Custom Closets Lawrence, MA

Why Choose Mad Garages and Closets for Custom Closets?

Four questions come up on nearly every Lawrence job, usually inside the first five minutes at the door. Will it hold up. Will your truck fit on our street. Can a room this size hold a real closet. What does it cost before we commit to anything. The rest of this page answers those four, in that order.

High Quality Materials for Custom Closets

Ask what the panels are and you should get a material back, not an adjective. Ours are thermally fused laminate with 3mm edge banding on every exposed edge.

In a three-family downtown, the bedroom walls are rarely flat and the floor is rarely level. Every vertical gets scribed to your wall and shimmed at its base. That step is what keeps a drawer running square five years in. A custom closet cut to a drawing and then forced into a crooked room will bind by the second winter.

Closet Installation in Lawrence, MA

Your block was laid out on a grid before anyone owned a car, and most of these streets have no driveway to speak of. Tell us when we measure which side sweeps and on what day, and whether there is space behind the house.

We stage out of one van where we can. Panels come up the front stair in sections, and we draw those sections to your stair width rather than to a standard. Say at the measure if the stair turns twice, or if the door at the head of it is narrow. That changes how a custom closet gets broken up before it is cut.

Design Options to Match Your Style

A typical bedroom in a Lawrence three-family gives you one narrow custom closet candidate, a door that swings inward, and a window on the outside wall. That room holds more than its closet does.

The wall beside the door usually has dead space that will carry shelving to the ceiling. The corner behind the door will take a shoe tower. If two of you share that room, hanging gets split into two heights so nobody reaches over anybody. A light finish makes a small room read bigger, which matters more here than in a house with space to spare.

Quality and Craftsmanship Built to Last

Everything is cut from a drawing you approved. If a panel arrives chipped, or bored in the wrong place, we replace that panel rather than asking you to live with it.

Drawer slides are full extension and the hinges are soft close. You should be able to load a drawer with folded jeans in year six and still push it shut with one finger. All wood products carry a lifetime guarantee.

Affordable Pricing for Every Budget

Price on a custom closet tracks three things. How many feet of wall you are covering. How many drawers you want, because a drawer box costs several times what a shelf costs. And whether the fronts get doors.

A single reach-in rebuilt properly is the least expensive useful thing we do. We quote the room in front of us, and that quote does not move unless you change the drawing.

Locally Owned and Operated in Massachusetts

The shop is at 8 Industrial Way in Salem, NH, and everything is cut there before it comes down to you. A large share of the housing here is two and three units, often with an owner living in one of them, so we are used to planning a day around another household’s schedule.

We work across the Merrimack Valley, and the full list is on our service areas page. The same crew builds custom closets in Methuen and Haverhill.

Custom Closet Questions from Lawrence Homeowners

Our kitchen has a small pantry closet that is as much of a problem as the bedroom. Can that go in the same job?

Yes, and it is usually cheaper to do it on the same visit than to bring the truck back. A pantry gets drawn differently from a wardrobe. Shelf spacing goes tighter, depths go shallower so nothing hides at the back, and the lower run gets pull-outs so you are not kneeling to find the rice. Ask for it on the same drawing and the same quote.

Our bedroom has an open alcove with a curtain rod across it instead of a real closet. Can anything be built into that?

An alcove is often easier to work with than a framed closet, because no door limits how wide the drawers can be. We build to the full opening and finish the front edges, since they are on show. You can hang a curtain in front of it, add doors later, or leave it open with the hanging set back so the drawer fronts are what you see.

We are on the third floor and the only closet is in the hall, shared by three bedrooms. How do you split that fairly?

By zone rather than by shelf. One vertical bank each, floor to ceiling, so everybody owns a column instead of arguing over a rod. Shared items go up top. If that hall closet is all you have, we also look inside each bedroom for a shallow run, because one closet asked to serve three people fails however well it is fitted out.

Everything we own is in bins on the closet floor, because there is one shelf and one rod. Where do bins actually belong?

Off the floor and above the hanging, if they hold things you touch twice a year. Bins on the floor are what happens when the top of a closet is a single shelf too high to use. A custom closet turns that into a proper deck sized to the bins you already own, with the floor left clear. What stays at floor level should be shoes on a rack, not storage you have to move to reach anything.

Contact Us for Your Custom Closet Project

Call (603) 865-1444 or send the form. We come out, measure, and leave a drawing with a price on it. If the honest answer for your room is a rod and a shelf done properly rather than a full build, we will say so at the visit.

For local information, see the City of Lawrence website.