Reach-In Closet Accessories
Everything here is chosen for depth. A reach-in is usually twenty-four inches deep and you stand outside it, so an accessory either earns its inches or it goes.
What the room needs
Reach-In Closet Accessories
A reach-in gives you one wall and no floor. That rules out most of what a walk-in can take — no island, no bench, no seating — and it puts the emphasis somewhere else entirely: on height, on the back of the door, and on fittings shallow enough not to foul the doors when they close.
The single biggest gain is almost always double hanging rather than any accessory at all. Two rails at forty-two and eighty-four inches roughly double what a four-foot closet holds, and everything below is what goes around that once it is done.
One at a time
What each one does, and what it costs you
Every item is a separate line on your drawing, so you can take one out and see exactly what comes off the price.
- Double hanging
- Two rails in one bay for shirts, jackets and folded trousers, with a single long-hang bay kept for coats and dresses. It is not really an accessory, it is the decision the rest of the closet is built around, and it is where the capacity comes from.
- The pull-down hanging rod
- A rail on a sprung arm that draws down to shoulder height, so the top three feet of a nine-foot closet stop being a place you never look. Rated to around thirty pounds, which is a full rail of shirts but not a rail of winter coats.
- Slim drawer towers
- A drawer bank in a reach-in is usually twelve to eighteen inches wide, sitting under the short hang. Fewer, deeper drawers work better than more shallow ones at this width — three deep drawers hold more usefully than five shallow ones and cost less.
- Shoe fences and slanted shelves
- Flat shelves with a low fence hold more pairs per foot than slanted ones and suit a closet you look into rather than walk into. In the floor of a reach-in they are usually the best use of the space below the long hang.
- Sliding belt and tie racks
- These live in the four to six inches beside a drawer tower that is otherwise lost. They pull straight out, so they need no swing room and do not interfere with a bifold or sliding door.
- Tilt-out hamper
- A hamper on a tilt front inside the cabinetry, with a removable liner you carry to the machine. In a reach-in it takes the place of one drawer, which is the trade to weigh — it is the accessory people most often add on the second closet and wish they had on the first.
- Doors, and what they cost you
- Bifold doors eat roughly six inches of the opening when folded back and block one side at a time. A flat sliding panel on the same track costs nothing in floor space but always closes half the closet. Where the room allows, taking the doors off entirely and building an open system is both cheaper and larger.
- LED lighting
- A reach-in is lit from the bedroom behind you, which means you are standing in your own shadow. A strip along the front edge of the top shelf fixes that for a couple of hundred dollars and is the accessory people notice most.
The full list
Everything available for this room
- Double hanging rails
- Pull-down hanging rod
- Slim drawer tower
- Black velvet drawers
- Lucite drawer dividers
- Shoe fences
- Slanted shoe shelves
- Sliding belt rack
- Tie drawer
- Tilt-out hamper with removable liner
- Heavy-duty chrome hanging rods
- Adjustable shelving
- Crown molding
- Base molding
- LED strip lighting
- Deco doors with fluted glass
Questions
Questions, answered
Double hanging, and it is not close. Two rails instead of one roughly doubles what a four to six foot closet holds, and it costs less than most of the accessories on this page. Everything else is worth doing after that is done, not instead of it.
Usually not a full rail of them. The mechanism is rated to around thirty pounds, which is comfortably a rail of shirts or blouses and marginal for heavy wool. We would put coats on a fixed long-hang rail at normal height and use the pull-down for out-of-season or occasion wear.
It depends on the room. Bifolds block half the opening at a time and lose about six inches when folded; a flat sliding panel is neater but still only ever opens half. If the closet is in a room where an open system is acceptable, taking the doors off gives you more closet for less money.
Some of them. Rods, shoe fences and pull-out racks can often be added to what is there. Drawers and lighting usually cannot, because a builder closet has no carcass to hang them from. Send photographs and a rough width and we will tell you which of the two you are looking at.
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