Dresser drawers provide a convenient place to store clothing in your bedroom. However, all too often they become unusable due to poor maintenance. Disorganization can also lead you to leave clothing anywhere but in the drawers. Get the most from your dresser drawers by taking care of them and organizing their contents. Does this Spark an idea?
Drawer Care
Drawers can sometimes stick. Tighten the screws on the glide and the rail it runs in, if the drawer has a metal glide on the bottom. Straighten any twists or bends that you find in the metal parts. If the drawer has a wood slide, lubricate it with wax to make it slide more smoothly.
Tighten screws on the drawer pulls regularly, about once a season. Most pulls screw on inside the drawer, but some are affixed completely to the front of the drawer. Look for replacements for broken or stripped out drawer pulls at home improvement stores.
Put the heaviest clothing in the bottom drawers, especially if the dresser is taller than it is wide. This keeps the dresser from tipping over.
Leave at least 1/2 inch of space above the clothes in a dresser drawer. If you fill them too full, the drawers may be damaged, as well as the clothing.
Put shelf liner paper in the bottoms of drawers to prevent the clothes from catching on rough places in the wood. If you do not have paper made specifically for shelf liner, use old Christmas or birthday wrapping paper in the same way. Cut the paper to fit the bottom of the drawer.
Drawer Organization
Remove all the clothing from your dresser drawers, the top of your dresser, baskets of clean laundry, and anywhere else you have stashed it. Pile it in the middle of your bed.
Take out all the clothing that you want to get rid of and put it in bags to send to charity. Take all the clothing for other seasons of the year and put them in storage. If you do not have a special closet or extra dresser to store them in, put them in storage bags or boxes under the bed.
Sort the remaining clothing according to type. For summer clothing, you might put shorts, tops, t-shirts, jeans, pajamas, socks and underwear in separate piles. Look over your piles and estimate how much drawer space you will need for each one. If you have small drawers, you might need two for jeans and one for shorts.
Fold all the items in each pile and load them into the dresser drawers. To maintain the new organization, always sort your clothing into the same piles as you fold it. Put it away right then. Procrastination leads to messy dresser tops and overloaded, disorganized drawers.
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