Doors & Partition Panels

Closed where the closet is visible from the bed, open where it is not. Doors keep dust off folded goods and hide visual noise, at the cost of a swing path; open runs photograph better, while closed fronts let a bedroom read as a bedroom on an untidy day. In a walk-in, most clients close the lower drawers and the linen bays and leave the hanging open.

A partition is the vertical panel that separates one bay from the next, and most of the time you never think about it because it lives between two cabinets. It matters in one situation: where a run ends in open room rather than against a wall. That end panel is a visible face, and whether it is edge-banded is the difference between a run that looks built and one that looks cut. Every visible face here is banded for that reason. The second place partitions earn attention is a walk-in where two runs meet at a right angle without a corner body — a finished partition closes the join cleanly. If your closet is a simple wall run between two walls, you will not be specifying partitions at all; the towers already carry their own sides.

Flat slab and Shaker, both in all six program finishes. Slab suits a modern room and wipes more easily; Shaker suits an older house where a flat front reads as an appliance.