Everything people ask before they order.

A reach-in closet in the ClosetX program typically runs $1,200–$3,000 installed, and a walk-in with an island typically runs $4,500–$12,000 installed. The two biggest cost drivers are linear feet of cabinet and how much of the run is drawers rather than shelving. We quote a fixed price from a dimensioned drawing — there are no allowances that move at install.

Two to four weeks from the approved drawing for most projects: the build takes two to four weeks once you sign off the dimensioned drawing, then installation is one to two days on site. The design and quote before that take two to four business days after the field measure. Reach-in closets are usually installed in a single day.

Three-quarter-inch cabinet-grade melamine panel with heat-applied matched edge banding, drilled on a 32 mm system hole pattern. Drawers run on full-extension soft-close slides and doors hang on concealed soft-close hinges.

The limits follow from the construction: a decor layer fused to an engineered-wood core. A cut edge is raw core until it is banded, so an unbanded edge chips and takes on moisture; a deep scratch cannot be sanded out and refinished the way solid wood can; and the panel is heavy for its span. Banding every exposed edge and carrying shelf load on system pins rather than on the panel face answers most of it.

Day to day the trade-off is repairability. A scuff on a sealed melamine face wipes off where a painted finish would need touching up, but a gouge that reaches the core cannot be filled and refinished invisibly the way solid timber can — the damaged part is replaced instead. Because the program is built on a 32 mm system hole pattern, replacing one shelf or one door is a component swap rather than a rebuild.

Melamine decors come in a very wide range, because the decor layer is printed before it is fused to the core — solids, wood grains and textures are all made the same way. What decides a project is the range a fabricator stocks and can match across panel, edge banding and fronts. The ClosetX program is built on six: three wood grains (Downy Wood Grain, Natural Oak, Logwood Grain), two solids (Matte White, High Gloss Black) and one texture (Grey Linen).

No. Melamine-faced panel is ordinary cabinet and closet material across Europe. The question usually comes from a different use of the same word: melamine resin is also molded into food-contact tableware, and that use is what draws scrutiny. A closet panel is not tableware — the resin here is cured into a decor layer fused to a wood core, not shaped into a bowl that holds hot food.

For closet interiors, yes, in the ways that matter. Melamine is dimensionally stable across seasons, so shelves stay flat under folded weight; the surface is sealed against moisture and abrasion; and it costs a fraction of veneered plywood for the same span. Solid wood is the better choice for a visible face frame or a piece of furniture, not for a 36-inch shelf that has to carry sweaters for twenty years.

Pale, low-sheen finishes suit small or windowless closets and warmer mid-tone oak suits open walk-ins, because the light and the layout decide more than taste does. Small or windowless closets read larger in a pale, straight grain or a low-sheen white, which also hides fingerprints far better than a gloss face. Open walk-ins where the cabinet body is the finished surface carry a warmer mid-tone oak well. Gloss black works as an accent on a door face, not across a whole room, and a fine woven texture stays quiet on long runs.

24 inches for anything you hang, 15 inches for anything you shelve. A standard hanger is about 17 inches wide, so at 15 inches deep garments have to sit at an angle and sleeves rub the door. For folded goods and shoes, 15 inches keeps everything within reach instead of hiding it at the back.

Two heights cover almost everything: 82 inches for an upper rod and 40 inches for a lower one. In an 84-inch tower that splits the run into two 40-inch sections, which is what shirts, jackets and folded trousers need. A long-hang section for dresses and coats takes a single rod at about 66 to 70 inches, which leaves around 60 inches of clear fall for dresses and long coats with the hem off the floor; anything above that is wasted air.

Twelve inches from the back wall to the center of the rod, in a 24-inch-deep section. A standard hanger is about 17 inches wide and hangs front to back, so 12 inches centers the garment and leaves clearance at both the wall and the door. Leave at least 2 inches between the rod and the shelf above it, or the hanger hooks will not clear.

Five feet wide by four feet deep, and only with cabinets on one wall. A 24-inch-deep run plus the 36-inch walkway you need to stand and turn in uses 60 inches exactly, so 5 feet is the minimum and about 5 feet 6 inches is comfortable. Putting cabinets on two facing walls needs seven feet — 24 plus 24 plus a 36-inch aisle. Below those numbers the doors and drawers collide and the room works better as a reach-in.

Twenty-four inches deep by 36 inches wide is the practical floor. The 24 inches is fixed by the hanger, not by preference; the 36 inches is what one hanging section plus a single tower needs. Narrower than that and you lose the tower, which is where most of the storage actually is.

It works, but it is tight. Fifty centimeters is just under 20 inches, so this is the same question asked in either unit. A standard hanger is 43 cm wide and hangs front to back, so at 50 cm you have about 7 cm left for garment bulk and door clearance — bulky coats will press against the door. Sixty centimeters, which is the 24 inches we build to, is the depth at which garments hang square and nothing rubs.

It is Project 333, a dressing challenge published by Courtney Carver in 2010: pick 33 items and wear only those for three months. The count includes clothing, outerwear, shoes, accessories and jewelry, but not underwear, sleepwear, loungewear or workout kit, and everything else is boxed and put out of sight rather than discarded. As a capacity figure it is a useful one: of 33 items perhaps 20 to 25 actually hang, and at roughly an inch of rod per shirt and two for a coat that is about 30 inches — a single three-foot section. Most reach-in closets are built for several times that, which is usually the real finding.

Both — ClosetX supplies the components and installs them. Most projects are supplied and installed by our own crew. We also supply components to builders, remodelers and designers through our trade program, with the same drawings and SKU list.

84 inches for every tower in the program. Under a 96-inch ceiling, a 12-inch ceiling cabinet closes the remaining gap so the run finishes flush at the top with no dust shelf.

Yes, within the wood-grain finishes. Downy Wood Grain is available on both closet and kitchen cabinet panel, so a closet run and a kitchen can be specified as a matched pair rather than two finishes that nearly agree.

A room at least 12 feet wide. The island is 24 inches deep, so with 24-inch-deep cabinets on both walls a 12-foot room leaves exactly the 36-inch walkways the island needs; at 13 feet those walkways become a comfortable 42 inches. Below 36 inches, island drawers and cabinet doors start to collide.

Yes. Every tower carries a full-height 32 mm system hole pattern, so shelf heights are reset by lifting the shelf and moving four pins. No tools and no drilling.

Yes. Recessed LED strip can be run into shelf edges, cabinet tops and glass display shelves, in warm or neutral white, dimmable, with an optional door-activated switch. It is specified at design stage because it changes the panel routing.

ClosetX is based at 2999 Pacific Dr Ste C, Norcross, GA 30071 and serves metro Atlanta — including Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Duluth, Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Roswell, Suwanee, Buford, Lawrenceville, Marietta, Sandy Springs and Atlanta itself.

Yes. The exact cover and its duration are set out in writing with your quote, so you have the terms in hand before anything is ordered. Ask us and we will send them with the component list.

Yes. Send dimensioned plans or elevations to info@closetx.com and we will return a component list and fixed quote without a site visit. We still recommend a field measure before anything is cut.

Melamine looks cheap where its edges and its light are ignored. An unbanded edge shows the raw core, chips and takes on moisture, so every ClosetX panel carries heat-applied matched edge banding on every visible face. The decor matters as much: melamine reads differently under a north window than under a showroom LED, which is why samples go home with you before anything is ordered.