Mudrooms are a MUST, in Minnesota… and everywhere where the weather is so cold that mittens, hats, boots, ear muffs, under pants, hand warmers and feet warmers are necessary for survival. Anywhere else, mudrooms are a good choice to keep your home clean of clutter at the entrance, and avoid accidents by tripping on shoes [...]
Entries from May 2008
Mudrooms in Minnesota
May 26th, 2008 No Comments
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Closet Doors: Sliding, bifolds, mirrored and more
May 23rd, 2008 No Comments
An important decision that needs to be made in any project that includes closet sapces has to do with the type of doors you will choose for these areas. Will the door open in? Or out? Why would you want it one way or another? Should it be a slider or a pocket door ? What are the advantages [...]
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Luxury Home Tour 2008
May 15th, 2008 No Comments
The Luxury Home Tour for 2008 is soon starting once again. Every June, for 3 consecutive weekends, the Midwest Home+Garden Magazine organizes this tour of Luxury Homes built in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Area. Multi-million dollar homes are open to the public to visit for a fee.
Last year, Diseño Closets was proud to have provided all [...]
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Form or Function, which comes first?
May 15th, 2008 No Comments
Closets, closets, closets…. some are little, some are huge. Some are narrow, some are wide and square. Low ceilings, high ceilings…doors and windows here, there…
I want my closet system to look this way and that way. I want to open the door and see this beautiful built in just across of it… I don’t really [...]
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Closets, Spaces that demand careful expert design.
May 15th, 2008 No Comments
How are Closets different than the rest of your house? When building a home, engineers are called to calculate the structural needs and specifications of the building. Architects will design the overall shape of the structure, will decide where to locate the living areas, the eating areas, the sleeping areas, with relationship to the phisical properties [...]
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Not Just For Clothes
May 14th, 2008 No Comments
Closets are no longer just a place to hang up your clothing and store your shoes. These days we can design a closet with a built in bench to make tying your shoes more comfortable, or a pull out laundry shelf to help you when folding clothes. We can incorporate laundry machines in our closet [...]
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Clothes Hangers: Which to buy?
May 14th, 2008 No Comments
A good customer of ours called us back for help with yet another closet in her house and, during our visit together, we had a chance to check out the Walk In Master Closet we had designed for her. It looked beautiful! And so orderly! And so clean! There was something about it though that went beyond the system we [...]
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The Housing Crisis: Is it over??
May 14th, 2008 No Comments
According to the Wall Street Journal, it may very well be! We, at Diseno Closets, and all the people in the building industry world would love to know this is true… Read on and may your optimism be awakened!
This article ran in the May 6th issue of the Wall Street Journal… and according to its author, [...]
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