Custom Closets Can Streamline Your Morning Routine

Doug Haines • December 8, 2022

Everyone has had that kind of morning before. Your work pants are wrinkled and need to be ironed. Your left shoe is nowhere to be found. Your kid still hasn’t gotten dressed when the school bus arrives; now you have to drive them to school. You skip breakfast because you can’t find anything to eat that you can make fast enough. Then you’re ready to leave, but where are your car keys? By the time you get to work, you’re late, stressed, and already exhausted, and you have the whole rest of the day to get through. Who could blame you for not wanting to go through that again? The good news is you don’t have to. These mornings aren’t inevitable, and custom closets and storage solutions can help you avoid them.

Keep Clothes and Shoes Neatly Organized
Teach Kids to Plan Ahead for The Next Day
Prepare Your Pantry for the Next Morning
Count on Your Mudroom For Last-Minute Items

Take a look at how custom closets can streamline your morning routine and help you avoid having disorganized mornings.

Keep Clothes and Shoes Neatly Organized

The reason that you wind up with wrinkled pants and missing shoes in the morning is probably that your closet is chaotic. You may protest that you don’t have enough room. However, if your closet had the right storage design in the first place, you’d have enough space, and keeping it neat would come more naturally.

There are a lot of simple closet organizers and products that can help here. A pants rack will allow you to hang pants neatly, preventing wrinkles, and they’ll stay in place and neat rather than winding up crumpled on the floor. Shoe organizers or shoe shelves ensure that your shoes stay in pairs, eliminating your hunt for one lost shoe. You can also use drawers, shelves, rods, and hooks to help organize and separate different types of clothes, so you always know where to look for the things you need.

Teach Kids to Plan Ahead for The Next Day

Getting out the door in the morning includes getting your children ready. Schools start early in the morning and kids who have to take the bus have to get up even earlier. This makes it difficult if your children are not natural early birds.

According to the Child Mind Institute, something that will help children of all ages and stages is to plan ahead for the next morning. Add a valet rod to a custom kid’s closet so that they can choose an outfit the night before and set it apart from their other clothes. That way, they can hop right into it in the morning. Don’t forget to install a hook for their backpack as well – they organize it the night before, hang it up, and it will be ready to grab and go in the morning.

Prepare Your Pantry for the Next Morning

How many times have you heard, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”? True or not, skipping breakfast can be a detriment to some people. Running out the door without breakfast because you don’t have the time is rarely the best way to start the day. With a more organized kitchen pantry, it might be easier to start your day off on the right foot nutritionally.

When your pantry items are organized and separated, you know right where everything is. That means that you don’t have to dig through the pantry to find coffee filters and instant oatmeal. A pantry where things are reachable and identifiable can also help your child – and yourself, if you want – pack lunches for school or work the night before.

Count on Your Mudroom For Last-Minute Items

Having trouble finding your keys on the way out the door? Well, where did you put them when you came in last night? Did you set them next to the sink, toss them on the kitchen table, or did they land on the couch when you plopped down on it to rest your tired feet? A custom mudroom can give you a dedicated place to store your keys to help you get out the door more easily.

Your custom mudroom can include spaces for all the things you’re carrying when you walk in the door. Hooks for keys, cubbies for shoes, a basket for gloves and mittens, a shelf for your purse, and so on. With a storage space placed at the entryway of your home, you won’t be tempted to shed outerwear and drop items you’re carrying at random places throughout the house. Then, the next morning, all you have to do is pick up your keys and any other items from their designated spaces.

Conclusion

Custom closets and storage solutions can give you the keys you need to unlock more relaxed and streamlined mornings. More organization all over the house leads to less stress and less scrambling in the mornings.