Last Updated on November 21, 2025 by SierraLivingConcepts

The famous Japanese organizing consultant Marie Kondo said, “A messy room is a messy mind.” Dressers and chests of drawers are a boon when it comes to organizing a room, but these storage solutions need thoughtful organization for themselves too.

Waking up to messy drawers is annoying. If you find yourself in this situation, it’s time to revamp your dresser and explore some helpful dresser organization ideas. By following these simple steps, organizing your drawer becomes effortless. Discarding unnecessary items is crucial in this situation.

Follow These Easy Steps to Remove Clutter & Organize Your Dresser.

Step 1: Start with an empty drawer

First, clear out all the contents of your drawer, regardless of what they are. Your clothing dresser needs to be empty so that only useful items find a way back. Get rid of clothes that have become old and outdated, are oversized, and have been unused for years. The best way to get rid of them is to donate or sell these items in a garage sale. 

Step 2: Arrange your stuff

After you decide about the keeping pile, the next step is dresser arrangement.  The best and easiest way is to put clothes in drawers by category so that you can allocate each drawer to that particular category for easy management. This way, your clothes and other items will be sorted and found at the right time.  

Step 3: Organize as per occasion.

You can divide clothes according to different occasions. For example, you can put party wear clothes in one large drawer while casual clothes and formal wear are in different drawers to avoid chaos when you are in a hurry. Picking up an 8-drawer dresser or a standard dresser, in this case, will be a smart choice.

Step 4: Organize as per season.

Seasonal clothing storage is another option you can try for organizing your dresser. This involves separating items relating to a particular season in a single drawer, which will avoid confusion and mix-ups. Select our English Garden Hand Carved Mango Wood 4 Drawer Dresser or any 3- to 4-drawer dresser and utilize it as per the 4 seasons. Easy-peasy!

Step 5: Organize clothing by type.

You can also arrange your clothes according to the cloth type. To save space, only put small items in the drawer. Have a separate chest of drawers for lingerie, socks, tank tops, and shorts.

Apart from having a dresser for your clothes, you can use a modern bachelor chest to store your make-up items and other daily essentials.  Refer to our collection of 6-drawer double dressers or 9-drawer dressers, as they are excellent for organizing by type.

Step 6: Organize by the size of the drawer

Another important aspect you need to consider while organizing is the size of your drawer. A dresser with 7 drawers and above is best if you have plenty of clothes to organize. A solid wood wide dresser will provide sufficient space for storing different clothing items, accessories, and daily essentials.

Investing in a tall wooden dresser or a 3-drawer dresser can be a choice for thinner clothing items. However, before buying, please remember to check the dresser’s dimensions. 

Step 7: Organize the clothes by color.

If you wish to sort your clothes by color and have many similar-colored dresses, you can broadly divide your clothes into different color piles and put the similar ones in the same drawer.

White and black are the two main colors most people have; you can segregate your clothes according to the most worn colors from your collection and allocate different drawers accordingly.  One easy way is to keep white or pastel-hued clothes in a white double dresser, and if you have a black double dresser, then keep a black and darker one in that. 

Step 8: Check your folding techniques

While arranging your closet, your folding techniques will have a giant impact on the space occupied. You can check some videos of unique folding techniques to help in tidying up.

Avoid untidy and bulky folding of clothes; instead, you can overlap them precisely and form thin layers, which will give you the much-needed space so that you can wake up to an organized closet with a positive attitude every morning. 

Step 9: Leave bulky clothes aside

Be sure to leave out clothes like jeans, sweatshirts, and hoodies for your closet. The best way to deal with these bulky clothes is to hang them in a wardrobe, as they occupy a large amount of space. Store the thicker items elsewhere and keep only the thinner ones in your dresser. 

Step 10: Take advantage of extra drawer space

If you have an oversized dresser with locking drawers, you can store valuable accessory items in it to utilize the space. You can dedicate a dresser for jewelry, belts, neckpieces, etc. A dresser with a mirror will be helpful here. If you have a collection of socks, you can utilize that extra drawer suitably. You can opt for a combo dresser to store your clothing accessories. 

Step 11: Use drawer dividers for dresser organization.

If you have deep drawer dressers, when divided, they will provide better dresser organization. Use those dividers to avoid the jumbling of small clothing items. This will help you find items easily without digging through your clothes and spoiling the organized drawer that you’ve worked hard on.  

Step 12: Label your drawers

Labeling each drawer is an easy way to remember their arrangement. If you have children at home, have a separate dresser for babies and kids and one for adults, and label them accordingly.

You can also label them according to gender, color, occasion, etc. Consider a gentleman’s chest dresser or a 5-drawer dresser from our collection if you are a bachelor or someone who needs less storage.

Step 13: Rotate clothing seasonally

If you want easy access to your present-season clothing, the best way is to divide your drawers into the off-season and current-season sections. This way you can get rid of clothes that you are not going to use for the present season. Such rotation will help you focus on the clothes that can be used daily and avoid confusion.

Step 14: Tidy your drawers every day

But be sure to maintain your custom dresser the way it is. After working strategically on it, keep the balance going by tidying it up the day after and changing the arrangements accordingly. It will last long only if you put effort into its maintenance. 

Bid Goodbye to the mess

For the best drawer organization ideas, keep in mind all these tips and try them right away if your drawer is in shambles. The basic rule to follow here is to not let unwanted items reach your drawer and to sort them out every day to avoid unnecessary clutter.

Resist the urge to hoard items, and let go of what you do not use. Using dresser drawers for clothes organization will not only provide storage space but will also bring in positivity. Say goodbye to your mess by embracing these steps and giving your dresser a makeover.