Don’t Underestimate the Power of Good Lighting in Your Closet

FREEPORT, N.Y. - April 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Despite your best efforts, your closets seem impossible to use.  You might purge them regularly, but you still find yourself digging through clutter in dark corners to find things you’ve lost, or you continually buy items at the grocery store and later find that you already had several of the same items in the back of your pantry.  Whether it’s your bedroom closet, your hall closet, or your pantry, one thing that can make it a little easier to see your belongings is good lighting.

There are several ways you can enhance the lighting in your closets.  Here are a few ideas to get you started:

- Install a jazzy light fixture to make you feel like a celebrity in your walk-in closet.  A well-designed lighting fixture, especially a chandelier, makes the closet seem like an important room in the house and therefore worth the time to keep organized.

- Install a door operated lighting switch so that a brightly lighted closet greets you as you open the door.  Make sure the light is bright enough to illuminate back corners where clutter tends to accumulate and get forgotten.

- Lighting installed under shelves is a great way to keep things visible, and it looks lovely.

- Multiply the effectiveness of your lighting with mirrors. A single mirror doubles the brightness of your existing lighting. Multiple mirrors can make a dazzling effect.

- Use appropriately positioned mirrors to draw light dark areas instead of adding a fixture. For example, you can place mirrors on the walls behind shelves to help bounce the light underneath them and better see all of your items.

Great lighting helps an effective closet, but it doesn’t take the place of a good organizing system.  If your closet doesn’t have well-designed storage, solving that problem is the first step to controlling your clutter.  Contact Custom Closets Direct to schedule a consultation for a closet organization system that works for your home in Long Island.  We can even include excellent lighting in the design!

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