Fairfield was founded in 1856 by Captain Robert Waterman, a clipper-ship master who named the town for his hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut. Solano County voters later moved the county seat there from Benicia, and the town incorporated as a city in 1903. Between downtown and the valleys to the south the houses change a great deal, and a closet plan that suits one block will not suit the next.
Fairfield homes and what they mean for storage
- Downtown edge: single-family houses from the 1950s and 1960s beside the commercial corridor, with older apartment buildings to the south, as the city's downtown plan describes it. Bedroom closets of that period are modest, so a reach-in fitted with two hanging levels and a bank of drawers gets more out of the same opening.
- Cordelia: the southwest part of town, built up from the 1970s with detached homes of three to five bedrooms, mostly off Lopes Road and the Green Valley and Suisun Valley roads. Bedrooms that size usually come with a walk-in, so one side is given to long hanging, the other to shirts over a bank of drawers, and a wall of shelves takes the shoes.
- Green Valley: Green Valley and Vintage Green Valley, with homes mostly from the 1970s through the 1990s on larger parcels, some of them on acreage. More house and more land bring more equipment, so the garage is planned as a room of its own, with wall cabinets, a workbench and overhead racks.
A household of three or more brings a steady run of birthdays and gatherings, and with them wrapping paper, ribbon, cards and party supplies. A closet with a hanging rail for paper rolls, shallow drawers for ribbon and cards and a shelf above for party goods gives gift wrapping a station of its own.
How your Fairfield visit works
Fairfield is part of our Central Valley service area, served by Closet World Northern California in Hayward. A designer comes out for a free design visit, measures, plans the layout with you and leaves a complete in-home estimate, with installation in as little as 9 days. Systems are built in our own factory and installed by our own crews, never subcontractors, and most closets and garages are finished in one day. Every system includes a 7+ year warranty. Request a design visit.