Over the weekend I cleared out our front closet. As you enter the condo, this closet is just beyond the front door to the left. We weren't using it as a coat closet because it had been turned into a storage closet with the addition of a third shelf and the hanging rod being removed. (I still can not figure out why it was turned into anything other than a coat closet, it's the perfect place for one.) Anyway for the past year and a half we had been using it as a catch all space for whatever items there were not having a home. There were air mattresses, lunch boxes, wine glasses, shot glasses, extra pillows, curtains, the vacuum and apparently a big red bucket. Basically, you name it and it was probably in there. This weekend however, the time had finally come for it to be converted back to its intended purpose, a coat closet. 
(At least the shelves were neat.)
I started by completely emptying out the closet and purging items we no longer wanted or found to be useful to us. Then I went to Home Depot and had a wooden dowel cut to size, added it to the closet along with our coats, snow gear, and a few other things and ta-dah!
Nothing fancy here. It was purely function over form, even though I did add some washi tape to the front of the shelves for a little bit of interest.
To the upper shelves, I added back our lunch boxes and organized our snow gear in plastic bins with $1 bin tags from Target. The wooden basket holds some of my workout gear, such as, gloves and a jump rope.
At the bottom of the closet I have our briefcases and a vintage two gallon crock that holds our umbrellas. The crock is sitting on a vintage step stool used when I need to reach the top shelf.
Sooo... that's all folks, a quick project that costs a total of $5.36 and it was extremely easy to complete.
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