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Sound familiar? Take heart: the home-improvement industry is on the case, helping closets step out of the closet and take over large portions of American homes. The yearning for more and better closet space is being answered by interior designers, storage-component companies and residential developers. Indeed, for many...
It cost Rood $54,000 to turn a small bedroom into the closet of his dreams. A bit excessive for most folks but maybe not by much. David Weekly, a developer whose company builds moderately priced houses in six states, says his typical customers are demanding bigger closets and the...
The desire to get organized is a major stimulus for all this closeting. (That and the fact that on average, Americans buy about 75% more clothes now than they did 10 years ago, according to census data.) A 2005 survey by Rubbermaid claims that more women said they wanted to...
Sue O'Gara, 49, outfitted 10 closets, from bedroom to mud room, in her home in Northbrook, Ill. "I know it's a complete luxury," she says of her white melamine shelves with room for as many as 200 pairs of shoes. "But it seems to have become a necessity...
Susan McSweeney, mayor pro tem of Westlake Village, Calif. (median home price: $1 million), likes to carry a stylish handbag. But for her to invest $300 to $400 for a new Cole Haan, she figures she should carry it every day for a year. "I get tired of the same...