Custom Closets Edison NJ

Custom closets, fitted wardrobes and garage storage across Edison — the post-war capes of Clara Barton and Stelton, the larger houses of North Edison, and the townhouses along the Route 27 and Oak Tree corridors.

Edison is one of the largest townships in New Jersey and it does not have a single kind of house. A cape in Clara Barton, a 1970s split off Grove Avenue and a newer five-bedroom in North Edison have almost nothing in common except that the storage was designed last and sized for a different era.

The two most common jobs here sit at opposite ends of that range: capes that were extended without ever gaining a decent closet, and newer homes with walk-in closets that are large and almost entirely unfitted. See how the process works.

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The Extended Cape: More House, Same Closets

Clara Barton, Stelton and Bonhamtown are full of post-war capes and small ranches, and a large share of them have been extended at some point — a dormer upstairs, a rear extension, a converted garage. The living space grew. The storage almost never did.

The result is a house with four bedrooms and the closet capacity of two. The original closets are shallow reach-ins with a single rail, and the added rooms often have nothing at all, because a closet eats floor area the builder wanted to show as living space.

Both halves are fixable and they need different answers. The existing closets get rebuilt internally — double hanging where shirts and jackets need only forty inches, a drawer tower in place of the chest of drawers standing in the room, shelving taken to the ceiling. The added rooms get a built-in wardrobe, which creates storage where the architecture never provided any. See wardrobes and built-ins →

North Edison: A Big Walk-In Is Not a Closet System

The newer and larger houses in North Edison usually do have a walk-in closet off the primary bedroom, and homeowners are often surprised to be told it is the least efficient storage in the house.

The reason is how builders finish them: a single rail running around the perimeter with one shelf above. That arrangement uses the walls and ignores everything else. The middle of the room is empty, the full height above the shelf is empty, and the space under the hanging clothes — often four feet of it, all the way round — is empty too. A large walk-in finished that way can easily hold less than a properly fitted reach-in half its size.

Fitting it means treating it as a room rather than a cupboard: double-hang sections where the clothing allows, a central island or drawer bank if the floor area supports one, shoe shelving at an angle rather than a pile, and full-height storage for the things used twice a year. See walk-in closet systems →

Finishes That Match a Newer House

Newer homes tend to have a consistent finish palette through the bedrooms and bathrooms, and a closet that ignores it reads as an afterthought. There are eleven door profiles and a wide finish range, so the system can follow the house rather than announce itself. See the finishes →

Townhouses, Condominiums and the Commuter Belt

Along Route 27, Oak Tree Road and towards Metropark, much of the newer housing is townhouses and condominiums. They are built upward rather than outward, which puts every square foot under pressure and leaves the secondary bedrooms with whatever the floor plan could spare.

Two things come up almost every time. The first is entry storage: a townhouse door tends to open into living space with nowhere for coats, bags and shoes, and a shallow run of cabinetry with hooks and a bench fixes that without taking real depth. The second is working-from-home storage, because a great many Edison households commute from Metropark or Edison station two or three days a week and need the other days to happen somewhere other than the kitchen table. See home office storage →

Where We Work in Edison

We cover the whole township — Menlo Park, Clara Barton, Stelton, Bonhamtown, Nixon, Oak Tree, North Edison, Potters and Edison Center. Metuchen sits entirely surrounded by Edison and we work there constantly, so if you are near the border it makes no difference to us which side of it you are on.

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