YYZ: Getting Sorted II

Occasionally I surf on over to coco&kelley, where I found this envy-making post about organizing a closet. 

LHR and I know what it is to live in old houses (83 years, in my case, 100+ in LHR's case) and, while I am not really a "new construction" kinda girl, I do envy my sisters who live in recently-built houses with their de rigueur walk-in closets. 

In our house, for example, my shoes live in the basement (not at all convenient), 

I have hanging stuff in a teeny closet 

(in 1926, people had one good outfit, one for working around the house and one or two for everyday wear), 

plus I have a gigantic, not-terribly-functional or space-appropriate wardrobe thing shoved in the corner of the bedroom with (literally) piles of pjs, undies, socks and t-shirts stuffed willy-nilly inside. 

Sigh.  

LHR does not have a ton of storage space, either, but she has some pretty sexy built-in wardrobes, an ingenious necklace storage idea, plus an open rolling rack and some groovy built-ins, with her shoes in (amazing!) plexiglass boxes.

 {Perhaps she will do a post in which she shows us her storage solutions. Hint.} 

Both of us are proponents of the vintage steamer trunk school of extra storage.

Here in YYZ land, the room that was, originally, going to become my walk-in closet (swoon!) 

is going to remain our (minuscule) bathroom 

(because the room that was going to be the bathroom has become our home office), 

so I have had to come to terms with the lack of adequate closet space in our house. 

(Maybe M could just keep his stuff in bins under the bed and then I could have HIS tiny closet, too....? Honey?)

So, while I have no real sympathy for the poor reader who is wondering how to make better use of her walk-in (!) closet, there are some good ideas and some inspiring photos in this story.