Your Showcase Closet:

1. Remember to transfer garments from their old hangers to the new ones as you return items to the closet.

2. Keep in mind the old adage: If you can't see it, you won't wear it!

3. Return hanging garments to their new home first. Start with separates, working with one clothing type at a time (e.g. short sleeve shirts or casual vs. formal), from light to dark colors. Depending upon whether you are left or right-handed and whether you prefer your hangers facing left or right, put away one section at a time of clothing from left to right or vice versa.

4. Begin with the garments you wear most frequently. Hang your most frequently worn garments by type (ie: dressy blouses) in the most accessible section usually nearest the door. Then begin putting away your remaining items in order of what is used less and less frequently, working your way towards the most inaccessible parts of your closet.

5. Separate women's suits. Fashions allow for a wide-array of mixing and matching. Keep tops and bottoms separate so you can see new mix 'n' match possibilities.

6. Hang your pants above your shirts. Not only is there more room to store shoes or sweaters on the shelf between upper and lower hanging, but pants don't stick out away from the hangers like blouses, so it's easier to see what's hanging on the bottom rack.

7. If you can't slide your hangers back and forth easily on the pole after putting everything away, you have too many items in your closet. Remove any out-of-season garments or less frequently worn clothing still in your closet so your regular wardrobe can stay organized.

8. Be careful hanging items that shed next to fuzz magnets. Your white angora top may leave lots of hairs all over your black velvet pull-on.

9. Consider mounting a hook just inside your closet door (or on a free wall) for your bathrobe. Robes are space-eaters and usually worn far more often than many dresses.

10. Consider putting these garments on shelves: sweaters, t-shirts, turtlenecks and other knits, blue jeans, and formal wear made with sequins or other heavy materials, and those items that may stretch out-of-shape if hung.

11. Once you have re-hung all your garments in your new closet system, begin putting away the most important shelving items next, starting with the most accessible shelves. If shoes are your big thing, put them away next. If you wear jeans frequently, find them a home on the shelves next. Put away the most important items first, the remainder will fill in the empty, available spaces.

12. Undoubtedly you and your closet designer decided before installation how and where you would store your shoes. Like your garments, you can organize them by color and type, dressy or casual. You can store them with toes or heels facing front. If you must use boxes, ensure they are well labeled. Best of all, shoe cubbies are adjustable to accommodate a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

13. Everything needs a home: Ties belong on a tie rack, belts on belt rack, lingerie in a drawer, purses on a shelf, and jewelry belongs in a box or in an organized jewelry drawer.