For the new year, I decided I wanted to mix things up a bit and put items on different rods, different shelves , not only for making room & organizing but also just to change perspective and perhaps shake loose some creativity or style focus or keeping track. I figured I can always schlep them back around again.
I'm lucky to have a lot of hanging space in my main closet, but not the perfect distance between top & bottom rods - one section is closer together than ideal for double hanging, for example.
Here are some of my random observations of what I ran into:

I have mostly double rod arrangements, though some are the add-a-rod hanging things so I could remove or shorten, etc.
I found that I can't just treat all the areas as interchangeable, because visually there are differnces due to spacing and light and some nooks.

It might seem that tops go on top and bottoms on bottom, but the tops block the light over the lower rods.
Also part of the rods space has a short part of a wall in front of it on either side- still easy to reach but it's off to each side a bit when I'm standing in front of this rod section.
Yet, I really like having my tops--- blouses, pullovers- up at eye level where I can riffle through them easily.
I had had my pants at eye level on a eye- level top rod to allow more light to the rod section below . Then I have some rod space perpendicular to this area, but the upper rod is higher so it had seemed less accessible . I have been hanging my jackets/ blazers up there because that had seemed right for those bulkier items and less used.

Instead now I did a flip.
I've put all my work pants up on this HIGHER top rod. As always, I hang them folded over those one- arm open pant hangers. Why the higher rod might work is that my pants are mostly all quite dark, yet different styles. The most rapid identifying aspects are HEM and WAISTBAND. When up higher, the hems and waistbands( which are together, since pants are folded waist to hem) are all lined about eye level, making it easier to tell the black bootcut from the tapered pant vs the cuffed pant and so on. Plus this rod is not blocked by any short wall sections.

Now then, I'm trying the blazers on a low rod even though some tops above block visibility and light a bit . This may work because the jackets have a broader width to them at the shoulder line on the hanger and in profile, so I can see the colors and material well enough to tell them apart even from that angle. That is less true of knit tops which are thinner.
However, I'm going to still need to put some tops on a section below my " top tops". Or will at least unless or until I reduce my numbers!
Since these will be a bit harder to see down there, I'm trying to think whether they should be lesser used, or maybe should be a category such as dress T's and shells and knits and blouses that are multi - season and/ or layering. This is a category I'm trying to include as all- in, rather than seasonal storage, in order to do more outfit creation OR decide the items are not being worn and toss them. It might be important to arrange them strictly and keep them that way , and not crowd and smoosh them together, or maybe add a motion light or something down lower on the wall.
Some of this shuffling may open up some new ways to hang belts and scarves.

I know it's not easy to envision what's going on, but still thought I'd share for any fellow " arrangers " out there.

Please do share any "aha" or clever arrangements you've done, or overcome.