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The closet in my master bedroom is 12ft long with 2 sliding doors, 4ft each. It is built along a wall that has a sloped roof, like an attic. Right now the rod is 66 inches from the floor and that gives me a depth of 28 inches. I thought of getting a system from the Container Store but when I went online they only do closets up to 104 inches wide. Has anyone used a less limiting closet design system that will allow me to go up to the 144 inches (12 feet)? I would also really like to be able to get two levels of rods in at least half the closet. I don't have much need for long dress storage in that closet so I could almost double my space if this could be achieved. thanks

Any of the closet system services like California Closet will visit your home, take measurements, help you plan a custom installation, manufacture the components, and install them.

sherrywood

For a DH you need at least 40" to accomplish that objective. The hanging needs at least 24" depth, so measure 12" away from the back wall and see where that takes you for installation of a rod.

What I have done in the past is 40" AFF (Above finished floor) and hang a rod to hang pants folded over a hanger, or shirts. then put shelves above for folded clothing and shoes.

54" to 60" AFF is a good height for 3/4" hang.
Measure your clothing lengths from top of hanger down to bottom of clothing Each person is different in height.

If you are going to do the job yourself you will need to angle cut the end panels behind the tops of the panels.

If you hire out, they will have to customize the units and that will cost a bit more, but is necessary to use all the space efficiently.

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My longest jacket or shirt is about 32 inches from top of hanger to bottom of garment. If I went up from floor to height where depth is 24inches, I am still only at 68 inches. The slope in the ceiling from the roofline limits the height in the closet and that is the issue. I don't want to extend the closet at all. At the other end of the room are built ins with shelves and closed doors so I really only need hanging space in the closet. Right now it just looks like such a waste beneath with only the one rod going across the top. Maybe custom is the way to go afterall to really maximize the space. Bummer though. For our last house we went to the Container Store and got an awesome system that we then had installed. It had worked so well. I should look into whether I could get away with two 6-ft systems from the Container Store. Just thought of that. But then again the savings over custom might not be that much.

Good luck with that. I am not familiar with the container store closet items. If you like that system and know it well, you can just put double like you mentioned.

Your biggest problem is the sloped walls...most closet systems need more height than you've got. While your clothing may measure 32 inches, you need to account for the hanger as well. I doubt you can get anything useful out of rods hung at 34 inches apart. I have the same issue, BTW...bedroom in converted attic!

Top of hanger to bottom of clothes is 32-33 inches. Yes, the sloped wall is the problem which is why I really want to maximize the space as much as possible. The room itself is about 30ft long and 14ft wide but at the entrance there is 12ft on either side of the entry way that is already closet space - my closet on one side and DH's on the other. I don't want to expand the closet into the rest of the room. I already have too much clothes. Some people in my neighborhood have the whole space as closet. I have the rest of the room as a sitting area off my master bedroom where I have the TV and my husband has his treadmill. I don't want to give up that extra sitting space. At the end of the room on either side of the window I have built in shelves. Some open some closed. I just started using some of those shelves of folded items.

Sherry,

Closet maid has a system where you can use uprights on the back wall. Then brackets insert into the uprights with linen shelving.

You can adjust the shelves at any time. It will also allow to make enough room (width) that you need for hanging garments. The rest of the shelf remains usable for hanging garments.

I use this system in all my closets and even the pantry.


http://www.closetmaid.com/en-U...s/Pages/gallery.aspx

If you go to tha min page there is a my designs section so you can create what you need for the space.

Good LUCK!

Do you have drywall on the back of the closet?

Oops! Missed that...top of hanger to bottom of garment...must need new glasses. So, part of the closet could be double rod, for sure. In mine, I have plastic drawers below the short hanging clothing. Not pretty, but practical. I don't have nearly the height you have, so I could never put double rods up. And because it's deep, there are shelves behind the hanging rods, but they are useless, for the most part, as you have to move everything on the rod to access them.

Good luck finding what you need!

If you have someone come in and design your closet be sure and don't let them tell you that something cannot be done, it happened to one of daughters, she had slant shelves put in for shoes and the designer said that they had to a certain width and my daughter wanted them narrower for just 1 pair of shoes and the designer had them fit 3 shoes( now who wants this?) and this made the space for dress hanging some inches narrower, now she has to hang some of her dresses in a spare room closet which is okay but not what she wanted. You would think that when you spend several thousand dollars you could get what you want and not what the designer wants. Maybe the system did not have the right length of rod to fit the dress hanging area, I don't know but I would think that these rods are long enough to be cut to fit. This was a California Closet system.

Wanda

I agree that you should look at the Closet Maid system that Beau's Rose suggested. I think Home Depot carries it. I am looking at it for my own closet that I am thinking about revamping. It is very adjustable and seems to be able to adapt to any size.

Forgot to mention. It's an easy install also. We use the wall anchors and then longer drywall screws to install the uprights (standards).

There is also a horizontal piece that you can use. It goes across the back of closet space horizontally. Then the standards hang off of it.

Here is a link.

http://www.lowes.com/ProductDi...l=nofollow&cId=PDIO1

The uprights come in 3 or 4 different lengths. Easy to customize to your needs. Here is a pic of my pantry. I have rearranged the shelves as this layout didn't work for me. But it's still the same system.

One of The Husband's biggest gripes about the closet systems is that there is a tendency to have tooooo much space between the shelves.

Hence, 4 or 5 of his lounging pants are stacked on top of each other. If he wants the bottom pair, he has to just slow down and very carefully pull them out, which never happens and he just ends up shoving the other pairs back. He doesn't like that. (Not my closet so I don't care.)

The solution is simply to add more shelves closer together. So we did. He was happy.

HOWEVER, not all closet systems can be done that way.

Our home came with some installed, and once I pointed this feature out, The Husband quickly removed them!

Beau's Rose has the "good" type of shelving, which is adjustable. This is what we'll be installing in the next few weeks.

Compare her adjustable shelving to what came with our house. We've already removed the shelves so I can't take a picture of them. So I found a picture on the Internet that was exactly like what we had.

These are not adjustable. For OUR purposes, they have too much space between the shelves which is wasted.

http://www.homeimprovementland...helves-installed.jpg

So, think about the various systems, and what they have to offer.
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Indexlady,

We used to have that also. The new type is so nice since it adjusts. For hanging, you just clip on "J hook brackets and the rod". My DH has one hanging shelf across the top of closet and then shelves for fold-up clothes.

The shelving doesn't get "sticky" either like the old stuff.

PS: The site will walk you through figuring the materials. The stores (HD/lowes) will cut the shelving to your requested length also. I usually do 2 inches shorter than the whole width to leave 1 inch on each side. HTH.

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The shelving doesn't get "sticky" either like the old stuff.

Oh, heavens... the stickiness on what we (er, I mean The Husband) took down!!! Ewwww.

Lots of options! Once you have your 'design' all set, then you can find some parts from some systems and some from others to retrofit into your space. Just concentrate on one thing at a time.
Hanging can be from a wooden pole, steel oval rod, to wire. This is the simplest to accomplish. The shelving (to have them functionally closer together as mentioned) in the right places you want.

When we lived in Virginia, we made our own closet system out of MDF and painted it. AND I was able to have my shoe rack as I wanted, with only room for one pair of shoes per shelf. lol

This left side of my closet shows Shoe shelf is on the left, then 14" deep for folded clothing, then hanging.

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