After too many long winter months and several spring false starts, it’s finally summer here in Minnesota! If you’re like nearly every other Minnesotan, you’re maximizing your outdoor time and soaking in all the beautiful sunshine and fun summer has to offer! This also means you are likely to be spending more time in your …
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Garages account for, on average, a whopping 45% of a home’s square footage. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, garages tend to be the place where homeowners stuff items they don’t know where else to put. While most homeowners do not plan for clutter to overtake their garages, it simply happens because, without proper …
We recently re-connected with a client of ours for whom we designed and installed a custom walk-in closet system. He had recently put his home on the market and he commented to us that the walk-in closet had been one of the big selling points of the home. Closet System Return on Investment Questions about …
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The State Fair is over, the kids are back in school, and we’ve detected a slight chill in the air. This can only mean one thing, fall is on its way and soon after that (too soon for many of us Minnesotans!), winter will arrive. Is your garage ready for winter? Is there space for …
Characterized by warmth and simplicity, natural textures and materials like wood or galvanized steel, elements of modern farmhouse design have been finding their way into more and more homes. Think kitchens with warm wood details and white shaker cabinets or living rooms with textural features and natural embellishments. It’s not surprising then that these same …
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Our garage is the the first area of the house to welcome us home and the last area we see when we leave. It’s also an area of the home most of us use to store a lot of items, from lawn supplies to tools to snow shovels. Does the current condition of your garage …
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As we write this, it is March in Minnesota and Mother Nature has recently delivered another 5” or so of snow. For those of you who don’t live in a winter climate and are blissfully unaware of the psyche required to ensure a long winter, let us enlighten you. It doesn’t matter how much snow …
Any Modern Family fans out there? If you happen to watch this show on ABC, you’re probably aware that one of the main characters, Jay Pritchett, owns a custom closet company, Pritchett’s Closets & Blinds. Jay’s worst enemy is Earl Chambers, who betrayed Jay 30 years ago when he started his own company, ‘Closets, Closets, Closets, …
Do you have someone on your Christmas list who is notoriously hard to buy for? Perhaps a spouse or a parent or grown child? Or, are you looking for thoughtful Christmas gift ideas the recipeint will use and appreciate all year long? Break out of the gift box this Christmas with a unique and creative …
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Here at Closets For Life, we like to say that there isn’t a challenging closet layout we can’t conquer. Our proclamation was recently put to the test (and thankfully conquered!) when a client came to us with a unique closet dilemma, two bedroom closets with curved walls. Luckily, with a bit of ingenuity, technology and …
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