store the sheets and pillowcases that belong there. This makes putting laundry away a breeze and makes matching sets a no-brainer. We love these bins with these labels.

• Roll large linens if you are storing off-season or extra duvets; rolling them up like a sleeping bag instead of folding and stacking them can save you a lot of room in your linen closet. Alternatively, consider storing your extra duvets or bulkier bedspreads under the bed in a container that prevents dust.

• Toiletry Basket. Instead of letting your stock of toiletries or guest toiletries float around loose in the closet, create a bin or box to hold these items. This way, you won’t have bottles of shampoo, lotions, and skincare tipped over near your fabrics. You also won’t have to dig around in search of these smaller items when you need them,

• Rolling towels. Rolling up hand towels and washcloths and storing them in a bin, we like this one saves a ton of space and keeps everything all together.

• Tall baskets. We all need backups of items that no one really wants to look at, like toilet paper rolls and tissue boxes. Use tall bins or baskets to do double duty of holding and hiding these items.

Conclusion

Your linen closet gets a lot of use. From changing sheets to getting a fresh towel to preparing guest rooms for overnighters, you are always counting on your linen closet to hold the things you need every day. Taking the time to do this linen closet organizing challenge will give you more organization and more space in this workhorse of a closet in your home.

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