Walk-In Closets designed, built and installed for Brooklyn — rowhouses with sloping floors, narrow stairs and mouldings worth keeping. Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough.
New York closets are won by inches. In a pre-war apartment the dressing room is frequently a converted bedroom or a carved-out corner, and the difference between a closet that works and one that does not is a few inches of depth found by planning rather than by wishing. Everything is measured on site, corners are made to work rather than left dead, and the joinery is engineered to be carried in through a pre-war corridor and a lift. Full-height is almost always right here, because floor area is the thing you do not have.
Landmarked districts control the exterior and, in some cases, more than that. Interiors are generally unrestricted, but it is worth establishing which district a house sits in before anything touching a window or a facade is drawn.
These houses move. Floors slope, walls bow, and a 12-foot run can lose an inch end to end. Scribes and site templating are standard, not contingency.
The brownstone is the defining problem and the defining opportunity. Long narrow floors, a kitchen usually at garden level, original mouldings worth keeping, and stairs that decide what can physically get in. Cabinetry is built to be carried up a rowhouse stair.
What follows applies to every walk-in closet we make, in Brooklyn and everywhere else.
A closet is a storage problem with a fixed inventory: a specific number of long-hanging pieces, short-hanging pieces, folded items, shoes and bags. Designed against that inventory it works for years. Designed as an even grid of rails and shelves it is full within a season, which is why the first conversation is a count rather than a drawing.
Lighting sits in the shelving and behind the hanging rails, so what you are looking at is lit rather than shadowed by your own body.
Soft-close throughout, drawers rather than doors at low level, and hardware rated for the number of cycles a dressing room actually sees.
We start from what actually has to go in — long, short, folded, shoes, bags — rather than filling the room with equal shelves.
More on how we approach this → Walk-In Closets
We work throughout Brooklyn, including Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The housing here is brownstones and limestone rowhouses, converted industrial buildings, and new condominium along the waterfront, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Bring the plans, or send them over and we will itemise the cabinetry by room before you visit.
Every project is photographed room by room with the materials and the detailing listed, so you can see how a job like this is actually put together before you commit to one.
See the walk-in closets we have built
You can also search every finish we specify and every appliance we design around.
One shop draws, finishes and installs all of it, which is why the closet matches the kitchen and there is one number to call when something needs adjusting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a designer who works in Brooklyn every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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