Amazon's Best-Selling Item To Add Storage To Closets

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Keeping your closet organized isn't easy. Hangers get covered in layers of clothing. Shelves get completely packed with clothes, sheets, bags, and extra blankets. Then, the floor starts to fill up with loose shoes and random bins filled to the brim with out-of-season clothing. Quickly enough, your closet is a complete mess where it's impossible to find what you need. One way to add storage to your closet and bring some order to the chaos is to invest in closet shelves, but not necessarily the kind that go on the wall.

For example, Amazon's Furinno Reed closet organizer is a standalone closet organization shelf with five cubbies that can help keep your closet organized without expensive custom shelves. It's also well-reviewed on Amazon, receiving above a 4-star average rating from over a thousand reviewers. Customers frequently complimented the organizer's sturdiness and ease of assembly, though some complained that their panels looked chipped or damaged straight out of the box.

The organizer costs under $40 and measures 31.5 inches tall and 19.5 inches wide, perfectly sized to go under hanging clothes racks or closet shelves. It's only about 9 inches deep, so it can fit in walk-in closets, reach-in closets, and even smaller linen and pantry closets. In closets with enough horizontal space, you can flip the organizer on its side for a wider but shorter layout, or even stack two units on top of each other on the floor for extra storage. Each of the organizer's shelves can bear 20 pounds of weight, so you won't have to stress about overloading them.

The most straightforward way to use this shelf is to fold clothes and linens and store them in the cubes. If, however, your closet is suffering from a case of over-stuffing and you'd like to maximize your Furinno Reed organizer's effectiveness, you have options. First, you can keep handbags organized in your closet by adding adhesive wall hooks to the side of the shelving unit and hanging them there. You can also add these hooks to the top of a cube to hang small purses from, adding an extra level of storage to the shelf.  

Another option is to add organizers within the cubes. For example, Keappubest's shoe slot organizers can go into the cube to store pairs of shoes more efficiently on top of each other. You can also always go with simple bins that give you easy access to your belongings. They're perfect for loose items like socks, underwear, scarves, belts, and such — the kind of things that never really find a home in a closet and end up making it look cluttered and disorganized. Make sure to get bins that are a maximum of 9 by 9 inches so they can fit into the smaller cubes. Something like these Ebigic small storage bins would work great. You can stick with one color of storage bin, mix and match different colors for a more eclectic look, or even incorporate texture and a natural vibe with these StorageWorks wicker storage cubes.