OCTOBER 2019 • LONGISLANDPRESS.COM 71
INSIDE JOB
CLOSET ESSENTIALS
Closet space
appears larger
with mirrored
wardrobe
doors.
A center
island serves as a
focal point and adds
beauty and utility to
the space.
As a designer assesses the client’s
needs, preliminary layouts will
get tweaked to address any specific
requirements.
To add extra space in the closet, you
can knock down walls in a bedroom,
but that adds significantly to the budget,
warns Reich.
“Once you start moving walls, it’s
a much more complicated project,”
Reich says. “It could mean changing
air conditioning, floors. It just opens
up a lot of issues that can come up.”
LIGHTING, FLOORING,
AND MORE
High hats and chandeliers, often used
for closet lighting, create a roomwithin
a-room effect, notes Teich.
Other lighting techniques include
dropping down crown molding from
the ceiling and adding LED lighting
to create a glow on the ceiling, Teich
says, adding that placing puck lights
into built-ins and glass cabinetry will
spotlight what’s contained within
them when you turn on the lights.
A custom center island with a glass
top allows you to both see watches,
jewelry or sunglasses displayed below
in a velvet lined drawer and also
utilize the glass surface.
Whether you have carpeting or wood
floors in the room, you typically continue
the flooring into the closet or
you can choose something completely
different, explains Teich.
“We can do a whole inlay design,” Teich
says. “We could do painted floors
in a pattern.”
Beveled mirrors add beauty, utility,
and make the space look larger, says
Teich.
Another consideration are wardrobe
doors, which, Teich says, look beautiful
from the outside and can be
utilitarian on the inside, with built-in
shelves for shoes and boots.
“If you’re lucky enough to have a
room that you can open the door and
walk into and it’s your closet, you
want to make it into an experience.”
Teich says.
Credit: Adam Cassino Design for Symmetry Closets
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