Neutralize Your Hangers
You want your clothes to be the focus of your closet, not the miss-matching hangers holding them up?
Move everything onto a white or beige velvet hanger, and this includes pants that can hang using clips. “Creating a blank canvas allows the clothing to take center stage when color coordinating.”
It’s easier to use beige for pants, blue for tops, and pink for dresses, or use beige for work clothes, blue for activewear, and pink for cocktail dresses or for fans of clear crystal hangers, tie a colored ribbon around the hook of the hanger or place a colored label in a noticeable spot on the hanger.”
This type of color coordination acts as a kind of labeling system, so you know what type of clothing goes with a specific hanger or ribbon color.
Sort clothing from left to right starting with the basics: white, cream, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green, patterned clothes, brown, grey then black. The result is a closet that looks like a rainbow.
You don’t have to use a particular color coding system, you decide which system works best for you. For example, while many people get stuck figuring out where to place items that are white, brown, grey, black and patterned, a interior decor professional came up with her own system: white before red; brown, grey and black, in that order, after violet.
“It works well to decide what color you see as dominant in a patterned clothing item and then place it with the items of that color.” she says.