Contact Lynn Casanova at 630-204-5679 or [email protected]
"After years as a product manager in corporate America, I turned to my two passions, helping people and keeping life simple and organized. I apply innovation and listening skills to my clients' needs, leading to spaces that are both functional and beautiful."
As one of Closet Works most successful designers, award winning Lynn Casanova makes the entire process of getting your dream custom closet or organization system easy and enjoyable. She approaches each project with the drive, passion and attention to detail that can turn any closet into a work of art. Difficult spaces are no problem for Lynn, and she consistently delivers innovative and imaginative solutions to the most challenging projects. With her diverse knowledge of design styles, techniques and aesthetics, Lynn can bring each customer's unique personality into the space in a way that is both serviceable and great-looking.
Contact Lynn Casanova at Closet Works 630-204-5679 or [email protected]
Lynn's Awards: Honors & Certifications
Each year, Top Shelf Closet Design Awards are given to honor designers for their creative closet and home organizational designs. This is the highest award given in the closet design industry. Lynn Casanova has been presented with this award on numerous occassions — once for a garage design that tackled a challenging space with unique storage solutions, once for a difficult U-shaped finished basement that needed the addition of an enormous amount of storage without compromising the existing living area, and in 2017 for a spectacular walk-in closet. Lynn was honored once again in 2018 for her innovative design approach for a home woodworking shop, further showcasing her versatility and ability to transform any kind of space into the client's dream storage solution. In 2019, Lynn again took home first place for an eco-friendly basement laundry room that solved a lot of challenging issues with pipes and support pillars.
Lynn is veteran designer, certified by the ACSP, Association of Closet and Storage Professionals — the industry's top professional organization.
Lynn's Closets
Custom Walk-In Closet in Wood
Understated Elegance — Master Closet
The understated beauty of this traditional design captures the essence of a bygone era, when ballrooms were busy with beautiful ladies twirling across the floor in full length gowns. Designed to take the place your personal valet, this closet features plenty of organized storage to keep everything in its place, yet always available at your fingertips. The inclusion of cabinets, hanging rods, mirrors, countertops and drawers with custom features like jewelry inserts ensure the ideal storage for all your belongings. Cocoa Cherry stain brings out the natural wood grain and a satin gloss finish compliments this all wood custom closet system.
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Luxury Master Closet with Island
A Place for Everything
This custom closet design for a master bedroom is both elegant and functional. A long island divides the closet into two sections — one for him and one for her. Plenty of shelving and drawers ensure hat no other storage furniture such as dressers are needed in the master bedroom. Putting all the storage in the closet is both a beautiful and functional idea — it frees up bedroom floor space to allow for a reading nook, or even a fireplace! This closet is designed in Closet Works "Portabella Ivory" laminate, conveying a warm, elegant feel to the space while keeping everything light and bright. It's a good choice when there isn't a lot of natural light, yet you want a bit more than plain stark white.
Cedar Closet
A Natural Solution
This custom closet organizes everything beautifully while also protecting the owner's delicate and expensive fabrics. Bright white laminate was used as a dramatic, yet classic, accent to the knotty red cedar walls. The result is an study in contrasts, with the smooth, modern, white laminate against the the rustic, natural cedar panels.
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Cedar Closet with Sloped Ceiling
The odd-shaped ceiling on this closet was used to advantage. The closet organizers follow the slant, with a long hang section installed at the lowest point of the ceiling, maximizing its storage potential.
Master Closet with 360 Organizer® & Reeded Glass Cabinets
Walk-In Closet with the 360 Organizer® Valet
This master closet features plenty of space for everything. Loaded with goodies such as the glass doors that enclose the hanging areas, keeping dust off of clothing that is only worn occasionally and creating an armoir style look within the main closet, plus a a 360 Organizer® rotating storage system. This 360 Organizer® valet installation is configured with four drawers featuring raised panel fronts, plus four deep shelves in addition to the shoe storage on the sides of the unit. Long, bar style handles in polished chrome compliment the vertical lines in the reeded glass doors of the accompanying wardrobe unit for a beautiful, unique, yet thoroughly functional closet system.
Walk-In Closet: A Room Within the Closet
Craftsman Style Closet Full of Built-Ins
This custom closet includes enough amenities and closet organization solutions that you might want to entain inside your closet. Doors enclose most of the hanging areas, keeping the look clean and tidy while keeping dust off expensive evening gowns and clothing worn infrequently. The beautiful custom closet hutch unit along one wall provides storage for accessories, while the look rivals anything you might find in a formal dining or living room. Rare in today's homes, this floor based system creates a built-in look that harks back to the era of craftsman style homes from the post Victorian era Arts & Crafts movement, when high-end, custom, built-in cabinetry with a clean, uncluttered look was a common feature in homes.
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Custom LED Lit Rain Cloud Walk-In Closet
Move Over Kitchens — The Closet is the New Hub of the Home
In a calming rain cloud laminate, this luxurious walk-in is your own private getaway. The design is packed to the brim with striking organizational features and accessories such as valet poles, tie and belt organizers, slanted shoe shelves, and endless storage space. Extending from floor to ceiling, nearly every square inch of this walk-in is practical. Separated into his and her sides, the custom walk-in closet is unified by a magnificent display of LED lights.
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Custom LED Lit Rain Cloud Walk-In Closet
Slanted Shelves with Shoe Fences
The mystifying accessory of LED lights can turn any closet into a modern marvel. The towering slanted shelves, which make it easier to access each pair, capped with helpful fences are illuminated creating a shoecase for a multitude of shoes. Every pair is as important as the last on this magnificent display.
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Custom LED Lit Rain Cloud Walk-In Closet
Strip and Puck Lights are a High Fashion Accessory
This design in its calming Rain Cloud laminate is adorned in lights, bringing forth an enchanting ambience. The design includes drawers, a double closet hutch, hanging space and towering shelves all the while aglow with stylish LED strip and puck lights.
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Custom Walk-In Closet in Craftsman Style
Custom Closet with Hand Crafted Look
This closet design incorporates some of the best ideas of the Craftsman style with its clean lines, built-in cabinetry, originality, simplicity of form, and the visibility of handicraft. This is truly a one of a kind closet that the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement would have loved. A custom closet hutch with mirrored doors spans one wall, offering plenty of storage for accessories and anything else you might want to store in your closet. This hutch includes a marble counter top, and offers similar functionality to a closet island — but with a smaller footprint. The mirrored doors are perfect for checking your hat and/or makeup before heading out.
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Custom Walk-In Closet Increases Storage
Stay Organized in a New Closet Like This One!
Simple, clean, organized with a place for everything is the overall theme of this master closet. A large bank of shelving against one wall is a great closet organizer for shoes, keeping them visible and easy to find. The double hang clothing rods provide twice the hanging storage as a standard closet, even with the increased shelving and integrated drawers spaced throughout the system.
Custom Walk-In Closet with 3-Way Mirror
Perfection in Every Direction
A truly great closet designer will make as many closet components as possible work double duty. This hard working closet not only includes space to store everything, but the enclosed wardrobe style cabinets have mirrored doors that are arranged to create the effect of a 3-way mirror — bringing the experience of trying on and modeling clothes into your own home. Many people who desire an elaborate custom closet like clothes and own a lot of them. A closet like this one will bring the experience of an expensive boutique into your own home!
Cool and Sophisticated Custom Closet
A Palette of Grays
Gray is a timeless and practical color and a really great choice for custom closets! An entirely gray closet can look especially interesting when different textures and patterns are used as shown in this closet designed by Lynn. The brushed chrome hardware and lighting fixtures offer slick metallic gray tones while the walls, in white tinted with gray, provide a very light, matte gray background. The pièce de résistance is the beautiful Vintage gray finish on the custom closet system — a high end laminate that mimics the look of a dark weathered wood. This floor based closet includes matching crown moulding, to further the high end customization of the space. Plenty of drawers and shelves are included in addition to the hanging rods to ensure that everything in this homeowner's wardrobe stays organized in its beautiful new home.
Simple Reach-In Closet
Double Your Space!
An ordinary reach-in closet is common in most homes. The problem is, however, many of them don't offer much storage space in their standard configuration. Lynn customized this reach-in closet with a tall bank of drawers and shelves down the center, plus hanging areas on the sides. Hanging space is increased by the use of double hang rods, and the drawers and shelves create plenty of storage for folded and small items. The overall amount of storage is greatly increased when a custom closet system like this one is installed, eliminating wasted space and making every inch count.
Closet Design for Sloped and Angled Ceilings
Dealing with the Challenges
Designing a custom closet for a room with sloped and angled ceilings can be a challenge. Lynn designed this closet to use the odd shaped space and tight angles to advantage, fitting shelving for shoes and hanging areas under the sloped areas and including a large island in the center of the room with plenty of drawers for smaller items creates plenty of storage, leaves the window unblocked, and looks beautiful as well. Pull-out laundry baskets incorporated into the shelving takes care of sorting dirty clothes while all the clean clothing is organized along the many hanging rods installed around the perimeter of the room.
Closet Fit For a Queen
Storage for 120 Pairs of Shoes
Do you believe that no woman can ever have enough shoes? If so, you need a closet like this one. Ressembling a complete dressing room more than just than a custom closet, Lynn designed this beautiful organization system with room for approximately 120 pairs of shoes. Designed to evoke a regal ambience, this large walk-in closet includes a central storage island centered directly under the teardrop chandelier. Perfect for the woman who likes to make grand entrances, there is ample storage for a large wardrobe. The wall are covered with shelving and plenty of custom cabinets with drawers for folded clothing. The closet also has many hanging rods at different heights to acommodate different lengths of clothing. Even if you're not royalty, wouldn't you feel like a queen in a closet like this one?
Custom Tie Rack
Show Your True Colors
A perfect accompaniment to any businessman's closet, this tie rack does wonders for organizing these formal accessories — and after owning one, you'll wonder how you ever lived without proper organization. The design includes rods to arrange every tie in a wardrobe by color, pattern, funky, or your average Joes. The unit is a built-in design to conserve space and allow the ties to have their own special place in the closet.
Peaceful Living Closet
Home Sweet Home
It would be impossible to not feel the love and warmth when walking into this closet. The window hutch dresser design is inviting to a view of a wholesome white picket fence to be a reminder of home sweet home. Each part of this closet system organizes clothes in a simple fashion with built-ins for hanging and storing folded clothing.
Custom Elegant Arrangement
A Touch of Class
This walk in closet design is in a traditional style with a woodgrain laminate and custom crown molding. There is generous storage space for all wardrobe components including all hanging and folded garments as well as shoes. Glass cabinets add a special touch of class to showcase any favorite pairs of shoes.
Custom Walk-In Closet For Two
Double the Amount of Storage in a Medium Sized Space
Don't let this small space fool you. This custom closet design not only maximizes the space, but does so for two people! Both sides provide hanging that extends into an alcove, offering more room for clothes to be hung. Each side has room for shoe storage for both partners as well. The center component provides drawers, including a locking jewelry drawer with dividers for easy accessibility and safekeeping. An additional unique feature to maximize the space is a pull-out canvas-lined hamper.
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Custom Luxury Walk-In
Solid Wood Drawer Faces and Molding Painted a Beautiful White
In an entrancing white laminate with painted lowland wood drawer faces, this walk-in closet is reminiscent of a palace. This design is loaded with luxury — from full length mirrored doors and glass cabinets to solid wood drawer faces. The painted wood drawer faces and solid maple base and crown moldings are a budget-friendly solution to fufill the desire of opulence. Other custom features include slanted shoe shelves with fences, pull-out jewelry organizers, and a spacious center island dresser.
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Traditional Masterpiece Armoire
A Hint of Antiquity and Outspoken Beauty
Portabella ivory is the perfect choice for creating a beautiful and traditional style design. This elegant armoire provides increased storage space while becoming a work of art in the home. The doors have been doweled together to open up and create delineating features for an overall clean and elegant design.
Summer Breeze Master Walk-In
Uplifting Design with Convenient Accessories
Lynn designed this master walk in closet in an uplifting Summer Breeze laminate with chrome round rods. The design is floor-based with custom molding and also includes convenient engage storage accessories.
Accessorized Reach-In
Personalized Organization
This reach-in closet is a great example of transforming a standard reach-in into a beautiful storage hub with personalized storage. The design includes engage organization accessories including storage boxes and a 24 inch pull-out jewelry organizer in brushed chrome and slate.
Cedar Closet for the Master Bedroom
Large His and Her Cedar Closet
This cedar closet is divided down the center by a penninsula that divides the space into his and her sections. The space is optimized so that both partners can store all of their fine woolens and natural fabric clothing without fear from insect attact. The bright white laminate contrasts with the red cedar panels in an attractive and practical manner, providing abundant storage for these homeowners.
Lynn's Wall Units
Modern Entertainment Center
Turning an Organization System into a Work of Art
Lynn designed this unique entertainment center to not only be functional, but serve as a functional work of art. The modern, floating hybrid design offers storage with a center console connected to a tower of shelves for media related things. The unit is in an invigorating Spring Blossom with a contrasting Morning Dew countertop for visual contrast. A clear glass door in a Bella open frame provides the design with added textural variety to complete the modern look.
Guest Room Wall Unit
Enjoyable & Entertaining
This design for a guest bedroom is in a Summer Breeze laminate with Bella doors and offers a light and enjoyable view to relax in this space — not to mention convenient for extra storage in the home. The unit has been outfitted with grommets and scalloped interior shelves for cords to pass through easily.
Custom Wall Unit
Simple Elegance
The Shaker influence in this custom designed wall unit is evidenced in the choice of door and drawer panel style. The simple, clean aesthetic looks great in both traditional and modern style homes. Having a place for everything and keeping everything in its place. Like traditional Shaker furniture, this custom wall unit embodies the principles of functional form and proportion rather than using ornamentation. Beauty is not neglected, however. The thoughtful placement of doors, drawers and shelves conveys a simple beauty enhanced by the warm wood tones which makes this a timeless piece that this homeowner is sure to enjoy for years to come.
Closet to Armoir Conversion
Traditional Reach-In Closet Transformed into Furniture Grade Armoir
This built-in armoir is a great example of what a creative designer can accomplish, bringing a custom look into the home, while retaining a place to store everything! The transformation from a standard reach-in closet into a furniture style, all wood armoir starts with the removal of the closet doors. The old closet was stripped away and the new built-in was designed to fit into the resulting alcove. The final look is like something from another era, when homes routinely included custom, built-in cabinetry. The all-wood construction with solid wood doors and drawers furthers the high-end look. This unique piece is now the focal point of the home's foyer. Shelves provide a place to display unique art and collectibles, while the cabinet doors on the sides conceal hanging rods and storage for coats. The drawers are a great place to keep gloves, scarves, hats and even umbrellas.
Book Shelf Wall Unit
Home Office Organzation System
These custom book shelves cover an entire wall of this home office. Constructed with furniture grade materials as a custom built-in, this floor based system functions also as the home's private library. The panels are full bore, making the shelves easily adjustable. With a few quick changes in the shelf configuration, this wall unit could easily trsnsform into a custom media center, holding the family television, video and audio equipment as well as books.
Basement Wall Unit
Custom Storage System and Closet
Tired of all that basement clutter? Lynn designed this custom storage solution to tackle just that. This large custom closet system sits in the middle of the basement with doors on three sides, effectively dividing the the big open space into three separate rooms or areas — greatly adding to the functionality of the space while retaining the open floor plan. The custom storage unit is deep, able to hold large items like a spare mattress or big exercise equiptment in some compartments, while other sections are shallower and outfitted with shelving or hanging rods for clothing. This wall unit keeps all the family's camping equipment and other gear organized and ready for the next adventure within an attractive and functional exterior that increases home value.
Custom Contemporary Wall Unit
Fashion Forward Cabinets
This design is a modern and fresh take cabinetry to add style and flare to the home. The contrasting tones of the elongated cabinets and drawers with the upper arrangement add a unique charm to the expansive unit. There is more than enough space for all unsightly clutter and miscellaneous items such as movies, photographs, games, or video consoles.
Lynn's Home Offices & Wall Beds
Home Office for Two
Working from Home
Whether your home office is your primary workplace or just an area of the home used to work on taxes, file bank statements and keep on top of household bills, having a great home office is a definite plus for most households. This home office design accommodates two people comfortably and includes enough separation to make the work spaces provate, yet together. The addition of two large filing drawers, ample wall shelving and media storage keep both workers needs completely satisfied. The color and timeless style of this organization system with built-in desks and wall unit blends seemlessly with the rest of the house, making this work space a truly comfortable addition to the couple's home.
Home Office Redesign
An Orderly Desk Brings an Orderly Mind
This home office nook was a redesign of an office space that was just not working for the homeowner. Lynn redesigned the space, simplifying the design and decluttering the area to make it more efficient. The clean and orderly design helps the homeowner focus and concentrate at the task at hand, while looking lovely at the same time.
Home Office with Wire Management
Secret Hiding Place for Wires
Hidden in this beautifully simple home office design is a complete wire management cabinet system. A set of doors below the desktop offer a hiding place for all cluttering wires. The stylish and convenient workspace is provided with the spacious desktop and array of cabinets, shelves, and drawers for home office storage. The white laminate expands the space always making sure the workspace feels spacious and compfortable.
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Wire Management Cabinet
Solution for Safety
As a solution to pesky and messy wires, this cabinet offers concealment of cords behind a beautiful set of cabinet doors. In a home with small children, wire management doors are not only great for a clutter-free look, but especially important for safety as well.
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Wire Management Cabinet
Concealing the Clutter
With the doors open, you can see how the unsightly wires would take away from the beauty of the design. The outlet is easily accessible and a grommet offers a channel for the wires to travel through to the desktop.
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Blackwood Office Cabinets
Alluding to Nature
These modern office cabinets allude to nature with a soft Blackwood laminate — a color that simulates the African Blackwood tree. The simple, yet refined cabinet design offers an intriguing arrangement with a modern artistic look to create an enriching workspace.
Home Office Wall Unit
Simple Design for the Hardworker
Work can be stressful and working in a cramped space can make it that much more difficult on the busy mind. This wall-to-wall unit is illuminated by the modern light fixture turning this office into a relaxing space to get the job done. This design offers shelving, cabinet, and drawer space to put anything from pens and pencils, file folders, books, photographs, or even a desktop printer.
Basement Wall Bed Design
Converting the Space into Perfect Sleeping Quarters
This wall bed makes great use of available basement space and does so in style! The sleek and modern design has Contempo fronts and large brushed chrome Bar Pulls that truly make a fashion statement. The design is not only stylish but offers you and your guests convenience and comfort.
Basement Wall Bed Design
Bed Folds Down for Instant Comfort
A luxurious queen sized bed folds down and the unit is transformed into resting place with available bedside storage space. A pull-out shelf offers a place to charge a cell phone or set down a glass of water and shelves offer spare storage in the home.
Home Office with Corner Shelves
Less is More
Corner shelves can create a highly functional space in a number of ways. The chiseled edges ease opening and closing a door — leaving plenty of leeway not to crash into any corners. The corner shelves are also a safer option to eliminate the hazard of running into sharp edges. As a whole, less becomes more when the unit is visually condensed to appear less massive. The wall unit retains necessary storage space for a home office while not overwhelming the room.
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Unity Wall Bed
Gorgeous Design Matches Function and Style
As a queen-sized vertical wall bed, this design functions as a generous space to accommodate overnight guests and spare storage in the home. The Unity wood doors are an elegant and stylish option to add a charm to the room. The unit has been designed to conceal and accommodate wires passing through the system with grommets and special scalloped shelves.
Lynn's Laundry Rooms
White Eco-Friendly Laundry Room
Creating a Bright and Cheery Basement Utility Room
Whoever gave basement laundry rooms the reputation for being dark and dreary caves didn't see this one! The narrow, but efficient, L-shaped design lacks windows, but still manages to be bright and cheery. The white on white design evokes a sense of cleanliness appropriate for a laundry area, while reflecting as much light as possible.
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Dark and Sleek Laundry Cabinets
Stainless Steel and Slate
No one likes to do laundry, yet if your laundry space is pleasant and well organized, this dreaded chore can seem easier. Lynn designed custom cabinets in Slate laminate to compliment the stainless steel appliances in the laundry room and elsewhere in the home. They keep all the cleaning supplies stylishly organized. The play of dark and light gray tones, metallic against mat finish creates an understated and relaxing elegance that can make doing the laundry almost enjoyable.
Overhead Laundry Cabinets and Shelves
Bright and White
A bright, white, organized laundry room can make everything seem cleaner, even before it's washed. Lynn designed this laundry room with custom laundry cabinets in white with our simple chrome handles to keep everything simple, cheery and decluttered.
Custom Laundry Organization System
Smart and Spacious
No one likes being confined in a small space when trying to get things done. Chores require moving around and bending, and if there is no leeway, the tasks are increasingly wearisome. This design provides all sorts of space — counterspace to place baskets and laundry supplies, room to fold clothing, and drawers and cabinets to safely put everything away. The unit makes doing laundry a breeze, and maybe even enjoyable.
Custom Laundry Room Cabinetry with Long Counterspace
All the Space You'll Ever Need
Cabinets stretch along the walls providing generous storage space. The lengthy countertop offers plenty of room for folding clothes and placing baskets. The system provides three tilt-out hampers to keep soiled clothing under control. The unit has Mission Shaker fronts and Brushed Chrome Square handles.
Custom Broom Closet Organization System
Convenient & Safe Storage
Having all of your cleaning supplies in one area of the home is convenient as well as safe. You'll always know exactly where your chemicals are such as detergent and spray cleaners and have the ability to quickly grab them when a mess arises. After chores are finished, a lengthy compartment is provided for you to hang your mops and brooms. The unit does not stretch from floor to ceiling as to offer overhead storage and a space below to put a bucket or step stool.
Lynn's Garages
Custom Garage Cabinets
What to Do When Your Garage Has Become the Biggest, Messiest Closet in the House
Garages get messy quickly with overflow from the rest of the home. Investing in a garage organization system like this one not only cleans up the area, turning a once cluttered and dirty area into showplace, but it also increases the amount of available storage. Lynn turned this dark and dingy area into an organized workroom with custom cabinetry that keeps all the homeowner's tools, gardening supplies, sports equipment and children's toys out of site when not in use, but easy to find when items are needed.
Custom Garage Cabinetry For Sporting Equipment and More
Golf Clubs Fit to Perfection
This garage organization system has been designed in a subtle Morning Dew laminate creating a pleasing monochromatic tone for the room. The cabinets have been customized to perfection for all storage needs including an alcove with hooks and a 6 inch lip for golf clubs to be safely stored away.
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Overhead Bike Storage
Double Bike Pulleys
Pulley bike storage is not only great for safekeeping of your bikes, but is a way to free up valuable space in your garage. This garage design included two separate hoists for double the bike storage.
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Suspended Garage Cabinets
In the Clear
Suspended systems are beneficial for a number of ways and especially proactive when used in a garage setting. The cabinets hoisted along the walls ensure that they are in the clear from potentially destructive spills or flooding. These cabinets are Shaker Mission style and in an industrious and smooth Rain Cloud laminate.
Lynn's Pantries
Custom Versatile Linen Closet
A Closet for Anything and Everything
This hallway closet design can be used for a mishmash of things that need a place to go that will help declutter and simplify your home. This design is flexible in which it is the perfect storage system for bathroom essentials, linen, paper products, glassware, and other various home goods. The symmetrical shelving units are balanced around convenient drawers that are constructed spaciously to allow easy access to these items.
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Custom Pantry Design
A Compact Space Fitting All Things Large and Small
How can a compact space fit so much in it? This pantry is the solution in which it's designed with features to absolutely make the most out of the space. With three pull-out shelves, two chrome baskets, and interior shelves, organization and storage of food is made simple. The pull-out shelves provide a crystal clear view of your food and the pull-out chrome baskets offer space for perishable items and snacks. Interior shelves have deep return that can hold numerous cans, jars, and condiments.
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