Here are some photos of my closet. I used these plans as a starting place. If you look, you will see I essentially built three units, one for each wall, and attached them using "bridges". I added drawers with soft glide closing slides for the rich feel. On the main hanging rods, the ones they sell in your local hardware box store and quite expensive (about $30 for an 8' length), so I bought chainlink fence bars, which cost $10 for a 10' length, and took some 0000 steel wool to them, and then polished them. They look like chrome. For the corners, I could not find anywhere what I wanted, which was a rod that would mimic the shelf above it, which is two 45 degree turns. So, I bought a 10' length of 1" electric conduit, and cut it in half and then put two 45 degree bends in each piece. I did this right in the store with their conduit bender and it took all of like 10 minutes. Then, when I got them home, I simply cut off the ends to the exact size needed in each corner. I used a "U" socket on each end, and a hanging loop in the middle. Both corners cost me less than $20. The drawer glides were on Amazon, and were $120 for 15 pairs of soft-close glides with the brackets (Get the bracets, as they are not that expensive, and will make installing these glides much much easier.
Another money saving thing I did was the double doors. The store does not stock double doors, and they must be special ordered, at a cost of almost $275, and would take 4-6 weeks to get. So instead, i bought two 24" single pre-hing interior doors, and removed the frame on each one where the door would latch. I removed both headers as well, and used one of the side for the top. I used a spring loaded ball socket for the less used door, and installed the indent plate for the ball socket where the latch would have gone if used as a side frame for the doorknob (I hope that made sense). Basically, I put two 24" pre-hung doors together to make one double door. It cost me $130 and a couple hours labor, to make a very nice double door.
I used sanded birch plywood, all connected with Kreg-Jig screws and wood glue, stained with Minwax Jacobean, and used a satin clear on the main portion and semi-gloss on the drawer fronts for that "rich" look. The entire closet cost me between $800 - $1,000, with everything, including the plywood, 1x2's, screws, stain, clear, drawer glides, handles, and misc.
I would not have known where to begin without the help on this site, and once I got going, I was able to modify and improvise along the way to fit my needs. Thanks.
