Project: Closet Makeover

I am attempting the impossible...making a former bachelor's closet fit for two. I have officially accepted this assignment and have began researching closet organization tips. Some quite useful tips that I have located so far include the following: 

• Use a bulletin board or coat rack to store jewelry
• Use old jewelry gift boxes in drawers to create a divider
• Use shower curtain hooks or valet hooks in closet for accessory storage

I also plan on purchasing the hanging shoe bins/shelves to place items in. 
Here are some before pictures:

I'm looking for a little closet inspiration so please send me your thoughts.

***UPDATE***

I have a few closet inspirational photographs:





 I really like the hat boxes!!! This is a great look and only works if the color of the box ties in with the color design of the closet.

 The ladder looks great and so does the chandelier and patterned walls. My fear however, is that these items may appear "too feminine" in a shared closet.

 Don't know what to do with that portable clothes rack, place along an empty wall in the closet for added clothes hanging space.

 Again, another patterned wall but this time, it appears behind a storage shelf. I'm sure our former bachelor has one of these lying around the garage somewhere. This item would also look great on an empty wall.

 

I purchased one of these (hanging shelves) so far and I plan on picking up a few more.

Whoever came up with the idea of using shower curtain hooks to hang your hand bags is a GENIUS. Enough said.

I heard about the peg board idea and mentioned it, but decided to locate a picture to show you what I was referring to.

 Like the chandelier idea, I love the mirror as well. The problem however, is incorporating this idea into a shared closet where every corner of space is already needed. I'll really have to think hard on this one.

 This is a solution to all those jeans seen stacked on the shelf in the before picture. Using bins/or crates as dividers will prevent leaning towers from coming down on your head :-)

 There is already a ladder in the closet located in the Before pictures (probably hard to see right now with all the clutter). This picture has inspired me to paint the ladder to go along with the color design for the closet.

 I like this idea for a coat closet (though my focus should not be on that right now). If you look to the bottom right of the photograph, you will see an upright bin or clear garbage can that has been repurposed to house umbrellas (wet or dry).

LOVE IT!