Custom Closets in St Clair, MI

The wrong answer is framing a walk-in out of the corner of a well-proportioned bedroom, which is common and which costs the room the symmetry it was designed with — in a house where the windows, the fireplace and the door were laid out as a composition, chopping a corner off is visible forever. The better answers are usually a fitted wardrobe built against a wall in the same register as the room's woodwork, so it reads as furniture that belongs; reworking a shallow existing closet so its depth is actually usable; or going into the volume the house is not using. That last one is the big one in these houses: full-height servants' stair landings, deep under-eave space on the upper floor, and the awkward areas around chimney breasts all hold real storage and none of it costs floor area from a principal room. Where a dressing room already exists, which the larger riverfront houses often have, fitting it out properly with hanging, drawers and shelving gives you a modern closet without touching the architecture at all.

We look at the whole floor before recommending where storage should go, not just the room you asked about, because in a house of this period the best answer is often next door. Everything is built at our Chesterfield shop and fitted to the actual space.

St Clair is about twenty-one miles from our Chesterfield shop, well inside the area we cover along the river.