On the small closet front, I live in a slightly larger house (1,100 sq ft) with only two tiny closets (for me AND my husband) so I've needed to be strategic with how I store things. In our primary bedroom, I went up as far as I could vertically to add shelves. This is where I fold stuff I don't need to access every day, like jeans, heavy sweaters, etc. In the middle of the closet rack, I hung one of those narrow multiple shelf shoe trees, but not for shoes; it's to hold all my cold-weather scarves/wraps/hats/gloves/etc. For lighter scarves, I used one of these scarf hangers. And for my shoes, I use one of the over the door hangers for the inside closet door. All this has vastly increased the amount of space in my tiny closet!