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.

Two distinct sides

Just like a galley kitchen, having two distinct sides to store your clothes is more fluid and accommodating than an L-shape, U-shape, or one-sided closet. Having a space you can step into with clothing, accessories, or built-ins on either side will create a walk-way for you to pace through. Shores People can pace or walk in circles when they’re bodies are in flow, and being in any environment that accommodates this will have you naturally flocking to it.

His & Her Sides

Or Hers & Hers, or His & His! If you share your wardrobe space with someone else, keep your clothes separated or divided depending on the space available. Having clear sections or sides will better accommodate a Shores Person, rather than mixing up all your clothes together. As a Shores Person, I like to share clothes with my husband, but you better believe we have our own spaces and sections they go back in when we aren’t sharing!

Organize with fancy and comfy sides

This can also be day and night looks. Depending on your lifestyle or whether you share a closet, experiment with organizing your clothes creatively. Instead of gathering items together like all shirts, all pants, etc, create sections in your wardrobe to accommodate your lifestyle, whether that’s a work side and an at-home size, a fancy and a comfy side, or whatever your two worlds are as a Shores Person.

Mirrors somewhere

Shores People have an affinity for meres. I could list ten reasons why, but what’s really important is that you mirror the space in some way. You can hang a mirror on an open space of wall, mirror an entire wall, experiment with mirrored furniture — have an elaborate trifold mirror that shows all your angles — heck, you might even have mirrored clothing in some way. I’ve seen it! If you have the luxury of designing a dressing room, consider how you can creatively use mirrors, and always be mindful of what the mirror is reflecting.

Skylights or windows

Having natural light in any room is always a Shores dream. Shores people can pick their entire houses based on the windows and how the light shines in. I remember touring homes to move into, and there were all these graaaand walk-in closets. But then we walked into one that had an interesting window in it and the whole atmosphere changed. I was taking notes! Why was this one little window so powerful even though some other closets had better features? Any creative way you can let the light in is worth experimenting with because it has such a cool effect on the body. I don’t like the idea of a massive window where people would see me or my clothes, but I’ve seen enough interesting little windows now that I think Shores People would really love it.

An island or bench

Just like that galley-style closet that really accommodates your flow, having an item in the center so you can orbit around it is also a really complimentary design for you. A built-in island or little bench to sit on will allow you to pace and move about the space while also having practical storage and surfaces to use. By putting something in the center, you are creating a circular flow in the space that will have you gravitating toward it.

Try a digital organizer

I LOVE to use an app to view my closet. I always go back to Cladwell because I like how I’ve uploaded my closet and can scroll through outfits and have the app generate outfits for me. I love to see my clothing displayed this way, and I love to plan outfits for trips I’m taking, organizing them in my app before packing. I’m also able to track what I wear, see what I haven’t worn in a while, and can plan to get core high-quality pieces that I can see are missing from my wardrobe when I view it this way. I like this for Shores People because your closet shows up in another world, an artificial digital world, and there’s something very fun about that.