KW · § IV Spaces · By the room Twelve kinds of room
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Custom closets & storage, room by room

Twelve kinds of room.
One discipline.

A closet is not a category — it is whichever room of yours wants order. We have done nearly everything from a 24" reach-in to a 600 sq ft dressing room on three runs. These are the kinds of room we build into. Short on square feet? Start with space optimization & smart storage.

White-oak dressing room with lit hanging bays and a stone-topped drawer bank, design concept
Custom reach-in closet with double hanging, drawers and LED lighting, design concept
Built-in walnut library shelving and desk, design concept
Built-in walnut wine wall with lit bottle racks, design concept
White-oak dressing room with lit hanging bays and a stone-topped drawer bank, design concept
01 · 48 — 600 sq ft

Walk-ins & dressing

Hanging, drawers, islands, integrated jewelry, leather inserts, full-height pier mirrors.
Custom reach-in closet with double hanging, drawers and LED lighting, design concept
02 · The prewar bedroom

Reach-in closets

Two-rod hanging, drawers behind doors, surface valet, scarves on a roll.
Walk-in pantry with glass-front cabinets and a marble counter, design concept
03 · Working & appliance

Pantries

Glass-fronted dry goods, drawer-pull spices, hidden appliances, china storage on linen.
Mudroom with an oak bench, painted cubbies and brass coat hooks, design concept
04 · For the household coming home

Mudrooms & entryways

Metal pegs, locker per person, a bench for unlacing boots.
Built-in walnut library shelving and desk, design concept
05 · Built-in shelving + desks

Studies & libraries

Recessed desks, library rails, secretaries, linen-faced doors, leather-topped surfaces.
Custom laundry room with blue-grey Shaker cabinets and a stacked washer-dryer, design concept
06 · Linen, pressing, hand-wash

Laundry rooms

Pressing tables, drip drying, lined linen drawers, ironed sheets on rollers.
Built-in walnut wine wall with lit bottle racks, design concept
07 · Climate-controlled cellarage

Wine rooms & bars

Timber racks, glass enclosures, integrated cooling, library ladder, decanter shelves.
Custom garage storage with grey cabinets, a workbench and bike wall, design concept
08 · For the country house

Garages

Slatted hanging walls, ski & surf, tool walls, dog wash.
Custom children's closet with low hanging rods, cubbies and drawers, design concept
09 · Built to grow

Children's rooms

Adjustable rails, soft-close drawers, reachable cubbies, low metal pulls, room to add.
Walnut Murphy wall bed with side storage towers, design concept
10 · The room that becomes two

Murphy beds & wall beds

A counterbalanced wall bed inside a wall of cabinetry.
Custom closet doors in reeded glass and walnut with brass pulls, design concept
11 · The quiet hinge of a room

Custom doors

Passage, pocket, pivot — solid-core, concealed-hinged, hung true.
Rift white-oak custom kitchen cabinets with an island, design concept
12 · A few each year, designed whole

Select kitchens

A few each year — the cabinetry as architecture.
A note on scope
If you don't see it

The question is never what kind of room. It is what kind of order. Music libraries, dog rooms, art-storage walls, paper archives, one Murano-glass vitrine — write to us. For wall-to-wall cabinetry, wardrobe walls, libraries and integrated storage, see custom built-in storage in NYC.

  1. I Speak with a designer Tell us about the room. Thirty minutes on Zoom, no obligation.
  2. II Service areas, in full Every neighborhood the install van knows, from Tribeca to the East End.
  3. III The material library The wood, finish, metal and leather any of the twelve rooms can be drawn in.

Twelve rooms. Yours, drawn once.

Sketch the one you'd want to live with, or begin with a sixty-minute conversation.

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