Maximize house and performance in a reach-in, step-in or walk-in closet with a Modular Closet System! Learn to measure, assess, configure, and assemble for minimal funding and energy.
Our bed room closets are modest in dimension and as our ladies develop, it was time for an overhaul! Small attain in closets, like our daughter Adalyn’s, can shortly fill with litter, particularly in the event that they’re fitted with an ordinary rod and shelf, wasting your house!
As Adalyn has grown, so have her garments – and wishes. She was prepared for a refresh and I used to be excited to create a closet to meet a teen woman’s desires.
A modular closet also referred to as a closet system is cheap, simple to put in, and provides useful storage to a bed room closet. There are a wide selection of choices for minimal and maximalists. I’m diving into all the small print it’s essential to know to decide on a closet system that works for you!
Select a Closet System
Measure
Measure peak, width and depth of usable house with a tape measure. Chris and I lean into the saying “measure twice, reduce as soon as” for accuracy.
- Peak – Measure flooring to ceiling, accounting for lighting, and molding.
- Width – Measure the again wall of usable house, factoring in baseboards and moulding for a seamless match.
- Depth – Measure the facet wall, factoring in trim.
Assess Wants
I all the time take a earlier than photograph so I can reference as wanted. To search out one of the best closet system and options, take time to evaluate how you employ your closet, together with:
Hanging Storage
- What you hold (or wish to)
- Size of things that hold to find out kind of hanging storage
- How a lot hanging storage is required
Folded Storage
- What’s folded
- Storage desire – open cabinets, drawers or bins
Equipment
- Footwear, jewellery, baggage, purses, hats, and belts
- How a lot house or kind of storage is required for every
I additionally take a notice about what at the moment is just not working, like litter that collects, any items that really feel misplaced, tough to see or gather mud to handle.
Configure
There are an abundance of modular closet methods which might really feel overwhelming to sift by means of. Modular closet methods supply quite a lot of handy choices to customise.
There are 2 kinds of set up, wall-mounted and freestanding. Now we have built-in each into our residence. Freestanding closet methods are constructed with rods and cabinets in a body. Like furnishings, they’re simple to maneuver and work each in and outdoors of closets.
Wall mounted closet methods require set up to safe it to the partitions in a closet. Wall mounted closets have extra choices to customise, together with drawers, slide out cabinets and extra.
I prefer to configure our closets in Canva, Google Docs or any primary software program to design. Closet shops and IKEA supply free design software program to configure their methods. You need to use it to kind a design idea to slim your choice.
I’m obsessive about how Adalyn’s single unit modular closet system turned out. It has added quite a lot of perform.
Favourite Modular Closets
These are a few of my favourite closet methods to slim your choice.
I can’t wait to customise the remainder of our closets!
Extra Group Concepts
