Easy Closets: Affordable Storage Solutions for Everyone

Make every closet hold more with easy DIY upgrades!

Easy Closets shows homeowners how to get the most available storage space from the closets they already have in their homes. Through easy-to-follow text and 350 photographs and illustrations, including installation sequences, you will learn how to select and install closet-system components available at home centers, hardware stores, and specialty closet retailers.

Many homeowners complain about a lack of closet space, but in many cases it is not a lack of space — it is how that space is used! This practical guide introduces a variety of closet types and closet systems, then walks you through easy-to-build projects that improve the organization and functionality of both standard and custom-built closets.

Inside this book, you'll find ideas and step-by-step guidance for:

• Coat closets and mudrooms to keep entry areas neat and easy to use
• Kids' closets that make clothes, shoes, and gear simple to store and find
• Main bedroom closets that hold more and keep stored items easy to reach
• Linen closets and kitchen pantries for cleaner shelves and faster grab-and-go storage
• Closets on a budget using components like shelves, rods, drawers, and bins
• Utility, garage, and basement storage to organize tools, supplies, and household overflow
• Closets that do more with unique storage ideas for everyday living
• Closets where there were none with guidance on adding new storage where you need it

You will also find dozens of practical tips for closet lighting, organization, ventilation, and moth prevention, plus organization tables that show how much space typical clothing and household items need for neat, easy-to-reach storage.

Upgrade any closet so that it holds more and stored items are easy to find, and improve existing closets or add new ones in bedrooms, entry areas, mudrooms, kitchens, basements, garages — everywhere you need neat, organized storage — with Easy Closets!

Joseph Provey is the former editor-in-chief of Family Handyman, Mechanix Illustrated/Home Mechanix, and Practical Homeowner magazines. He has authored several home improvement books, including the Creative Homeowner titles Outdoor Kitchens, Toro Expert Guide to Lawns, Design Ideas for Flooring, and Successful Container Gardening as well as many articles for national home and garden magazines. Provey began his career as a carpenter and now lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut.