Organizing a Linen Closet: The 5 Inches You Waste

A finished linen closet seen from the landing, four shelves of folded towels and bundled sheet sets with risers filling the headroom.

A linen closet loses about 5 inches at the top of every shelf, and no folding method gets them back. A stack of towels taller than 9 inches topples or stops being dug through. Shelves in a linen closet are usually spaced 14 inches apart. That leaves 5 inches of headroom doing nothing above every ... Read more