With the PAX/Komplement system, designing your own closet is easy. Start with the frame: choose from two heights -- 79" or 93" (6' -7" or 7'-9") and two depths -- 13-3/4" or 22-7/8". (Note: the only interior option for the narrow-depth units are standard shelves, I believe.) Next choose the width-- either 19-5/8" or 39-3/8". Proceed to pick from one of the five finishes available, and you have the frame.
Now's the fun part: customizing your dream closet with interior fittings. For the deeper units,the choices go far beyond the standard rod-shelf-drawer options, and to include jewlry boxes, shallow pull-out shelves with dividers, shoe organizers, and wire baskets, and more, which can be combined in almost limitless combinations. There are a total of 70 pre-drilled holes in the 93" tall unit, or about one hole every 1-1/4" or so, allowing for both great flexibility and precision in the placement of the fittings.
When I got my units, the contractors who installed them couldn't imagine why I would want shallow pull-out shelves installed every three holes, but I knew exactly what I planned to do with it: organize my scrapbooking and craft supplies (see right). That's the beauty of the PAX system: you can--and I do--use it for anything. On a more traditional closet note, I designed one unit as a regular closet, with a rod hung high to accommodate long coats and dresses. Another unit is designed with two rods, one high and one low, for hanging shirts, jackets, and skirts; for both units, I installed a shelf above the rod for storage. I also designed a narrow-width unit to act as a shoe closet; another narrow-width unit houses my purses and our luggage, each piece of which is nested consequetively within eachother.
Because Alpay prefers to fold his clothes rather than to hang them, I designed his closet to have lots of shallow pull-out shelves, including one with dividers for his socks and another for his ties and belts. I liked the effect so much, I installed dividers for my accessories as well.
When I got my system in 2005, pull-out hampers were also available, and so I installed his-and-her hampers. Bathroom storage runs short in our condo, so I added deep drawers with dividers in the master closet to store supplies. I even designed two of the double-wide pull-out shelves in my study to act as our tool-box.