Closet Accessories & Organizers in Toronto

The catalogue

Drawers & inserts

Pull-out shelves

A shelf on full-extension runners, so the back of it comes out to meet you. Knitwear stacked three deep on a fixed shelf means unstacking to reach the bottom of the pile; on a pull-out you look down at all of it at once. Fitted where folded clothes actually live rather than throughout a closet, because a pull-out costs more than a shelf and only earns that where you are digging.

Drawers & inserts

Jewellery drawer inserts

A lined tray dropped into a standard drawer: slotted rows for earrings and rings, longer bays for necklaces, chains and a watch. It sits on the drawer bottom rather than being built into it, so the drawer is still an ordinary drawer if the collection ever changes. Sized to the drawer at the design visit, not bought to fit afterwards.

Hanging fittings

Pull-out trouser racks

Individual arms on a rack that slides out of the cabinet, so trousers hang full length without a crease across the knee and one pair comes out without disturbing the rest. It takes the depth of a drawer bay and gives back the hanging capacity of a section far taller than itself, which is why it earns its place in a closet short on wall.

Shoes & storage

Shoe shelving

Shelving set at shoe pitch, which is far closer together than a folded-clothes shelf, so the same wall holds two or three times the pairs. Flat shelves take about a third more pairs per foot; angled ones present the shoe to you instead of storing it. That is a choice made per bay at the design visit rather than once for the whole closet.

Shoes & storage

Wire pull-out baskets

Ventilated baskets on runners, for the things that should not sit in a closed drawer — gym kit, linens, anything that goes away less than perfectly dry. You can read the contents from above without opening anything, which is why they tend to end up holding whatever gets used most.

Drawers & inserts

Drawer dividers

Clear dividers that split a drawer into a grid sized to what goes in it, rather than to whatever a catalogue had. They lift out, so a drawer laid out for belts and scarves this year can be relaid for something else next year without any joinery. The cheapest thing on this page and the one that changes a drawer most.

Hanging fittings

Tie racks

A double row of hooks on a panel inside the bay, at a height where a tie hangs clear of the shelf beneath it. Every tie is visible at once, which is the entire point of the thing — a tie you cannot see is a tie you do not wear. Mounted on a side panel, where it uses vertical space nothing else was using.

Hanging fittings

Belt racks

The same idea for belts, spaced for a buckle so leather is not pressed against leather along its whole length. It goes on the side of a bay or inside a door — a belt coiled in a drawer takes a drawer, and a belt over a rail slides off it.

Shoes & storage

Tilt-out hampers

A hamper behind a cabinet front that tilts forward on the door, so laundry goes into the closet instead of into a basket on the floor beside it. Twin bags let lights and darks separate as you undress rather than on laundry day. It needs its door swing drawn in, which is why it is far easier to include now than to add later.

Drawers & inserts

Locking drawers

A drawer bank with a keyed lock, built into the run so nothing about it announces what it is. It is not a safe and is not sold as one: it keeps documents, watches and medication out of reach of the people who are simply in the house, which is what most people actually want a locking drawer for.

Display & lighting

Lit glass shelving

Toughened glass shelves with the LED run along the front edge, so the light reaches the shelf below rather than stopping at the one above. It is the only shelving that lights the thing underneath it, which is why it belongs where handbags and shoes are displayed and not where the linen is stored.

Display & lighting

Integrated shelf lighting

Downlights set into the underside of a shelf and wired into the cabinetry, aimed at the shelf below rather than into your eyes. Run on a sensor so the closet lights when the door opens, or on a switch where a sensor would be a nuisance. Typically $200 to $600 for a closet, depending on the run length and which of the two it is.

Fronts & trim

Glass-front cabinets

Framed glass doors on the upper cabinets, so what is inside stays visible and stays clean — which matters more in a closet than people expect, because the top shelf is where dust settles. Fitted where a display bay faces into a room you stand in, and left off where a solid door does the same job for less.

Fronts & trim

Decorative doors and drawers

Panelled fronts on the doors and drawers instead of plain slabs, with crown moulding at the ceiling and base moulding down to the floor. The trim is what lets a floor-to-ceiling run sit flush in an older house where no wall is quite straight. It is also the decision that moves a quote across the whole unit rather than in one place, because every opening gets a front.

Hanging fittings

Hook rails

A rail of hooks on a backer panel, for the things nobody puts on a hanger — bags, caps, the coat that comes off at the door, a robe. Fitted at two heights where children use the run, and always on a backer so the drywall behind it is not what takes the weight.

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