Closet Drawers built into a finished walk-in closet

Drawers

Closet Drawers

Two heights, three widths, on soft-close runners — installed inside the tower, not bolted on afterwards.

Closet Drawers in cabinet-grade melamine, three-quarter view

In short

What it is for.

Drawers are supplied in a shallow 6-2/7 inch height for accessories and folded knitwear, and a deep 12-3/5 inch height for jeans and sweaters. All five sizes run 24 inches deep on soft-close slides and mount inside a standard tower, so a drawer bank can go anywhere in the layout rather than only at the ends.

  • Two useful heights6-2/7 in for jewelry, belts and folded shirts; 12-3/5 in for denim and knitwear. Nothing in between, because nothing in between earns its space.
  • Soft close as standardFull-extension runners that catch and draw themselves shut in the last inch.
  • Divider-readyThe pull-out organizer divider drops straight into a shallow drawer without a separate insert kit.

Specification

Built to these numbers.

Built to these numbers.
Widths21, 24, 30 in
Depth24 in
Shallow height6-2/7 in
Deep height12-3/5 in
RunnersFull-extension, soft close
BoxMelamine, matched decor

Drawers

How this one is specified.

Drawers are the most expensive foot of a closet, so what goes in them decides how many you need. They earn their cost on small loose items — socks, underwear, belts, watches — that do not stack and become a pile on an open shelf within a week. Anything that holds its own shape in a stack is cheaper and easier to use on a shelf.

Two heights are made rather than a ladder of sizes, because in practice only two are useful. The shallow drawer at 6-2/7 inches keeps its contents in one retrievable layer; the deep drawer at 12-3/5 inches is for bulk that is genuinely bulky. Deeper than that and the bottom layer stops being reachable and starts being archaeology.

Widths are 21, 24 and 30 inches at a 24-inch depth, installed inside the tower rather than bolted on afterwards, on full-extension soft-close runners so the back of the drawer is actually usable. Interiors are divider-ready for the drawers where small items would otherwise migrate. The 24-inch depth is listed with the other core closet measurements in the closet dimensions cheat sheet.

Every size above is built in any of the six finishes; pulls, LED strips and pull-out hardware come from the accessories and hardware catalog.

Further reading: Cost Per Square Foot vs Linear Foot, His and Hers Closet Design, Shelf or Drawer? How to Decide.

Bank of closet drawers installed in a finished closet

Visualized

In a finished room.

The closet drawers working in a finished room.

Sizes

Every cataloged size.

All dimensions in inches. Any size in this table is a stock component — not a special order.

Every cataloged size.
SKUWidthDepthHeight
DR21DN21"24"6 2/7"
DR24DN24"24"6 2/7"
DR30DN30"24"6 2/7"
DR21DH21"24"12 3/5"
DR24DH24"24"12 3/5"

Gallery

Every angle.

10 images of the closet drawers — in room, in studio, in use, and in close-up.

Closet Drawers built into a finished walk-in closet
Closet Drawers built into a finished walk-in closet
Closet Drawers in a custom closet room
Closet Drawers in a custom closet room
Closet Drawers in cabinet-grade melamine, three-quarter view
Closet Drawers in cabinet-grade melamine, three-quarter view
Closet Drawers in cabinet-grade melamine, full view
Closet Drawers in cabinet-grade melamine, full view
Close-up of a white drawer bank corner: the banded top edge and the shadow gap above a handleless drawer front
Close-up of a white drawer bank corner: the banded top edge and the shadow gap above a handleless drawer front
Closet Drawers styled with clothing and accessories in use
Closet Drawers styled with clothing and accessories in use
Closet Drawers in Logwood Grain melamine
Closet Drawers in Logwood Grain melamine
Closet Drawers in Grey Linen melamine
Closet Drawers in Grey Linen melamine
Closet Drawers with integrated LED lighting
Closet Drawers with integrated LED lighting
Closet Drawers as part of a full-wall custom closet run
Closet Drawers as part of a full-wall custom closet run
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Film

Twenty-four seconds.

A slow pass across the closet drawers.

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Detail

Closer in.

  • Closet wall with drawer base cabinets, LED rails and glass center tower

Questions

About the Closet Drawers.

  • How many drawers fit in one tower?

    A 84-inch tower will take up to six shallow drawers or three deep drawers in the lower half while leaving hanging or shelf space above. Most layouts use a mix of two deep and two shallow.

  • What is the drawer box made of — is it dovetail?

    The box is melamine panel in the same decor as the run, not a dovetailed timber box. That is worth understanding rather than glossing over, because the two are built for different loads. A dovetailed hardwood box earns its cost in a kitchen, where drawers carry cast iron and get opened several times a day for twenty years. A closet drawer carries folded clothes and jewelry, and the failure people actually report is never the box — it is the runner. That is where this program spends instead: full-extension soft-close runners as standard, so the back of the drawer comes out where you can see it and the drawer never slams. Three things are worth asking any supplier, in this order: are the runners full-extension, are they soft-close, and is the box the same decor as the cabinet. The last one matters more than it sounds: a white box inside a walnut run is the detail that makes a closet look assembled rather than built.

  • What sizes do closet drawers come in?

    Widths of 21, 24 and 30 inches at 24 inches deep, in two heights: shallow at 6-2/7 inches and deep at 12-3/5 inches, on full-extension soft-close runners.

  • Are deep drawers better than shallow ones?

    No. Below the top layer a deep drawer stops being retrievable, so several shallow drawers deliver more usable storage than two deep ones for the same height of cabinet.

Start here

Tell us the room. We will tell you what fits.

A field measure, a dimensioned drawing and a fixed price — in that order, before anything is cut.