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Article content Ready to purge your closet? Make best of the challenge with Colin and Justin’s easy to follow storage guide Today’s dispatch is all about storage, but before we get into the nuts and bolts of the matter, absorb this fact: most of us use around 20 per cent of our clothes 80 per cent of the time. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Colin and Justin: Storage wars Back to video It doesn’t take a statistician to observe that the remaining four-fifths lie dormant, consuming valuable real estate. Heaven help us: whether we like it or not, we’re all hoarders. So go on: purge. Sift everything you own and delete anything you don’t need, either via on line auction (or consignment) sites, or by sending to charity stores, when retail reopens. Clutter diminished, you’ll have a brighter and more glorious path upon which to walk. If you’re bothered by an ominous lack of storage, perhaps ‘built-ins’ could be the answer. Or, real estate permitting, maybe an entire room could be converted into a walk-in wardrobe?

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Article content Dreamy, huh? If your requirements are smaller, that which you already have — with a light reshuffle — could suffice, if, that is, you adhere to our counsel. First things first: built-ins. If you’re a capable DIYer, you could probably assemble a simple wall to wall configuration using PAX closets from Ikea, but if you’d like to showcase ‘custom’ aesthetics, elevate everything on MDF frames, trim with baseboard and add decorative crown to suggest that a time-served cabinet maker has graced the scene. On a grander scale, today’s dressing room is the last word in indulgence. For our client, a former model, we created luxurious sartorial stabling, into which was secreted a host of psychedelic frocks and all manner of patterned ’70s and ’80s blouses that survived the ‘edit’. To drive the new look, we engaged a specialist closet supplier and agreed on the optimal footprint: a wraparound across three walls. This optimizes storage and keeps the centre of the room free for a large ottoman, which, when not occupied by that day’s fashion choices, provides handy bum space and the perfect spot upon which to enjoy a glass of bubbly. Cos that’s what Carrie Bradshaw would do, huh? Here’s our Storage 101 1. If square-footage is tight, opt for hangers that clip and hang from each other to max up accommodation. Visit Neatspace.ca and check out “Mawa Adda Clip Hangers” — $11.99 for six. Adding narrow shelves and knobs on the back of your closet doors will also amplify function.

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Article content 2. Kit out an empty closet with Rubbermaid items: the long loved storage supremoes purvey easy-to-install shelf and rail kits, and all manner of clutter taming inventory. 3. If you don’t want to look like you dressed in the dark, install lighting: Home Hardware sells screw in battery-operated lamps that come to life with a quick push. If budgets are extra tight, Dollarama have similar self-adhesive options to help you save. 4. To reduce bulk, vacuum pack off-season garb and pop under the bed: ‘seasonally adjusting’ frees up so much room. . 5. Group items according to category: this might seem a hassle, but you’ll find the sense of order liberating. 6. For occasional use (if converting an office, perhaps, into overnight guest accommodation) invest in a portable clothes rail. l7. Storage boxes that fit into wardrobes at floor level are a great way to utilize space and the ideal spot in which to ‘consume’ bulky coats or shoes. 8. Lidded trays such as Sockerbit from Ikea (which slide below beds) make lots of sense, and suffuse affordable function into otherwise dead space. Hinged fold back lids keep dust at bay to ensure your stuff stays clean. 9. If starting from scratch, and if budget permits, call upon the services of a professional closet-fitter. 10. Don’t forget old favourites like Home Depot and Lowes, for a selection of sensibly priced, freestanding wardrobes, in mod’ and trad’ styles. If you heed our guide, your 80%/20% conundrum will soon be allayed. Wouldn’t it be nice, after all, to fill your storage quarters with things you love? Rather than with an assembly of historic sartorial blunders, in which you’d never be seen dead? Hmm? Yes indeed: purge. You know it makes sense… Watch for Colin and Justin on Cabin Pressure and Great Canadian Cottages (Cottage Life TV) and on Cityline (CityTV). Find the Colin and Justin Collection in stores across Canada.

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His stone face in the photo on the front page of the Tribune the next morning reflected the gravity of the moment, the pressure he had been under from both sides and his own ambivalence. He’d campaigned and won the governor’s race the previous fall as both a supporter of capital punishment (“for particularly heinous crimes”) and a supporter of the moratorium on executions that had been put in place in 2000 by Republican Gov. George Ryan over concerns about the frequency of wrongful convictions.

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