Your Teen Will Fall in Love With Their Custom Closet With These Tips

Adam Bender | May 03, 2023

Teenagers have a lot of things to store in their closets, and creating a custom closet for your teen gives them more storage possibilities and helps them learn to organize and keep their own space neat during a crucial stage in their development. Will your teenager be excited to use their new storage space? They probably will if it’s visually appealing and easy to use.

There are some things you can do to make a custom closet more appealing and useful to your teen:

Double The Hanging Space
Make Room for Accessories
Install Cubbies for More Storage
Consider a Closet App

Take a look at some of the ways you can help ensure your teen adores their custom closet.

Double The Hanging Space

Teens often have a lot of clothes. Your teenager may have school uniforms to store in addition to their own clothes. They may have uniforms for work or certain extracurricular activities. They’re also in a stage of development where they’re trying to pin down their preferred style, and they may go through a lot of clothes as they experiment with different kinds of looks.

Giving them more space to store all their clothes can only help, and there’s an easy way to do that. Installing an extra hanging rod will double their available hanging space. Move the current rod up and install another one beneath it, so they have a top and bottom rod. If they have a large walk-in closet, you may just need to install a new rod in a section of the closet that doesn’t currently have one.

Make Room for Accessories

If there’s anything your teen has more of than clothes, it’s probably accessories for their outfits. In order for your teen to keep their room neat and plan outfits successfully, they need space to store those accessories. A custom closet that makes space for all their jewelry, belts, scarves, hair items, and other accessories will be very useful to your teen.

If your teen has a lot of jewelry, you should consider a jewelry organizer that will help them keep their items straight and prevent pieces from getting lost or becoming tangled together or damaged. Belt and scarf racks can keep these items off the floor and prevent them from taking up a lot of surface space, as well as making them easy for your teen to sort through. An over-the-door organizer contains separate pockets that allow them to store any number of things, from socks to barrettes.

Install Cubbies for More Storage

Your teen probably has non-clothing items that need to go somewhere, and the closet is as good a space as any. Instead of cluttering up shelf space and other surfaces with notebooks, purses, keepsakes, books, makeup, and other items, give them a set of cubbies they can use for all the odds and ends that teens accumulate in their rooms.

Teens can also use cubbies for shoe storage. This gets their shoes off the closet floor and keeps them safe and sorted into matching pairs. You can install stackable storage cubes that allow your teen to have as many different cubby spaces as they need if they fit in the closet.

Consider a Closet App

If your teen is much like their peer group, they probably spend plenty of time on their phone. Why not bring their custom closet to their phone? StyleDegree gives three examples of some of the closet organization and outfit planning apps that are available in app stores, along with an explanation of their pros and cons. You and your teen can locate others that may match their needs better if none of those options appeal to them.

Why would you want your teen to have a closet organization app? The features include things like wardrobe insights that tell you what gets worn the most and least, outfit suggestions, shopping guides, and capsule wardrobe guides. This helps your teen take control of their closet and gives them information they can use about what it might be time to get rid of and how to use what they have to their best advantage.

Conclusion

Creating a custom closet for your teen can be a worthwhile project that they’ll be grateful for. Increase their hanging space, make sure they have room for accessories, get the most out of cubbies, and help them learn how to use phone apps to optimize their wardrobe and closet.