Contact Nicole Cohen at 331-551-2263 or [email protected]
"I love organization and want to share my passion for closets, mud rooms, garages, or any room needing to be organized in order to utilize the space in the most efficient way!"
Nicole believes that a passion for your work is the key to success. She has put this belief into practice on a daily basis by choosing a career in interior design and space planning. Her unmatched enthusiasm for the work brings consistent success to every project.
Contact Nicole Cohen at Closet Works 331-551-2263 or [email protected]
Nicole's Awards: Honors & Certifications
Each year, Top Shelf Closet Design Awards are given to honor designers for their creative closet and home storage designs. This is the highest award given in the closet design industry. Nicole Cohen has received three of these awards — one for a laundry/mudroom design that also offered a pet station with built-in dog bed, feeding area, and pet closet next to the door that leads out to the dog run. She also received first place for a unique home office design — a bright and cheerful space that makes one feel open to exploring new ideas. Nicole received an honorable mention for her innovative reach-in closet design for a little girl with a very small bedroom. The closet makes the room feel larger and is flexible in its design in order to change as the child grows.
Nicole's Closets
Every Girl's Dream
Master Closet & Dressing Room for Her
This elegant closet/dressing room features a lot of specialized storage. The island includes pull out necklace holders. There is a closet vanity for putting on makeup and styling hair. A purse cabinet stands next to the door. Cabinets that disguise plumbing and electrical connections, plus many more features, make this closet stand out as a cut above the rest.
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Master Closet with Vanity Table
Custom Built-Ins to Help You Get Ready in the Morning
This elegant closet/dressing has all the bells and whistles including this custom vanity table. It features two glass storage towers for makeup, pop-up charging station, pull-out shelf, built-in hairdrying stastion inside a drawer and more.
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Rotating Shoe Closet Storage
360 Organizer® Shoe Spinner Rotating Shoe Shelves
Shoe storage for an extensive footwear collection is no problem when you include rotating shelves for shoes in the closet corner.
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Built-In Jewelry Table
360 Organizer® Sit Down Jewelry Jewelry Center with Acrylic Drawer Organizers
This closet provides an experience similar to a high-end jewelry boutique. Two drawers divided by small acrylic compartments and lined with velvet offer storage for all your jewelry plus a place to sit down while getting ready each day.
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Men's Closet
Walk-in closet with built-in dresser and storage chest.
This walk-in men's closet features many custom built-ins and closet organizers. A built-in dresser sits opposite a custom framed mirror and storage chest.
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Men's Shoe Wall
Women aren't the only ones who need space for footwear.
A wall of shoe shelves in this walk-in closet for him ensure there is room for every pair. The shelves are slanted sothat even the footwear on the top shelf is visible to the eye.
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Bench with Mirror Provides Suitcase Storage
Built-in bench with mirror and storage for suitcases.
This custom closet mirror and built-in trunk offers both a place to sit down and out on your shoes plus storage under the bench for suitcases.
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Closet Organizers with a Hidden Safe
Keep your documents safe as well as your wardrobe.
There's an organizer for everything in this closet. A built-in dresser includes locking drawers for expensive watches but the safe behind cabinet doors keeps papers and valuables even safer.
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Master Closet Retreat
Sloped Ceiling Dressing Room with Closet Island
This expansive closet design was installed using the Haze laminate with brushed chrome round rods. Nicole created a space for the couple that was a storage hub, but also a retreat from everyday life. The room had some sloping walls and also a window but Nicole strategically designed a closet that was able to maximize storage and flatter all of the features of the room.
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Master Closet Retreat
Closet Island Offers Luggage Storage and More
In addition to the dresser storage this master closet island offers, the backside provides shelving and even spacious compartments to store luggage. The centerpiece serves as a beautiful and functional piece of the expansive master closet design.
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Large Wardrobe Unit
Increase Your Closet Space!
This wall unit adds a ton of storage. Not only does it add over nine feet of closet space, but extra features like pull-outs, drawer organizers, pant racks, valet poles, and more mean this homeowner will never run out of room no matter how much their wardrobe grows. A built-in hamper and 12 under mount, soft-close drawers complete this closet created in a beautiful "Winter Fun" laminate.
Escape to Paradise
Premium Closet Offers Premium Organization
Luxury is an understatement in this top of the line design. Comprised of our premium laminate, Weekend Getaway, this custom walk in closet is an escape to paradise. Strategically designed for an expansive wardrobe, this walk in closet offers both double hang and long hang, drawer and shelf space, and a 360 Shoe Spinner. A charming closet hutch is adorned with a mirror and frameless reeded glass cabinets. Asymmetry of long hang sections offers storage for less frequented gowns in the smaller alcove.
Weekend Getaway Shoe Spinner
360 Degrees of Luxury
For someone with an ever-growing shoe collection, a 360 Organizer Shoe Spinner is a commodious luxury. Each pair is on display as in your very own boutique — always at arms reach to pair with the perfect outfit. This rotating shoe rack is complete in a premium laminate, Weekend Getaway.
Built in Armoire & Vanity
Beautiful and Functional
A further look into this premium custom walk in closet reveals a built in armoire and desk. The modestly-sized desk can be used as the perfect vanity with storage space above in the frameless reeded glass cabinets for cosmetics.
Master White Closet for Sloped Ceiling
Contempory Storage Solutions
In a generous master space with a sloped ceiling, this walk in closet is completed with a contemporary look and a variety of storage solutions to maximize the unique layout. The design is in white with Contempo door and drawer fronts and includes brushed chrome Bar style handles.
White Chocolate Reach In
Elevating Simplicity
The simplicity of this custom reach in closet is charming — providing all the key essentials to outstanding organization. Closet storage is a breeze with both double hang and long hang, drawer and shelf space for folded clothing. The unit is outfitted in a White Chocolate laminate that elevates the simplicity of the design.
Fashionista Closet
Stylish & Sweet
This walk in closet arrangement is perfect for the young fashionista — allowing her to showcase her lovable wardrobe. With hanging for designer blouses and skirts, drawers for loose items, and shelving for shoes and accessories this closet has everything covered for easy organization!
Simple White Reach In
Easy Does It
As simple as this design may appear, it's a great example how your home's standard reach in closet can be upgraded to a bright, clean look and make organization that much easier.
Hall Shoe Closet
Shoe Organization for the Entire Family
An entire closet devoted to shoes? That's right — a storage hub for the entire family to keep track of their footwear. This simple and ageless design conforms to the room with spacious shelves wrapping around the corner to maximize storage capacity for all sneakers, boots, and sandals.
Linen Closet
Towel Storage Galore
An expansive closet organization system was created for linen storage with shelves stretching nearly from floor to ceiling. This spacious closet can keep all blankets and sheets perfectly organized in once place for the whole family to share.
Guest Closet with Framed Mirror Closet Hutch
Increased Storage with Valuable Assets
This simple and clean organization system offers further organization with an array of spacious shelves and accessories including a wire basket laundry hamper, valet poles, and velvet lined jewelry drawers. The corner of the closet creates an alcove for the hanging rod to stretch into — maximizing storage where these components intersect.
Guest Closet with Framed Mirror Closet Hutch
Further Accommodation with Accessories
A further look into this spare closet displays the extravagance of storage potential with a beautiful framed mirror closet hutch. The generous closet offers additional accessories including belt, tie, and scarf organizers.
Wardrobe for Little Girl
Everything Perfectly Sized — Like in a Doll House
This part of the home was left for a little girl to have her own special place for dress-up — her own real life doll house. The walls were unique and slanted and the perfect solution was to build a small wardrobe and set of drawers to fit under the slant. This way she can keep all of her favorite dress-up items in one place.
Breakwater Walk-In with Shoe Spinner
360 Degrees of Sophistication
In a warm grey Breakwater laminate, this closet has a degree of sophistication to go along with the 360 degrees of shoe storage. A shoe spinner model rests in the corner of the room offering generous storage. This walk-in closet is a floor-based system providing double hang, closet drawers, as well as accessories for bonus organization.
Breakwater Walk-In with Shoe Spinner
Simplicity in Style Creates Depth
This closet is a floor-based style created in a Breakwater laminate with Contempo drawer fronts and round knobs. The seemingly simple hardware and drawer fronts in combination with the Breakwater grey creates a depth in sophistication and style.
Guitar Closet
While My Guitar Gently Gets Organized
Does it get any more custom than this? Nicole designed this reach-in closet to store and organize this client's treasured guitar collection. Each shelf has an aluminum trim to keep the laminate shelves from getting damaged by the hard cases.
Built-in Closet Dresser
Closet design that makes the bedroom seem larger.
Children's closets present special challenges. This one is part of a small bedroom that belongs to a little girl. We removed the closet doors an placed a built-in dresser inside the closet so that there would be more open area in the bedroom. Hanging areas are hidden in the deep returns of the closet.
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Slanted Ceiling Hanging Arrangement
Artistic and Functional Display
This beautiful arrangement of closet hanging has mastered both aesthetic and maximizing organization. The ceiling slants to about 68 inches and the lowest part of the unit starts at 67 inches — making sure the design makes the most efficient use of space. Adding an artistic touch, the design is in a Haze laminate.
Slanted Ceiling Master Closet
Frameless Glass Adds to Variety of Textures
In a challenging room, Nicole was not only able to maximize the space, but tastefully stylize the space with a number of different textures. Haze laminate, frameless frosted glass inserts, and oval brushed chrome rods create a dynamic look for this sloped ceiling master closet design.
Holiday Storage Closet
Perfect All Year Round
This reach in closet was designed to accommodate holiday storage including dividers for wrapping paper, wire baskets for bows and gift wrap, shelving for decorations, slide-out shelves, plus additional bonus organization perks. The closet comes in handy all year round for holiday storage but especially during the season to keep clutter to a minimum when the time to wrap all those gifts approaches!
Nicole's Wall Units & Media Centers
Home Gym Entertainment Center
Home Gym Storage
This home gym with custom built-in storage and center media console inspires and increases the desire to exercise. The custom wall unit provides a place to keep workout gear and accessories to supplement the treadmill and big machines located in the basement of this home while the area for the TV and media components provides entertainment.
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Home Gym Accessory Storage
No More Couch Potatoes
Get in shape while you watch TV! This entertainment center for a workout room includes home gym storage cabinets on either side of the TV for accessories like boxing gloves, water bottles, towels, weights, and more.
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Entertainment Center for Bedroom
The Ultimate Late Night TV Viewing Experience
This floating entertainment center sits on the wall opposite the bed, providing the perfect viewing experience for watching TV in bed. Because this master suite includes two closets with ample storage, no dressers or other furniture was needed in the bedroom. Can you possibly think of any better way to enjoy late night television?
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Bedroom Entertainment Center with Lighting
Floating Media Center with Storage
No need for night lights. This floating entertainment center has a built-in lighting system that elevates it to a work of art. It also includes some lower cabinets used to store bed linens. It's an entertainment center, art light show, and linen closet all in one
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Built-In Bedside Table
Floating Table with Pop-Up Charging Station
This bedroom includes a built-in bedside table on either side of the bed. The units are suspended from the wall, leaving the floor space underneath open. A charging station for small electronics like mobile phones is built into the countertop.
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Rec Room Media Center
Light and Airy Feel to Lower Level Space
This rec room features a cozy spot for watching television. The modern floating media center is big on entertainment, but small on space. It doesn't bombard the eye with clutter. Instead, the simple, streamlined design seems to literally float against the wall, making this basement room feel light and airy.
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Floating Wall Unit
More Rec Room Storage
It's easy for finished basements to feel oppresive due to their location underground. But not this one. The minute you enter, this storage wall unit at the bottom of the basement stairs establishes a light and airy mood. It's classy, floating design doesn't weigh the space down, making it easy to forget you're on a lower level of the home.
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Custom Banquette
Storage Under the Seat
You'll never run out of space for your game table accessories with a comfy banquette like this one that doubles as storage. Cabinets under the seat mean there's always room for more. An organized closet in the clorner handles playing cards, board games and the rest.
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Banquette Storage Cabinets
Flip Open and Closed
The easy banquette storage cabinets flip open and closed with Touch Latches. No handles are needed for these under the seat storage cabinets.
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Family Room Office Center
Sophisticated Storage
Simply calling this a beautiful design would be an understatement for this fully functional, high style family room wall unit. This design has everything from custom corner shelving with smoked glass shelves, warm LED puck lighting, and office accessories including file drawers and pencil pull-outs. The family office wall design is in a sophisticated White Chocolate laminate with a desktop in our Weekend Getaway color.
Haze Credenza
Modern Credenza Adds Style to Home
Designed in a beautiful Haze laminate, this custom credenza adds a unique flair to the room while also being extremely practical for storage. Round brushed chrome knobs and Villa drawer and door fronts gear towards a modern aesthetic with traditional accents.
Floating Credenza
Custom Wall Unit with Modern Flair
This modern credenza fits snuggly under the window, adding both storage and dramatic flair to the home. The floating design is also functional. It allows the small space between the window sill and the radiator to be used for storage without blocking any air flow.
Nicole's Laundry Rooms & Mudrooms
Custom Laundry Room Cabinets
Overhead storage with flip up doors.
View of the laundry room storage cabinets highlighting the custom cabinetry. The cabinets above the washer and dryers all use flip-up doors for easier access to items stored overhead. The cabinets to the right of the sink include a hidden trash pull-out.
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Built-In Ironing Board in Laundry
Laundry room with built-in ironing board and bench seating.
This custom laundry room includes a built-in ironing board that folds out of a cabinet. It is located such that the owner can look out the window and watch TV while ironing.
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Laundry Room Pet Station
Chores are easier when you do them with your best friend.
This laundry/mud room organization includes a pet station. Cabinets on either side of the built-in bench organize pet supplies. A built-in dog bed and pet feeding station under the bench ensure the owners will always have their best friend nearby to keep them company while ironing and washing clothes.
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Laundry Room Built-In Hamper
Even dirty linens need a place to call home.
Located around the corner from the kitchen, this laundry room built-in hamper provides a convenient place to stash those dirty dish towels and wash cloths until laundry day.
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Mudroom Organizer
A place to stash the backpack and jacket.
The rear entrance to the home includes a small mudroom bench/cubby with hooks for jackets, an overhead cabinet for hats, and a lower cabinet for shoes. This serves family members when they are in a hurry and want to get in and out fast. It’s also a spot to stash the jacket and backpack of after-school friends during their visit.
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The Drop Zone
A place to drop off your keys, mask, and more.
The rear entrance often becomes the "drop zone" — the place where everyone leaves stuff when they walk in the door. This mud room design takes that into consideration and provides cabinetry with hooks and built-in chargers to organize it all.
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Walk-In Coat Closet
There's always room for guest's coats in this house.
This extra walk-in coat closet off the main mud room provides long-term storage of outerwear for the entire family. This closet near the back door means there's always room for guest's coats in the front entry closet.
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Laundry Storage
Pantry pull-outs are a great addition to the laundry room.
These handy pull-out organizers don't need to be limited to the pantry. The shallow sides are great for keep all sorts of small items from falling off the shelf and the fact that they pull forward like a drawer adds extra convenience.
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Combination Room Customization
Design to Complete a Well-Rounded Room
This versatile room presented an opportunity for versatile design — including custom cabinets that would tie together a laundry room, mudroom, and also dog wash. Bella five piece fronts and brushed chrome Metro handles offer a transitional style with modern accents of beautiful frosted glass inserts for the raised cabinets.
Combination Room Customization
Laundry Room Cabinets for Multipurpose Room
Introducing an organization system to your laundry room can ease up the workflow and create a relaxing environment that you can admire. These cabinets are dressed with frosted glass inserts and Metro handles and are centered between helpful hanging rods and shelves.
Laundry Room Shelving for Small Space
Efficient & Elegant System Creates a World of Difference
It's amazing how much impact an organization system can truly make in a compact room. Laundry shelving such as this design in Corretto Cherry allows increased storage and creates a world of difference with a more efficient and elegant space.
Mudroom Closet for Room with Farm Sink
Creative Storage & Organization Solution
This custom creation is a creative solution to best utilizing storage and organization in a room with a large farmhouse sink. In the closet, towels are easily hung on the hooks and also easily disposed in the pull-out wire basket. The design is in a sleek black and has a white interior.
Mudroom Closet for Room with Farm Sink
Sleek & Modern Storage
This modern mudroom utility closet is in a smooth, dark black with polished chrome Metro style handles. The sleek design is able to conceal any clutter including dirty towels and hand towels.
Nicole's Pantries
Pantry with Dry and Cold Storage
Get ready to stock up!
No worries about not having enough room in the refrigerator if you have a pantry like this one. In addition to providing ample storage for dry goods, this pantry includes space for an extra refrigerator/freezer that supplements the one in the kitchen. The pocket door means every square inch of space can be used for storage.
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Pull-Out Baskets Are a Pantry Essential
Store Your Root Veggies and Protect Delicate Chips
These pull-out baskets provide the kind of convenient storage every pantry needs. The wire pantry baskets include plastic liners on the bottom to keep crumbs from falling through the wire slats.
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Rotating Shelves & Vertical Tray Storage
360 Pantry for Corner Storage
Custom pantry organizers like the 360 Organizer® rotating corner shelves along with the vertical tray storage and water bottle x-style storage ensure there's room for everything in this pantry.
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Pantry Design for Difficult Space
Organization and Beyond
This area presented angles that could potentially limit pantry storage but this design has proved otherwise. This charming design in white with contrasting oil rubbed bronze hardware offers all the assets for pantry organization and more. The design includes vertical tray dividers, wire baskets with plastic liners, and a convenient pull-out shelf for dish towels and napkins.
Custom Pantry Spice Rack
Shoe Fences Become Spice Fences
Working in a challenging space proved to bring about many opportunities for pantry organization including a charming spice rack created on the adjacent wall with shoe fences.
Small Pantry with Pull-Outs
Small Pantry Big on Storage
This small pantry design is packed with storage solutions that are transformational for the compact space. Included in the design are pull-out shelves, a wire basket, and deep shelving for additional pantry items. The pull-outs make it incredibly easy to access items in the small closet.
Walk-In Pantry
Baskets and Pull-Outs Maximize Storage All Year Long
This small walk-in pantry makes the most of every inch of space. A combination of standard shelves, corner shelves and pull-outs ensure that there will be space for everything, even during the busy holiday seaon when pantries tend to fill up.
Nicole's Home Offices & Wall Beds
Work From Home Bliss
Open Yourself to New Ideas
With so much time spent working from home this past year, the client wanted a new home office where she could feel inspired and be productive. It needed to allow for quiet concentration while also keeping her available for her school-age son(s).
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Bright and Cheerful Space
Creative shelving Solution
Because the room is narrow and not that large, Nicole decided to design the storage in such a manner that it would look like it was floating in the room. This would visually help keep the space open and uncluttered.
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Preview Media While You Work
Office and Media Storage Combined
The main wall unit, and focal point of the space, is composed of upper and lower storage sections. The lower “credenza” includes deep file drawers on the sides. A cabinet with a pull-out shelf to hold the printer and other supplies sits in the center.
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Closet Becomes Home Office
Creating Better Uses of Your Extra Space
Closet Works has a great reputation for creating the best possible uses of your space, including this custom home office design by Nicole. Nicole was able to take this spare closet and tranform it into a peaceful, quiet desk and work space.
Corner Office
Built-In Desk and Shelving
This built-in corner desk offers the greatest work area and storage for the amount of space availble. Crown moulding above the shelving was chosen to reflect the trim used throughout the home.
A Better Work/Life Balance
New Construction Home Office
When you work long hours, the office often becomes your home away from home. So why not locate your office inside your home? A properly designed home office can be instrumental in a better work/life balance, leading to more family time, better health, and even increased productivity.
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Home Office Wall Unit
Custom Built-Ins for Storage
The plan was for the room to be used daily as the client’s primary workspace. An organized area with storage components designed to keep everything in its place so that the office always looks its best was a priority. Since this office is located next to the entry foyer, it is the first room people see when visiting.
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Home Office Storage Cabinets
Custom Built-Ins for Storage
Three tall cabinets provide storage for office electronics and other supplies. The 24-inch depth is enough to handle any printer or small office equipment the client might want to add in the future. Two 20-inch-wide mini credenzas with shelves above appear to float between the tall cabinets.
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Garage Cabinets and Custom Storage
A Place for Everything
This custom garage storage system and work area provides a place to work on projects while ensuring the garage always remains orderly and neat with everything in its place.
Garage Wall Organization
Omni Track System to Hang Tools
Lawn tools, snow shovels and gardening gear is all organized and off the floor with this Omni Track garage wall organization system installed on one side of the garage.