How To Make More Space

How to get more space from your closet with a custom design

How is this possible? Here are some reasons:

When your clothes and shoes are stored in a way that saves space, you'll suddenly have even more storage area available for other things. Right now, for example, your walk-in closetmay be bulging at the seams, and your holiday decorations might reside in your guest room or garage.

Once you have your custom closet installed, however, you'll be surprised at how much extra storage space you will have in that closet alone! You may be able to move all of your seasonal decorations to a high shelf in the walk-in closet, opening up room in the garage for sports equipment or other items.

Custom closets give you a place for everything to live, no matter what your “things” are. The items that you need to store are not the same as your neighbor's. For this reason, your custom closet system won't be exactly the same as anyone else's.

Your design and installation professional will talk to you about exactly what your needs are. Maybe you have a collection of shoes; in this case, you may need a larger-than-usual shoe rack. If your daughter only wears sweaters, she'll need more drawers or shelf space in her closet and fewer rods to hang clothing.

When you have a custom closet installed , you'll have room to store everything that needs to be stored in the closet, minimizing or eliminating the amount of space taken up elsewhere in the home for these items.

Clutter, as well as the lack thereof, tends to spread. You know how it is: If you put a stack of bills or paperwork on the dining room counter and leave it there overnight, by the next day, the kids have deposited their school papers on the table, your husband has emptied his pockets of receipts on the table and someone knocks the stack over looking for something else.

Clutter begets clutter; our brains see a stack or a pile as a reason to add to it for some reason. The corollary is also true: When you have a neat and tidy master closet, for example, you'll naturally keep the rest of the master bedroom neater.

You'll put things away right away and won't allow them to pile up, which creates a better flow. One neat room begets another; installing custom closets throughout your home will allow tidiness to spread, opening up more space in the living areas as things are put away.

You know even before making your purchase that custom closets will change the way you handle your storage; what you may not realize is exactly how much this will change the overall dynamics of how your house looks and feels with everything stored in an easy-to-reach way that is totally customized to the way you live.