Port Huron, St Clair County, MI
Custom Closets in Port Huron, MI
Bungalows were built small and built clever. A Port Huron Craftsman house typically has shallow closets, a stair with usable space under it, and a floored attic that is doing nothing — which makes storage here a puzzle about volume rather than a matter of fitting out a large empty room.
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.
Custom Closets questions from Port Huron homeowners
- What is the best place to add storage in a bungalow?
- Behind the upstairs knee walls, in most cases. A story-and-a-half house has deep dead space running the length of both sides of the upper floor, it is easy to reach, and building drawers or pull-out units into it costs no room area at all. The space under the main stair is the second best and is usually sealed off behind drywall. Both are bigger wins than reworking a shallow bedroom closet.
- Can you make a shallow closet usable?
- Usually. A closet too shallow to hang clothes across can take a rod running front to back instead, which uses the depth properly, or be converted to shelving and drawers with hanging provided by a fitted wardrobe elsewhere in the room. Both are built to the actual opening, which in a house of this age is rarely a standard size.
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Custom Closets we have built
Our own work, photographed on site. Not every job shown is in Port Huron — we do not label a photograph with a city we cannot verify it was taken in.
Walk-In Closet System
A fitted walk-in closet: full-height shelving towers, double-hung rod sections, and adjustable shoe shelving carried around the corner of the room. Built and installed as a fitted unit rather than assembled from a kit.
Custom Closets elsewhere in the area
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