Build Your Own Custom Closet: Designing, Building & Installing Custom Closet Systems

by Black & Decker, Gillett Cole

There's almost nothing in the modern home that can delight us more than an intelligently organized, nicely featured closet-a place where things are organized in pleasing geometry, here we can find and retrieve that perfect tie or that just-right sweater, instantly. And there's nothing more disheartening and irritating than that murky closet from the netherworld, where boxes tumble down on our heads whenever the door opens, where the sheer clutter makes it impossible to identify what's inside, much less retrieve the item you need. Consumer desperation is why entire companies have sprung up devoted to closet organizing-it's the reason homeowners sometimes spend literally thousands of dollars to have a custom closet organizer designed and installed. Or, they can buy this book and do it themselves for a fraction of the cost. Today, virtually all the materials and hardware used by custom closet fabricators is available to consumers on the racks of home centers and hardware stores. Build Your Own Custom Closet is the first book to show consumers all the inside tips on designing a custom closet, and how to install it using materials they can buy themselves. This is the book that will lift readers from closet purgatory into the heaven of the well-organized closet-without selling their souls.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Black & Decker Corporation is an American manufacturer of power tools, accessories, hardware, home improvement products and technology based fastening systems headquartered in Towson, Maryland.


Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Karrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is Pre-IKEA DIY

[Ligaya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Literally THE worst ebook I've read as often there would be only one paragraph per page and each page would take longer to load than it would take to read! Regarding the information in this book, it is geared more toward installing closet kits than building an entirely new closet—which is what I was wanting. The step-by-step instructions were tedious and simplistic. There were instructions for how to demo! I don't enjoy DIY books were the photos are totally staged, there's no saw dust flying, and the models don't know how to swing a hammer. That's what this book seems to be.

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

We're hoping to redo our master bedroom closet, so this is our research. Not as many plans/blueprints/diagrams as I would like. It's more geared toward someone planning to use a closet kit who wants to customize it to fit. We're thinking more along the lines of build from scratch.