Walk-In Closets designed, built and installed for Queens — Tudor houses and new towers, needing opposite answers. Our New York showroom in Brooklyn is a short run from most 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.
The single-family stock is older and characterful — arched openings, plaster, original trim — and the cabinetry is usually detailed to sit alongside it rather than to replace the character.
The co-ops run alteration agreements as strictly as Manhattan does, including insurance, working hours and elevator scheduling.
Queens has the widest range of housing of any borough, and the brief changes completely between a Forest Hills Tudor and a Long Island City tower. The first conversation is about which of those two problems we are solving.
The local detail changes from job to job. This part does not.
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.
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.
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.
More on how we approach this → Walk-In Closets
We work throughout Queens, including Forest Hills, Astoria, Jamaica Estates, Bayside and Long Island City. The housing here is Tudor and colonial single-family houses, a large stock of pre-war and post-war co-ops, and new towers in Long Island City, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom in Brooklyn is a short run from most of the borough. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The samples are worth handling before you choose — or send the drawings and we will price it first.
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 Queens every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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