How to store Christmas decorations in a small apartment with one closet

How to store Christmas decorations in a small apartment with one closet

The short version

• A · top shelf: lights
• B · top shelf: ornaments
• C · flat bin on the floor

Keep holiday bins on the top shelf and a flat bin on the closet floor.

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To store Christmas decorations in a small apartment, start with the closet you already have. One closet can hold the holiday bins if each part of it has a single job: the top shelf for what you open once a year, the rod for clothes, the floor for one flat bin.

This plan sorts the decorations first, then gives each group its place in that closet.

1. Sort the decorations into three groups

   Make one group for lights and ornaments, one for soft things like stockings and table linens, and one for anything you want to keep handy, such as gift wrap. Set aside what you no longer put up.

2. Measure the top shelf, the door header and the floor space

   Measure the depth of the top shelf and the clear height from the shelf up to the ceiling. Then measure from the shelf surface up to the underside of the door header or trim. A bin has to pass under that header on its way to the shelf, so keep the smaller of those two heights as your limit.

   Last, measure the floor space under the shortest hanging clothes. Compare each number with the bin's listed size before you buy.

3. Put the once-a-year bins on the top shelf (A, B)

   Lights and ornaments go up high, because they come down once a year. Give lights one bin and ornaments another, and turn the labeled end toward you so you can read it from the floor.

4. Use one flat bin on the floor (C)

   Put the soft group in a flat bin under the shorter clothes, so you can slide it out without moving what hangs above. Put the handy group, such as gift wrap, at the front of that same bin, where you can reach it all season.