Mar. 08, 2019

Closet Works Walks Away with Two First Place Trophies in 2019

More Top Shelf Winners!

This year's ceremony for the Top Shelf Design Awards — a design contest for the top designers in the closet design industry, was held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Winners were officially announced during the NASCAR Hall of Fame celebration. Closet Works walked away on top with not one, but two First Place awards for the categories of "Closet: Reach-In" and "Specialty: Laundry and Mudrooms".

Top Shelf is a highly competitive contest, with storage professionals from all over North America competing for this prestigious recognition. This year's honors were hard won and well deserved. Our 2019 winners include:

Teri Magee: 1st Place in the category of Closet: Reach-In for her design From Drab to Fab
Lynn Casanova: 1st Place in the category of Specialty for her design From Industrial Basement to Modern, Residential Laundry

A Few of The Closet Works Top Shelf Trophies

2019 Top Shelf Submissions

Closet Works designers had a total of 15 entries, some designers entering more than one design. Categories included:

Garage: under 600 square feet; Garage: over 600 square feet
Home Office: under 150 square feet; Home Office: over 150 square feet
Closet: Closet: Laminate under 18 linear feet; Laminate over 18 linear feet; Closet: Wood over 18 linear feet; Closet: Reach in
Specialty: (craft, pantry, laundry, mudroom)
Wine Cellar

Closet Works Designers Entries:

Molly Anderson top shelf 2019 specialty entry — Molly Anderson

Gerry Ayala top shelf 2019 specialty entry — Gerry Ayala

Gerry Ayala top shelf 2019 closet entry — Gerry Ayala

Lynn Casanova top shelf 2018 woodshop specialty entry — Lynn Casanova

Greg Cetera top shelf 2018 closet entry — Greg Cetera

Nicole Cohen top shelf 2019 specialty entry — Nicole Cohen

Lisa Cote top shelf 2019 large walk in closet entry — Lisa Coté

Lisa Cote top shelf 2019 specialty entry — Lisa Coté

Lisa Cote top shelf 2019 small walk in closet entry — Lisa Coté

Janine Crixell 2019 top shelf specialty entry — Janine Crixell

lisa lauren 2019 top shelf beverage center entry — Lisa Lauren

teri magee 2019 top shelf closet entry — Teri Magee

lina meile 2019 top shelf closet entry — Lina Meile

sue tinker 2019 top shelf closet entry — Sue Tinker

2019 Top Shelf Awards

2019 1st place Winners:
Teri Magee - From Drab to Fab
Lynn Casanova - From Industrial Basement to Modern, Residential Laundry

Lynn Casanova's 1st place laundry room design:

"At first glance, the modern storage seems straightforward and uncomplicated, but in actuality, it is any thing but simple. The tall, narrow cabinet between the washers and drayers sits in front of a load bearing basement post that supports the floor above it. The cabinet provides storage for detergent, fabric softener and other laundry aides, while disguising the support structure. The cabinet is designed to be removable in the event that access to the post is ever needed. Furthermore, the laundry cabinets and drawers surrounding the sink area also used to hide basement pipes while providing storage. The owner preferred drawer storage over a more traditional cabinet under the sink area. This required the installation of custom cutouts in all three drawers in order to bypass the pipes under the sink." See More...

Teri Magee's 1st place closet design

"The clients live on the 48th floor of a 35-year-old Chicago high rise with spectacular views, but limited storage space. The home features separate "his" and "hers" reach-in closets, but the storage was not working for them and couldn't hold their extensive professional wardrobes. The condo was an extremely tight area to work in without much natural lighting. Both closets were equal in size and built in an odd L-shaped configuration, with hanging on one side and shelves on the other. There were ceiling variances in both closets. The L-shaped closets were originally covered by two sets of bifold doors. The problem with them was that they had a lot of under-utilized dead space in the corner of the "L," since the bifold doors tended to block access to the back corner of the closet. We needed to open up that space to increase the storage potential of this home. " See More...

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