Closet Demo & Doors & Organization

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I’m 5:05. Pax system fit well into my space. I added a little wood trim to make it a perfect fit with custom built-in look. Since I put it in they came out with a bigger one with sliding doors. I had put 2 units flush side by side so I have 4 doors to open to access difft sections. This did allow me to use a mirrored door for one which is useful.

I don’t remember the doors being hard to hang, but I do remember thinking the whole thing was inexpensive. The boxes each section comes in are very heavy because of the solid wood doors. Bring a friend to help carry them.

The advantage over just using one large closet is you can arrange it to have drawers, shelves, and hanging rod space so you don’t need another piece of furniture.

True, although the Ikea ones may not perfectly fit the width and depth of the space. If they are a close fit, I agree that’s a nice option – though they aren’t cheap once you get all the parts. I’ve used them as freestanding closets and liked the look a lot of the Nexus birch doors – but putting the heavy doors on the Pax frames was a bitch – took me forever. Once on, they worked great. I’ve got to believe the sliding door ones would be easier to install, as well as taking up less space.

But if it didn’t fit just right, I think the idea of using the entire space as the closet is better. Closet organizer stuff isn’t cheap, but you can get just a nice job done, likely cheaper, having a carpenter use wood or mdf.

Or another alterntive – buy a large armoire that fits the space well – they look nice and come in many large sizes – both new and antique. I’ve been looking for one, and am amazed at the variety out there online. (Of course, you have to be able to fit it through the doorway. The 100 year old wood ones, both american and european, almost all were designed to come apart into separate wood panels for just that purpose.)

If you build a closet, I would look for design options other than bifold doors. The previous owners of my last apartment installed them on one closet, and while they worked, I never liked them. I disliked them about as much as the old fashioned sliding ones they installed on another closet that kept coming off the tracks – even though the bifolds worked OK.

Bifolds are good because you can see the entire contents of the closet when they are open. Sliding doors save space in a really tight place, but you can only see half the closet at once.

If space isn’t too tight, I much prefer two wood doors with doorknobs in the center that open to each side (with no wood or moulding separating them in the middle – so the whole width of the closet is open when the doors are.) That’s what I have where I am now, and I much prefer it (though the doors, when open, do take up more room than bifolds do – that’s OK, since there is plenty of room here for them to swing open. An added benefit is that because the larger doors are kinda in the way when open when I’m not using the closet, I find I that close them all the time – it provides good incentive for me to close the closet doors, whereas I was lazy and left my bifolds open a lot, which was kinda ugly. That doesn’t happen here. (Hey, human nature can use incentive sometimes.)

Me, I’d spend for real doors before I’d spend for those closet organization systems. The room looks better with painted wood doors that match the trim paint and with real doorknobs, and you can do a lot inside the closet with closet rods and some built-in shelving without having every little hook part of an expensive system.

Ikea now has huge wardrobes you can just put into the space once it’s opened up. They have many door styles including sliding rather than bifold. That way you could find a contractor to just open the wall and clean up the space. Then you don’t need to pay someone big money for the california closets kind of thing.