Walk-In Closets designed, built and installed for Oakville — heritage detailing in the old town and whole-house packages on the lake. Our Toronto showroom is around forty minutes east.
An Ontario closet has to hold a full winter as well as a full summer, and that is a much bigger inventory than a warm-climate market: heavy coats, boots, layers and sports gear that all need somewhere to live for half the year. Planning against that seasonal double-inventory is the whole job, and it usually means more long-hanging than a Florida closet and dedicated deep storage for what is out of season.
Lakeside houses in Morrison and Eastlake are large and often rebuilt rather than renovated, which means the cabinetry package covers the whole house rather than one room.
Lake-effect humidity through the shoulder seasons is worth accounting for in solid timber and in anything closed and unventilated.
Old Oakville has heritage properties with real constraints and real character. Interior cabinetry is generally unrestricted, but the detailing has to earn its place in a house with original trim and proportions worth keeping.
What follows applies to every walk-in closet we make, in Oakville 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 Oakville, including Old Oakville, Morrison, Eastlake, Bronte and Glen Abbey. The housing here is heritage houses in the old town, large lakeside properties in Morrison and Eastlake, and established family housing inland, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Toronto showroom is around forty minutes east. The showroom is at 2967 Dundas Street West. Come and see the materials in person, or send the drawings and we will price the job room by room.
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 Oakville every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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