Neu Home Closet Doubler

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If you are like many other people and live in a small apartment, you know the premium that is placed on the space in your closets.  You could install an elaborate closet organization system and increase the space greatly but you may not intend to stay in your present apartment for the long term.  A better solution may be the closet doubler from Neu Home products.  This system hangs from the existing rod in your closet and in essence adds another rod below thus doubling your hanging space.

The Neu Home Closet Doubler received a nice rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars at Amazon.  A couple of examples of the reviews are below:

     I have to share a closet with not only my husband, but my daughter as well. We live in a small two bedroom and only one bedroom has a closet. For years we've been having trouble with other closet doubler rods, they were always hard to keep in place and only had one length on it which was hard to decide whose clothes went on top and bottom because it always dragged someone's clothes.
     With this Adjustable Closet Doubler, it has saved our wardrobe. My daughters clothes go on top and I have the rod just below them, giving my clothes room to hang. Now, they don't slide around on the floor and get dusty or wrinkly. This product has just been a lifesaver! And it was so easy to put together, I thought that it was almost too easy! : )
     I recommend it anyone who is wanting more space in their closet but with low cost!


    The single most important thing you need to know about this doubler is that in order to use the top half for women's shirts/blouses, you will need to hang the rod on the bottom rung and even then, it might still be too short. I put this in my smaller single closet where it pretty much takes up the whole width. A couple things to note that I was uncertain about when I bought this:

1. Don't worry too much about the length of this, I measured my closet and it seemed several inches short of these measurements but the "hooks" that hang on your original closet rod can move about a bit.

2. This arrives in literally three pieces, the left "hook" and the right "hook," which are interchangeable, and the bottom rod. You hang the two hooks from your original closet rod and then slip the rod onto the rungs of the hooks. At first, it seems shaky but once my clothing was on it, I didn't notice it much and have no trouble taking things on and off the bars.

3. To give your bottom clothing just a bit more clearance, instead of putting your hangers inside the rectangular compartments on the bottom rod, simply hang your hangers right over the top of the bar. Hopefully you can see this in my picture that I've included vs. the stock pic.

4. Unless you are a small man, men's shirts will not fit on the original closet bar anymore even with the bottom bar hung on the last rung. To give you some idea of size, my size 0 dress shirts fit on the top bar with perhaps two inches clearance. Having said that, see #5.

5. There are eight rungs that you can adjust the bar on. Even if you can't fit your shirts on the top closet bar even with the bottom bar on the last rung, you can simply move the bottom bar higher so that you have more room on the bottom. The first several rungs are very high so you could hang the rod from one of those, giving you just a bit space on top that you could use to hang one of those wire baskets/shelves or hang other small things like hats of folded scarves etc.

6. The three pieces seem well made and durable, not too heavy or flimsy.

Overall, this was a super inexpensive way to double my closet and I highly recommend it but with the caveat that depending on your clothing length and how high your original closet bar, it might not be perfect for everyone. But with my standard apartment sized closet, it works quite well. 

If you are looking to quickly increase the space in a small closet, the Neu Home Closet Doubler may be just what the doctor ordered. 

A Closet Handbag Organizer is a Great Storage Idea

Everyone is always looking for ways to increase storage in their homes.  In a perfect world, we would simply build one giant room on to our homes that would store everything that we desire in a neat and organized fashion.  However, if your family is like mine, that room would need to be three times the size of your present home and still would fill up at some point.  Since this is a solution that is not going to happen, we must search for other means to increase our storage space such as by utilizing a closet handbag organizer.

I sometimes wonder what my wife has the most of, handbags or shoes.  It seems that every time I open the closet door in our bedroom, there are more of these items then ever before.  We have spent much time in attempting to organize her shoes in such a way that she can locate the exact pair that she needs at any given time without having to tear the entire closet apart to do so.  Well, that need has now gravitated to the storage of her handbags.  While there really are not as many of these purses as there are shoes, there are several, and I finally had to figure a way to store them.

Upon researching ways to store them neatly and have them accessible, I discovered that a closet handbag organizer was more common than I had imagined.  There are actually several choices on the market and they are priced very reasonably.  Most options available are racks or storage systems that can be utilized for handbags as well as other items and come in a variety of different ways in which they may be mounted.  They range from elastic straps with adjustable hooks, to canvas sleeves, or plastic see-through covers.  They may be mounted on the back of a door, on the wall, or some even hang from the closet rod.

No matter the exact method or system you choose to use, a closet handbag organizer is just one of several means that are available on the market today to help reduce the clutter in our homes and to become better organized.  By utilizing this, along with other features of closet organization, we can improve our lives by saving a little time and stress when we need to find that exact item that otherwise always seems to find its way to the back of the closet.