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.
