Custom closet and wardrobe system

Custom Closets · San Jose, California

Custom Closets in San Jose.

Closet and walk-in builds sized to a San Jose home's actual structure, including the post-and-beam grid an Eichler-era house was never designed to expand a closet around.

In short

Eichler-era post-and-beam construction built closets to mid-century storage standards, small, and today's remodel market wants a walk-in that fits into a structural bay never designed for one. Crateworks builds to the room's exact dimensions rather than a modular kit sized for standard wall spacing.

Built for San Jose’s climate

Inside a conditioned San Jose home, dry and mild most of the year, a closet built with a reasonable panel core has little to fear from the climate outside. The real constraint here is architectural. Eichler and other mid-century homes across Willow Glen and Almaden Valley were built on a post-and-beam structural grid that does not flex the way a modern stick-framed house does, so expanding a small original closet into a real walk-in means designing around load-bearing points a modular kit was never built to account for.

Climate zone
3C warm-marine
Best time to spec
year-round
What we plan for
a mild marine climate, strong UV, and California Title 24 energy rules

Why it suits San Jose

A mid-century closet built to 1960s storage standards runs small by any modern measure, and turning it into a real walk-in means designing around the load-bearing points a post-and-beam Eichler carries, not assuming a stick-framed wall the way a modular kit does. Once the structure is accounted for, soft-close hardware and full-extension drawers are part of the standard build, not an upgrade.

Container-direct delivery into San Jose and Silicon Valley.

How it ships to San Jose: Freight lands at the Port of Oakland, the Bay Area's container gateway, then a short truck run down to the South Bay.
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Custom Closets types

Custom closet and wardrobe system

Wardrobes

Wardrobes, sourced to your spec.

Custom closet and wardrobe system

Mirror Closet Doors

Mirror Closet Doors, sourced to your spec.

Custom closet and wardrobe system

Bypass Closet Doors

Bypass Closet Doors, sourced to your spec.

How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to San Jose. One order, one point of contact.

One source for the whole project

Building the whole closet & storage in San Jose?

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Aluminum Windows in San Jose

Aluminum Windows, container-direct to San Jose.

Custom kitchen cabinetry with integrated detailing

Custom Cabinets in San Jose

Custom Cabinets, container-direct to San Jose.

Engineered hardwood flooring in a sunlit room

Hardwood Flooring in San Jose

Hardwood Flooring, container-direct to San Jose.

Common questions

Yes, that is a common request. We design around the structural grid rather than assuming standard stick-framed wall spacing the way a modular kit does.
Built to your room's exact dimensions and structural constraints. A modular kit assumes standard spacing, and a lot of San Jose's mid-century housing stock does not have it.
Panel material, hardware grade, and finish, all specced to your room and storage list through /brief.
It depends on the beam spacing more than the wish list. We survey the structural grid first, then spec the largest walk-in that grid actually allows, rather than promising a size before the layout is confirmed.

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Spec custom closets for San Jose.

Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the San Jose delivered price, all-in.

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