Organizing Tips from a Hollywood Dream Closet

How do you design for a high visual effects practitioner that has worked on films like Titanic, X-men Origins: Wolverine, 300, Knight and Day, 2012 and Avatar? By paying careful attention to lighting and details! Closet designer Lisa Adams was tasked with producing a space that not only could shop and showcase the clothes and accessories at the simplest manner imaginable, but would also home this keen-eyed customer’s Ferrari equipment, his assortment of Jordans along with his wife’s clothes and accessories. “Obviously, most of us can only dream about a selection of Ferrari equipment and Jordans,” Adams says,”but the general take-away is that most of us DO have collectibles that we would like stored/displayed in our closets!”

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Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

Adams strikes a pose in her completed job. While this cupboard, coming in at 220 square feet, is to get a lot of us bigger than our first/second/current apartments, there is a lot we could learn from this clothes-storage fantasy.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

A peek into the cupboard reveals off one of Adams’ top philosophies in regards to closet design: feign your cupboard is a boutique and product it as such. From this viewpoint, it looks like a swank Beverly Hills store where a private tailor awaits.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

The materials used in crafting the cupboard are a mixture of wenge cabinets and aluminum drawers, aluminum base detailing, broad thick shelves, touch latches for the cubbies to get a minimal appearance, and also U-shaped custom hanging rods.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

Some of Adams’ favourite components: Lighted hanging rods, L-shaped corner rods, S-shaped shelves, a pull-out pant rack, and also the open/closed door cubbies over the aluminum agency of drawers.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

Here are the lighted hanging rods in action.” Re-creating natural light is vital,” Adams says. “I’d suggest a combination of ceiling lights like recessed can lighting, a ceiling fixture/chandelier, and shelf/rod lighting (low voltage LED lights). We had this lighting system wired switches — all with working skills. I am a huge lover of dimmers! With it, you can make mood lighting, turn on certain lights in the closets without having all of the lights on, and above all, you have sufficient lighting to see everything in your closet — sufficient to see that the gap between black and navy blue in an instant!”

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

Adams loves to integrate spaces within a cupboard for activities such as ironing, dressing, and primping. “In a dream cupboard, it is your refuge,” she says. So dressing, relaxing, putting on makeup and accessorizing here are par for the course.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

For many of us limited to a tiny pole-and-shelf cupboard, Adams recommends buying shelf dividers; drawer baskets or bins; belt, tie, and/or scarf hangers, shoe drawers, and boards for hanging jewelry.

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

When it comes to keeping a cupboard organized following a big cleanout,”incorporate a separate lining on your laundry drawer/basket for donations and purges,” Adams says. “That way, donating/purging becomes part of your normal routine. If something doesn’t match, is out of style, or comes with an unsalvageable blot, then throw it into your donating/purging lining. On your next dry-cleaning run, take the things to your cleaners to have them contribute for you (many cleaners will). The more you make this procedure a portion of your normal pattern, the less it will accumulate and become a daunting chore!”

Lisa Adams, LA Closet Design

All appropriate, bye-bye fantasy closet, you manly and well-lit miracle of wenge you! Thanks so much to Lisa Adams for sharing her job and hints with us now. Now for many of you, feel a sense of accomplishment from a tiny organizational undertaking, and proceed put that donate/purge bag in your cupboard at the moment.

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