Spit on your finger and press it to the underside of the cloth...just one thickness. If the moisture wicks along the lines of the fabric, it's linen. Also, when you wash fabrics....both linen and cotton will come out wrinkled....but when you iron the piece while it's soaking wet..just spun out....and pretty much iron it dry...linen will be crisp, like it was starched....cotton won't be. I learned the "spit trick" from the older women at a household sale when I was a sweet young chick! Linda C

GH's link for a review: http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/home-products/closet-organizing-system-reviews/diy-closet-organizers#slide-6 They review a few at different price points. I have purchased some awsome IKEA products. My favorite is a long bench I put on wheels and my kids use this everyday with toy bins underneath. It is laminated and very easy to clean and sturdy. If you near an IKEA spend a day and feel the products as every product is on display. I have seen some not so quality items but for the price.... Are you and IKEA family member? They give monthly discounts and offers via e-mail and you can log on to the website for the current offers at each store. Most of the systems are 2 person jobs though so make sure you recruit help. Good Luck with your decision!

When we didn't have a linen closet or space for an extra dresser I kept the linens in underbed boxes. Because I was hard up for cash, I used the plain cardboard ones and they worked just fine. Our linens currently occupy a dresser that is serving double duty in our bedroom as a tv stand. Line your dresser drawers to keep out the "old wood" smell. (I don't think very many people do that anymore.) Some people like the scented ones but I think they are always too strong and too artificial - wallpaper (which can often be found free or dirt cheap), butcher/freezer paper, or contact paper (the "peelable" sort that will come off without leaving sticky junk) works just fine. If pockets are deeper there are shelf/drawer liners made of real cedar veneer that are nice too. My elderly relatives stored their bar soaps in the linen drawers to keep things smelling nice and because they thought aging the soap hardened it and made it last longer. (That is true for real soap based on lye and oil/fat, but not the detergent bars that pass for soap most of the time these days. But who even uses bar soap anymore? It's all liquids and gels these days.) In times past sachets were always little girls' first sewing projects. At any health-food store these days you can get muslin drawstring "tea bags" which you can fill with the lavender flowers, bay leaves, chamomile, cloves, whatever purchased at the same place. (Of course you can put the same stuff in a piece of old nylon hose or a fine-knit sock like a baby sock, but the muslin bag is much prettier and costs maybe fifty cents.) Throwing one of these bags of lavender flowers into the dryer blows ANY commercial dryer sheet right out of the water - you just have to make sure it is tied tight. I make these for holiday gifts and they always go over wonderfully, perhaps because the fancy-pants "boo-teeks" ;-) have started carrying them for upwards of three dollars apiece! (They cost me about 25 cents to make, since I can get the makings from a wholesaler who will sell to the public.) Cedar blocks are nice but they have to be sanded every so often to refresh the scent. Towels - how about one of these hotel-style wall-mounted towel holders? They are fabulous for fitting a lot of towels into a very small space in the bathroom. For towels that must be hung up flat (like if they're "in rotation"), here's a site with several hinge-mounted towel racks that hide four to six towels behind the door. The "Duo" shower curtain rod and towel bar is also pretty cool, looks a little nicer than just draping the towels over the shower curtain rod.

Found we could get away w/ a 22" door (but no trim on inside of closet) and went for that. (I may come back and rip cut some trim to narrow strips and add them on the inside myself if it bothers me) Door was cheaper than cabinet doors and only 1 door (vs 4 cabinet doors) so easier to access. Thanks,