Closets are 'Snowflakes'

By Kim Kaiser for Wood Digest July 2007 issue

Closet Works eliminates mistakes with the help of software integration

Like many companies, Closet Works started from meager beginnings. In 1987 without an installation van, Mike Carson, owner of the Elmhurst, Ill.-based company, carried the panels and shelves for his first job from the basement of his Chicago home down the alley to the client, says Kristina Ferrigan, marketing director for Closet Works.

Carson used the profits from that first job to buy an installation van. "We started in my basement, and I guess the key is we grew without any capital and we grew by my doing every job," Carson says.

Everything Closet Works makes is design made to order. "Our closets are going to be more like snowflakes," Ferrigan says. "There are no two that are quite the same."
Ferrigan says that since a closet is such a custom space in a home, it is rare to ever find two identical closets. This is true even in condominiums where the floor plans are the same in each unit, she explains.

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