Custom Kids' Closets Help Your Children Get Organized in 2023

Adam Bender | Dec 08, 2022

New Year’s resolutions aren’t just for adults. While anyone can resolve to improve their lives or achieve a goal at any time, the practice of resolving to change something at the dawn of a new year when many other people are doing the same can be both fun and motivating. Getting more organized can be a good goal for children. Take a look at how your kids can achieve a greater level of organization in 2023 and how custom kids’ closets can help them achieve that goal.

Help Your Child Set SMART Goals
Maximize Available Space
Bring Storage Solutions to Their Level
Make Cleaning and Purging Accessible

You can help your child set achievable goals and stick with them to achieve not just the goal itself, but also a sense of accomplishment.

Help Your Child Set SMART Goals

“Get more organized” is a concept that almost anyone of any age can use, but it’s not a specific goal. According to Active Kids, what you want is to help your child set SMART resolutions for the new year. That means their goals are: Specific, Motivating, Attainable, Relevant, and Trackable. “Get organized,” is vague. A child might more specifically resolve to keep their games put away or their clothing hung up.

A goal also has to be attainable. This can be a stumbling block for parents who sometimes forget that their children have challenges that adults don’t have. A young child who can’t reach their shelves or open their dresser drawers easily is going to have trouble keeping their clothes put away. You can help by installing a custom kids’ closet suited to your child’s needs.

The goal should be relevant. Link better organization to something your child cares about – for example, if the shelf is organized, they’ll always know where their toys are. If the closet is neat, they'll be able to find their favorite outfits. Finally, it should be trackable. Before-and-after pictures can help kids see the progress they've made.

Maximize Available Space

In order to have a more organized room, your child needs adequate space for storing clothes, shoes, toys, and anything else they have to store. A space without adequate storage options is always going to be messier because things wind up scattered on floors or surfaces when they have nowhere else to go.

Customizing your child’s closet puts unused space to use, giving your child places to put things that aren’t on the floor. Shelves, rods, dresser drawers, sliding baskets, bins, over-the-door organizers, and other storage accessories are all helpful.

Bring Storage Solutions to Their Level

Remember, if your child can’t reach the place where the toys or clothes go, they can’t be expected to put them away. That goal is not attainable. However, there’s no reason that closet elements have to stay out of your child’s reach. Adjustable rods and shelves can be used to bring hanging clothes, folded clothes, and other types of storage to meet your children where they are. Set these closet features at a height your child can comfortably reach, and putting their own clothes and toys away becomes achievable.

You don’t have to leave the closet features at these heights; that’s the beauty of adjustable features. As your child grows, the closet can grow with them. By the time they’re in their teens, the shelves and rods will be at more standard heights. While you’re at it, consider whether anything else should be changed to make the closet more child friendly. Do they need easy-to-open lightweight drawers? Cubbies for shoes? Remove the roadblocks that stand between your child and their goal with custom closet features for kids’ closets.

Make Cleaning and Purging Accessible

Often, the closet and bedroom messes come not from the things that your child should be putting away, but from the things that they shouldn’t put away and have no place to store. You don’t want them to put dirty clothes back into the dressers or onto the hangers. You also don’t want them to keep putting clothes that won’t fit them anymore back into the rotation. If your kids don’t have a good place for these items to go, though, they’ll end up scattered on the closet and bedroom floors instead.

Consider built-in hampers so they can put their soiled clothes right where they belong every time, and you don’t have to walk around their room trying to collect every piece of laundry. You may also want to put an empty basket in their closet for clothing that no longer fits. This makes it easy for them to keep outgrown clutter out of the way in their closet, and all you have to do is periodically empty the basket of outgrown clothes.

Conclusion

Getting their own space organized in 2023 is a great New Year’s resolution for children and helps them take control of their own space. A custom kids’ closet can help set them up for success at this goal.