Custom Closets in Port Huron, MI

The best returns are almost always in the space the house is not using. Under-stair volume in a bungalow is substantial and normally sealed behind a wall; opening it up for drawers, a pull-out or a proper cupboard adds real storage in the middle of the house with no floor area lost. The upper floor in a story-and-a-half bungalow has knee walls with deep dead space behind them the full length of the house, and building drawers or pull-out units into that is the single largest storage gain available in this housing stock. Shallow original bedroom closets can be reworked so the rod runs front to back and the full depth becomes usable, or converted to shelving and paired with a fitted wardrobe. In the larger houses the approach is the one we take across the older stock: build fitted wardrobes in the register of the room's own woodwork rather than framing a walk-in out of a well-proportioned bedroom. Downstairs, the back entry wants a hard-wearing bench and hooks, because in this climate it takes the winter.

We look at the whole floor rather than the one closet you asked about, since in a bungalow the answer is usually somewhere else in the house. Built at our Chesterfield shop, fitted to the actual pitch and depth.

Port Huron is about thirty miles from our Chesterfield shop, at the north end of the river run we work every week.