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Hi everybody and welcome to dear Alice.

Today we are talking about closet design.

I love closets.

I do too.

Yeah, I'm so happy that closets have been sort of an iconic thing for us at Alice Lane because the more we

do them, the better we get at them. And I feel like we've mastered so many tricks that we have

to share them at this point. And I love that it's a thing now, too, I think before we all, like,

older homes had this little, you know, tiny teeny closets that were in. Then we'd all have a dresser and everything, but people have full dressing rooms.

And you should take over that guest bedroom and make it your closet and do something fabulous.

So I'm going to tell you all the tricks and tips today.

That's great.

And like Suzanne mentioned, you guys might live in a home that has a small closet. And so when we're doing this episode, you might be like, I don't know how I'm going to do any of these things to my little closet with bifold doors. But to what Sue said, there's probably another room next door to your room. You can knock a wall down and we can make a closet

out of that room and steal off the door or have a second entrance into your closet. So that's

some of the work that we're doing a lot these days is maybe you're an empty nester, maybe you've

had a few kids leave home, maybe you have a few extra rooms in the house. So you can play musical bedrooms and you can

turn that old nursery into your closet. So anyway, picture that for a moment while we are talking

about closets because you too can have a luxury space just for you, just your own private little

dressing room, like Suzanne said. So one of the first things

that we do when designing closets is we kind of figure out what is important to the people that

we're designing for and what luxuries they want in their closet or necessities. It might be a

necessity to them. So you might have always wanted to be able to have a washer and dryer, maybe a stackable

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