**Updating to add a couple of useful (hopefully) points.
1. If you are getting this for your house, there are two basic versions of the closet pieces, one that hangs on the wall bracket and which would have been easier to install, and one that is floor standing, which requires much more shimming, trim work, etc. and which is much heavier and probably costs more to ship.
2. If you are doing the floor version in particular, pay attention to the molding around the bottom of the wall. Measure how high it comes, and how deep it is, and where it sits in comparison to the wall segments. This is important because if you measure from the corner of the drywall on one wall to the corner on the other end, they will ship you a complete custom closet set that is exactly that big, and if you did not take into account that you have 5/8 of 6" tall molding on either wall, you now have to remove all that molding, cut it to fit around both the wall units and their decorative trim, and you need to remove the molding on the back wall. My molding was very high, so when the closet pieces were installed they show where I had to remove the molding, so I had to first sand, plaster, refinish and paint the wall behind before I could install the first piece. Had we used the wall hanging version of the closet we could have avoided all this. The sales associate was on a video call with my wife prior to the purchase, and yet it showed up the way it showed up requiring me to do a lot more custom finishing trim work.
I recommend before buying get on the video call and show the person EVERY WALL FLOOR TO CEILING in the planned space. Measure all the areas, accounting for molding near the floor or ceiling, chair rail, wainscotting, or any other thing, and have them watch you measure.
3. I noted in the original review that the accessories are very expensive. They are. $80+ for a tie rack, $40+ for a belt hook, etc. But in addition to these high prices, shipping 4 accessories (so they'd match all the other stuff) is also $80. They offer purchasers a 15% off code for the 60 days after your order on accessories that offsets about half of the shipping cost. So full price accessories + $40 shipping. In the age of Amazon Prime, this seems excessive.
4. We got the drawer fronts that you have to screw handles to, then screw to the drawer body. The included screws for the handles were not great. One broke off. Two others did not fully tighten. Most of them were not fully flush with the drawer body, meaning the drawer front wobbles a bit after install. I got some flatter headed stainless screws that worked better to replace the one that broke off. Didn't bother to fix the other ones but I might someday if it bothers me enough.
Rest of original review below. (with a few other edits)
The company that flipped our house used these in the other closets and we decided to try to match in the one closet they didn't do. I've traditionally used Elfa and I can pretty much get an Elfa closet installed in 2 hours including the trip to design and pick it up.
This easy closet setup was 5 bays, and the installation took about a day and a half of constant work. Two people were required for most of the work. You do have to get down on the floor with very short screwdrivers to get the bottom shelves connected, and up on a ladder to get the top shelves hooked up.
The closet also came drop shipped, so you need to have a place that a guy with a pallet jack can bring the 8' long pallet and set it down. Shipping was expensive. It is very long and heavy and I could not have brought this from the store in my car as it was, unlike an Ikea or Elfa closet setup.
The closet is almost all fixed shelves, so non-flexible, very heavy, takes up a lot of space itself, and was tetchy to install. Drawers were all slightly wonky. It is custom designed so not flexible to switch bays at build time, or change bays later. The two adjustable shelves are cut
Hanging bars are rough and scratch super easily. Accessories are more sparse and suuuuper expensive.
This build in this closet was about 3x the cost of Elfa. It is Ikea-quality MDF. It is far more difficult to build than Ikea. In the end it looks just okay.
The materials were good, and it was cut and packaged very precisely. The instructions were thorough, and sometimes a little complex, but relatively straightforward to follow. It's certainly better quality product than generic closet stuff you'd buy at hardware store, but I would expect it to be for the cost.
If you are a professional builder or handyman and you have the shims and the chop saw and the wood filler, and the router, and some extra screws, and a large space to work, and you love to caulk, and your walls are plumb, and you want something that looks almost built in, this can be a good way to go. I would never have bought this had I known how hard it was to install, and how expensive it would be, and I regret not knowing this ahead of time. read more