I used this easy-to-install shelving to create a walk-in closet in my apartment
My walk-in closet. | Anthony Rotunno
It provides space enough for all of the clothes we wear day in and day out, plus coats and seasonal items About four years ago, after a long search that required couch surfing at two different friends? places (with our hairless cat), my husband and I moved into what I would genuinely call our dream apartment. The one-bedroom loft had lots of things to like: 12-foot ceilings, a proper bathroom (an amenity anyone who has loft hunted knows is not a given), and even a pedigree of sorts?it?s inside a Bushwick building that dates to at least the early 20th century, and locals have told us its past lives include a garter factory and a department store.
Blinded by all of these pluses, we did not really see a big minus until after the ink had dried on our lease: The apartment has no closets to speak of. This was admittedly a first for both of us; the six New York City apartments we previously lived in (separately and together) all had a closet of some sort somewhere inside them, whether in an entryway for stashing coats, a bedroom, or both. Our new place did come with two left-behind armoires in the bedroom, but the hulking masses of particleboard seemed straight out of a college dorm and totally weighed down the otherwise open-feeling space. Buying a dresser or new piece of furniture that we actually liked would also weigh it down, we reasoned, and if we went the rolling-rack route, we worried the space would look too much ...
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