Belting it out (or up)

When organizing a closet, it's great when everything has its place: clothes on hangers, shoes on shelves, necklaces on jewelry hangers and scarves (at least in my closet) hanging from a wire (I'll show this in another post).  But when it comes to belts, I just have not found a good way to deal with them.  Hang over a door mounted rack?  It bends them.  Put finishing nails in the wall and hang them?  They fall off and get into a giant mess.

While cleaning this weekend, I decided that I should use one of the IKEA wall shelves that I had left over from my apartment and hadn't been allocated for use elsewhere to create a belt hanger thingy (that really is the technical term for it).  Here are the before and afters:

Now they are all safe and contained in a much easier way than the nails.  Here's how I created it (it's really simple):

 

Once they are all screwed in, simply mount to the wall as you would with the shelf anyways and hang your belts!  This would also work well for necklaces.