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Storage Space for a Home Business
Where do you store invitations for all occasions, birth announcements, holiday cards, personal stationery for adults and children, business stationery, business cards, gift enclosure cards, stickers, labels and note pads? Well, if you’re a home-based business like Noteworthy Papers in New London, you store it in closet designed by Closet Factory.
Laurie Durkin, owner of Noteworthy Papers and mother of four, didn’t have space in her home for a business office. She did, however, have a 6-by-6 walk-in closet in her master bedroom. Durkin saw an ad for Closet Factory in Kearsarge Magazine and said, “That is going to be my closet.”
 Durkin had some ideas of what she wanted shelves on three sides but Irene Bonner, president of Sharon, Vt.-based Closet Factory, steered her in the right direction: a multilayered storage closet with room to stand and move comfortably. “This beautiful pine paneled room needed a lighter feeling, so I designed classic white melamine adjustable shelving with a soft edge for a wide variety of reference binders, samples, card stock and inventory,” describes Bonner. “A hard rock maple melamine counter top softens the look and provides a work surface for organizing shipments and purchases. Sliding chrome baskets and a 7-foot card stock tower finish off the room, keeping everything orderly and organized.”
Bottom shelves hold heavy sample books; top shelves are filled with inventory from towels to baby clothes to gift tags to stationery. The chrome drawers lift out and travel, and there’s a row of hooks to hang items. “The closet was an investment that was well worth it,” says Durkin. “It holds everything I need now, and it is flexible enough to change as my business needs evolve.”
The Durkins have started an addition to their home, and what is now the master bedroom will become Noteworthy’s office. Bonner designed a closet for the new master bedroom and created a mudroom with ventilated lockers for hockey bags and ski boots. “I was so impressed with her thoughtfulness,” says Durkin.
“Our ability to be a custom fabricator enables Closet Factory to utilize and maximize any space to the customer’s organizational, budgetary and style needs,” says Bonner. “I enjoy working with my customers to find the perfect solution that will organize and simplify their home or business.”
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