Closet storage is a premium for most of us, but a lucky few will at one time or another be in a position to actually decide how big their closets will be. Unfortunately you may now be faced with the agonizing decision between designing many large storage areas for storing all sorts of items, or skimping on closets and mazimizing your living space.

Well, to help you with some of the decisions that you will be faced with when trying to figure out exactly how many and how large your storage areas should be, I’ve come up with a few key points to keep in mind. Making sure that your closets are functional, and not over or undersized, will end up creating an easy to live in space with a good tradeoff between living and non-living storage space.

Closets used to be just tiny little rooms with a single door, a hanging rod and a single shelf – no fancy stacked hangers or pull out shelves or compartments. The basic closet was functional, but not always convenient. And since it was given such a low priority in comparison to living space, older houses are often not equipped with as much storage space as we typically would like these days. When you have the chance to design your closets from scratch, you might want to consider larger spaces, which means you need to figure out what makes a good design for a larger storage space