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How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet

Last Modified: March 17, 2025 Sabrina Quairoli This blog uses cookies. It also has affiliate links. We earn sponsored content income.

We all have a closet that holds all the coats for the entire family. When you are looking for a particular jacket, shuffling through tons of coats that are not yours. Getting frustrated, you pull the next coat, and as you place it on, you realize it wasn’t yours. Today, I am showing you a simple and easy way to organize family coats to save you time and frustration.

How to Organize the Coats in a Coat Closet for the Entire Family?

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  • Before and After

Below is what the coat closet looked liked before I did this simple change. As you can see, all the coats were about the same size, so it wasn't easy to distinguish which one was a particular person's coat. Because our kids are young adults now, there was only a size difference between all our coats.

How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet

Supplies needed

Wooden hangers (Affiliate Link) (same type) - preferably one hanger per coat.
Thin Washi Tape (Affiliate Link) comes in a variety of colors. I picked four colors for our family: Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red.
That's it!

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Instructions

First, pick the colors that each family member wants. We chose blue for my husband, green for my son, yellow for my daughter, and red for me. I preferred pink, but red was fine.

Then, I took a strip of washi tape (Affiliate Link) and pulled out one of the coat hangers. I used the washi tape (Affiliate Link) in that color for whoever's coat was on the hanger.

The next step was to wrap the washi tape (Affiliate Link) around the stem of the hanger hook. It was far enough above the coat that the coat didn't hide it.

Wrap the washi tape around hanger top

Reveal

Then, I worked through all the hangers/coats. It took me about 1 hour or so to do all the jackets in the coat closet. And this is what it looked like after I was finished.

How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet

NOTE: after I did this project, I purchased more wooden hangers (Affiliate Link) since I was short. I also purchased some shoulder covers for the out-of-season coats.

Before and After

Below is the before-and-after photo. You can easily see how this little change made a huge difference. Now, I can quickly and easily pull out my coat and no one else's jacket. Yay!

How to Easily Organize Family Coats in a Coat Closet

Now it is your turn! Would you try this project in our coat closet? How do you organize your family's jacket in your closet? Feel free to leave responses below. I would love to hear from you.

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