custom closets?

[Papa Deuce]

Anybody here use on of those companies that makes custom closets / organiztion shelves? Did you find they were worth the money? Our walk in closet is 9 x 20 feet long and I'm thinking it will be SEVERAL thousand dollars to install one of these.

Any and all feedback welcome!

 

[Laurajean1014]

5 years ago, we built a home and used California Closets for all of our closets.

Our Pantry came out beautifully, as well as my bedroom and my husband's bedroom closet.

My son's was nice too. The guest closet and hall closet were done too.

We paid less than $4000 for everything!

I hope that helps.

L

 

[MScott1851]

You know, we got someone to come out and do an estimate for our closet when we built the house. Our walk in is approximately 9x12, and for what I wanted, it was going to be almost 5,000 dollars. We could have built a whole other room onto the house for that much.

Dh went to Lowes and bought those Kraftmaid closet organizer systems. I now have shoe organizers for 60 pairs, a shelf that runs around the whole top of the closet, and one section of floor to ceiling shelves for my purses and scrubs. We debated on putting drawers in, but I wanted everything out in the open where i could see it. I think the total cost was just about $600. We got the white, but they also come in a cherry and lighter oak finish too. They are also removeable and can go with us when we move, unlike the custom jobs. Once you get the clothes on them, they aren't rickety at all.

It does seem to "close in" the closet, though.

 

[Figment22]

Dh went to Lowes and bought those Kraftmaid closet organizer systems. I now have shoe organizers for 60 pairs, a shelf that runs around the whole top of the closet, and one section of floor to ceiling shelves for my purses and scrubs. We debated on putting drawers in, but I wanted everything out in the open where i could see it. I think the total cost was just about $600. We got the white, but they also come in a cherry and lighter oak finish too. They are also removeable and can go with us when we move, unlike the custom jobs. Once you get the clothes on them, they aren't rickety at all.

We did the same thing with our walk-ins Even though my husband is very handy, I must say that they are fairly easy to assemble and install. My oldest son, who was 13 at the time actually put together one of the towers for his own closet by himself!

Now I must admit we cheated a bit. We first had two local custom closet installers come out to give us estimates and more importantly layout ideas. Then we just implemented them ourselves with the do-it-yourself version from Lowe's.

 

[DiznEeyore]

Dh and I are putting the finishing touches on our bedroom addition and just last weekend installed our custom closet. We bought ours from the closet shop at The Great Indoors. We gave them our measurements and an idea of what we wanted to store, and they worked up a plan for us.

We did get two of the starter kits on sale, but all told the shelving cost a little over $1100. After living with a 22" reach-in closet for the last 11-1/2 years, I have to say that this is the best money we could've spent in the new room! It's beautiful (dark cherry) and so functional. We have shelves, drawers w/jewelry trays, wire baskets, a shoe organizer, and sliding chrome belt and tie racks for dh.

The best part (as someone stated above) is how easily they go up. We ended up totally rearranging our components once we got everything in (our closet ended up slightly larger than the builder originally specified) and it was so easy to do!

Dh is taking one hanging rod back to The Great Indoors today to have it cut down -- they provide that service for free, which is nice, too.