CEDAR CLOTHES / CLOSET HANGARS

One of the best closet ideas to keep things fresh is to use cedar. Insects and moths don't like cedar and yet they smell is very pleasant to humans. This make it a great wood to have in and around your closets.

Cedar also does a good job of absorbing moisture and odors. When you have cedar in your closet, it will eliminate that musty closet smell and replace it with the natural clean fragrance of cedar wood. It's the perfect choice for all your closets.

There are several ways to incorporate cedar including totally building and designing your closets out of it, just using cedar in some of the parts of your closet, or using cedar hangars. Most people don't have the money to rebuild their whole closet out of cedar wood and so the obvious choice is to use cedar hangars.

Cedar hangers are light and strong which allows them to keep their form for many years. When the cedar smell diminishes, all you have to do is to lightly sandpaper them to expose new wood and the fresh cedar smell will come right back again. If you don't want to replace all your old hangers with new ones, you can buy inexpensive cedar rings to put on your hangars that will do the same job.

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SOME NEW HOMES HAVE CLOSETS THAT ARE TOO BIG!

My husband and I have been looking at new houses lately now that the prices have come down. One thing I noticed is that a fair number of new houses are being built with bigger closets than in years past. In fact, sometimes they are too big!

The popularity of custom closets has spawned many different companies you can hire to come to your house and install them. If you go to home shows you will always see exhibits from different local and national closet companies. The industry has really become mainstream in the last 10 to 15 years and closet design ideas are hot.

This has obviously prompted some home builders to design their homes with bigger closets. But what I have seen in the open houses I have gone to is that often times the master closets and bedroom closets are what I think to be too big. A nice sized closet is great but a really big one is just a waste of space for me. I would rather have that space put into making the rooms bigger.

New homes today are often built with lots of tiny rooms. I would rather have less rooms in a house and have each room be bigger. Likewise, I don't need huge walk in closets that are big enough to put a sofa....please use that space to make the rooms bigger. Huge closets are convenient but ultimately you don't get to live and evnjoy that space so medium sized closets are what I am looking for.