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[quote=Anonymous]I have a small primary bedroom walk-in closet with a nearly square footprint.  It's small so we can only have rods and shelves on the back and right-hand wall. The front wall mainly fits the door/doorway.  And the door opens inward against the left wall.  Even if the door opened out, there's not room for rods and shelves on the left.  So it's an "L-shaped" closet layout instead of a "U".

We moved into a 3 BR townhome without kids, so I kept the Primary Bedroom walk-in and my husband took the 3rd Bedroom traditional closet for his space.

We installed our own custom organization for the space using components purchased at Lowe's.  Mainly a large corner tower.  The solid MDF shelves (no wire) and rods are mounted on walls on one side and the tower on the other.

Overall the large tower adds a lot of storage space for stacking things like jeans and towels.  I like it and would put it in again.  It's sort of rectangular.

It also works well, even though I'm female, with ladies' clothes, to have two rods spanning the same space (a higher one for shirts and a lower one that I also use for tops but a man would use for pants).  We planned the closet so a man and a woman could share it.  This side is very space efficient.

The other side has a single high rod spanning the full length.  But I put a small organizer on the floor in the middle and connected a lower rod between the tower and the organizer.  The organizer is a 3-shelf unit that holds bras, underwear, and socks in bins.  This organizer functions somewhat like a dresser.  So, the only full-length hanging area in the closet is about 25% of the width.  I have very few dresses but this space can feel a little too small.  I've considered removing the organizer to get more full-length hanging space and more floor space but don't want to give up the built-in half-length rod to the left of the organizer.

I've had this built-in for 20+ years.  So far it's been pretty space-maximizing.  I'm glad we put it in ourselves.  I think I did a good job of planning around my typical possessions.  And we only spent about $400  and it looks pretty good.

The one quality problem we've had is too long a run of unsupported solid MDF shelves on the long side.  I hate the bulky metal support brackets that go under the middle of shelves. Both for aesthetics and for blocking movement of items in the vicinity.  So I didn't put them in.  On the long side, the shelves are slightly bowed now after 20 years.  I am considering whether to remedy that or live with it.  I only put light things like dress shoeboxes up there.  It's maybe an inch of sag across 5 feet of shelf. Enough that you only notice if you stare at it.  The short side has zero sag (it's more like 3 ft of shelf).

We also customized our downstairs coat closet with IKEA components.  That went really well. We put in a central tower and extra shelves on both sides.  We didn't need a full-length, full-width closet just for coats.  This space has been very valuable for organizing our downstairs.[/quote]

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