Even shoe-box-size closets can welcome a decorative detail or two. The trick is to uncover pieces that will work well and look even better. We've rounded up everything from quirky busts to over-the-door accessories to help you curate your dream closet – no walk-ins necessary.
Even though some of her clientele includes celebrities with extravagant wardrobes, LA Closet Design CEO and designer Lisa Adams believes that any closet should be a natural extension of the home. "The closet is where we most often spend the first and last moments of a day, and unfortunately, at those times many of us deal with universal closet issues like cluttered, overstuffed and unorganized spaces. Instead, I look at both your room — and your life — and then I create a space of peace, beauty and even glamour," says Lisa. Placing equal weight on function and aesthetics, Lisa's designs cleverly combine efficiency while encouraging a sort of leisurely, celebratory, dressing ritual most of us dream of having. Keep reading to see some of LA Closet Design's covet-worthy closets and tips for replicating the look.
My coat closet is stuffed to overflowing, but thanks to designer Stefania Nicolosa's brilliant new double hanger design, Benvenuto, I may have an excuse to make another handbag purchase. Instead of stuffing bags onto a shelf in your closet, you can hang them neatly from the inverted hanger on the bottom of the Benvenuto.
And while I can perfectly imagine this easing the overstuffed nature of my home closet, I can also see it making a major splash at coat checks in clubs and restaurants. It would simplify life for all of the coat checkers out there, and also help to ensure that your bag doesn't get misplaced when you hit the dance floor.
The designer, Stefania Nicolosi, studied industrial design at the Politecnico in Milan and at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Currently, she collaborates as an exhibition designer with the company Iniciativas y Exposiciones in Madrid.
Could you find a place for this hanger at your home? While it's not on the market yet, I can see it selling well.
On the next episode of Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny must decide whether the renovations for her new home will mean making her husband give up his man cave to make room for her closet. You can guess which room wins out — and it's not her hubby's. Personally, I'm not sure which way I'd go with this decision either. Closet space is a major issue in most homes, and the idea of having a spacious closet dedicated to my clothes and accessories alone is quite tempting.
That said, a man cave is an increasingly coveted feature for the man of the house. In previous decades, the man cave was a garage or basement, but condo and apartment living means these spaces are no longer available. So tell me, would you sacrifice your man's cave to make room for an amazing closet space?
>> Outgoing Barneys Fashion Director Amanda Brooks is known for her impeccable style, and the organizational system that helps her achieve it is, well, heavenly.
In a recent interview for The Aesthete, Brooks explained to stylist Annabel Tollman that her closets are organized so that she's always closest to what she wants to wear at the moment. When things go out of rotation, they get farther away from her main wardrobe — and when she doesn't wear a garment at all, it might end up in a version of wardrobe hell. Brooks elaborates:
". . . I have a main closet built into my bedroom that is my current clothing. At the end of the season, if I haven't worn something for a while I have a secondary closet in my bathroom; off-season on one side and then purgatory on the other. If things are in purgatory for a year or two and haven't been worn, then pieces go to the basement, which is the equivalent of hell, or they get given away. I have moods for things in the closet, and sometimes I regret giving things away. I'll find myself schlepping down to the basement and digging through the boxes to find a piece. The things I consider friends are the ones that never leave my main closet."
Brooks didn't speak to her decision to leave Barneys, which she announced last Thursday. But although her job is changing, she told Tollman her style will likely remain the same.
"I return to the '70s more than everything else; classic, and a little bit groovy. A little shrunken stripe with a cap sleeve, some oversize sunglasses, maybe a little flare on my jeans, the bamboo-handled Gucci bag. It suits my body; no boobs, lean hips . . . I feel like some people have a taste for one decade and a body for another. But for me my body and heart are both ’70s, so it's pretty straightforward. I'm a very contemporary creature."
One item on most homeowners' wish lists is more space for storage and organization. Instead of adding it piecemeal, imagine a home built for organization from the very beginning. That's exactly what Closet Factory did when it built a custom home in the form of the Closet Factory Hampton Roads "Treasure Chest – The Organization Home" in Suffolk, VA.
The house, sponsored by Closet Factory and built by Joey Corp., won the Tidewater Builders Association’s Fall Homearama Critics’ Choice best Home in Show gold awards. Curious as to how and why it won? Feast your eyes on all of the gorgeous organizing solutions when you keep clicking.
When I'm dreaming modestly, my thoughts wander towards a clean closet, but when I'm dreaming big, I imagine something like this dressing room. 
The standout detail in this dressing room, of course, is that beautiful clawfoot bathtub. It provides the perfect place for a lady of leisure to primp before a night out on the town, while deciding what pair of heels to slip on.
While it's definitely not the most practical of placements — I'd worry about water damage to the rugs, as well as humidity levels — it's the kind of decadent, quirky decision that makes a house a home. And in this case, I'd dare to say it's a home of a fashionista.
