If you were designing your dream closet space, what would you include? How would you store your clothes? How about your shoes, hats and bags?

Even in the dressing room, considering your Environment Variable in your Human Design Bodygraph can be a fun way to get in touch with the spaces you resonate with.

Have you ever had a closet that you adored? Maybe you stole a few sacred moments in it when you needed to gather your spirits, or needed a quiet moment to regulate your body. Maybe for you, it’s just a space to hold your clothes and undergarments.

Below, you’ll find ways to design and set up your closet and dressing room based on the Colour of your Environment Variable, whether you’re Caves, Markets, Kitchens, Mountains, Valleys or Shores. These are not hard and fast rules, but ideas for you to consider when building awareness on what you resonate with outside your body. Calculate your Environment Variable here.

Privacy

Include a door! You may even want to have a lock on the interior so no one bursts in while you’re dressing yourself. Some closets are walk-ins or connect to an ensuite, and they exclude a door to the space. For a Caves Person, having a door you can close helps contain the space and make you feel safe within it. It is a small thing that can bring a lot of regulation. It’s also great if your closet gets messy and you don’t want to deal with it. Close the door!

Automatic lighting

Caves People aren’t always a fan of darkness. These are bodies that don’t want to be spooked! Lighting is a great way to create a sense of low-key safety. Having automatic lighting that acknowledges you the moment you walk into the dressing room keeps the space illuminated when necessary — like when you’re in it.

No windows

Some of the coziest nooks and crannies are spaces with no windows — like the bathroom in the middle of the house, or the deep ensuite within the primary bedroom (a room within a room is the ultimate prize for a Caves Person). The closet is almost always a room within a room, making this space particularly special for Caves People. Eliminate windows in your dressing room to keep it cave-like (there are no windows in the literal cave save for the opening of the cave mouth).

Carpeted

A carpeted space absorbs sound, keeps things soft beneath your feet, and is a quick way to amp up the cozy factor within a space. Many Cave People find themselves sprawling out on the ground, rolling around like bear cubs — I have noticed when there is carpet in a space, this tends to happen way more. Experiment with a carpeted interior, or laying out floor rugs where possible. Don’t overlook the floorspaces around you as a Caves Person.

Not too big, but cozy

When we’re talking about our dream closet, we all tend to think that bigger is better. For the Caves Person, they can do well with a large or small space, but it’s more important that things are laid out in a way that feels intimate, cozy, safe and well placed. You want to feel like everything has a spot, and no space is wasted.

A secret drawer

Maybe it’s a safe, maybe it’s an invisible drawer, or maybe it’s a cubby within a cubby. Designing a secret drawer that only you know about will help you protect some of your most private or important treasures. You can even get clever with storage so that it isn’t obvious how many nooks and crannies are actually within the space.

Built-in nooks for shoes and hats

Inside the cave, everything is stone — small nooks are carved out and strategically used to store all kinds of things. They are built into the walls, floors and ceilings. How can we seek inspiration from this? When it comes to your closet, design built-in nooks to store your favourite items, like shoes, hats, jewellery, or makeup. Ensure everything has it’s own space to be stored in.