What Closet is good for You

Closets are a place in your home that generally don't get the attention they deserve. People spend thousands of dollars in nice clothes but still use the original builders wire closets. Often in the new condos the closets spaces are irregular or include diagonal walls or limited by columns, a/c ducts or cable boxes. But even that is no excuse for using tacky wire or other cheap ventilated systems don't protect your clothes from dust and moisture.

Some people use wardrobes and that was historically the way clothes were stored prior to WW II. One seldom finds closets in pre-war era homes; wardrobes were the order of the day. There were two simple reasons for this: (1) an individual seldom had many clothes to hang up, certainly by today’s opulent standards; and (2) real closets were considered to be rooms and property owners were taxed according to the number of rooms in their home.

Today we are lucky not only to have adequate spaces for our closets but to have a large varriety of materials, styles of cabinets, colors and accessories for everything.

Wire closets are the cheapest type of closet and most new construction comes with that type of closet. Often, wire closets are inefficient and fail to maximize use of space. The leader in that kind of products are Closet Maid. And there are custom closet companies that offer particle board and melamine closets like California Closets, leader in this segment. They need to come to your home and take your measurments and the closets have to be install by the same company. These closets look good in on their webpage, but look like cheap kitchen cabinets in person.

Or can also design and buy a high quality closet online and install it yourself. I recomend Speedyclosets.com because they don't use cheap particle board components or kitchen style wall hanging cabinets. You just submit your closet dimensions online for a menu of closets that you can use or play with an easy visual design program and create the closet you want. They also will ship your closet the next bussines day.


Felipe Visser
Speedy Closets