Make it happen on your budget

To create a closet that works on a budget, consider implementing these five hallmarks of a high-end closet — which can be done for a fraction of the cost:

Add lighting

For clients who can’t afford a closet chandelier — yes, that is a thing — Leslie Haber, owner of Los Angeles-based An Organized Life, suggests inexpensive clamp-on lights attached to an upper shelf or bar. “A few lights make all the difference.”

Create a “staging area”

High-end closets provide a staging area for assembling outfits. For the rest of us? A chair, and some nearby hooks can suffice, Haber said.

Be shelf-ish

Shelves in a closet are nonnegotiable, said April Knox, certified professional organizer and owner of True Organizing in Los Angeles. If you don’t have one, DIY one. Knox has two in her own closet. “Put out-of-season clothes up there in baskets … and things you don’t use all the time.”

Up and away

Your shoes? “Get them up off the floor,” Knox said. If you have them organized, either in a shoe caddy or clear plastic bins, you can easily find what you are looking for.

Structuring style

Dramatically expand the hanging space with walletfriendly double hang closet rods. They attach to and hang below your existing rods.