Custom Closets & Organizers in Riverside, CA

Riverside began in 1870, when John W. North and the Southern California Colony Association bought land and water rights along the Santa Ana River and chose the name that December. In 1873 Eliza Tibbets planted two navel orange trees from Brazil, and the surviving Parent Navel Orange Tree still stands at Magnolia and Arlington Avenues. The city incorporated in 1883, the Gage Canal brought water to the Arlington Heights groves by 1890, and Victoria Avenue was laid out through them in 1892. From Victorian blocks near downtown to the citrus greenbelt and the tracts out toward Mission Grove, each part of Riverside sets its own storage puzzle.

Riverside homes and what they mean for storage

• Heritage Square and Palm Heights: historic districts with homes from the 1880s into the early 1940s, from Victorian Stick and Eastlake houses to Spanish Colonial Revival and Tudor cottages. The earliest went up in an era when bedrooms relied on a freestanding wardrobe, so a fitted reach-in or a built-in wardrobe often adds storage the house never had.
• Wood Streets: a narrow grid of homes built almost entirely before the Second World War, most of them owner-occupied, where bedroom closets are shallow and short. Double hang and drawers sized to the existing opening get far more out of them.
• Arlington Heights greenbelt: the city's lowest-density neighbourhood, with lots of five acres or more among working citrus groves. Barns and sheds take the farm equipment, while the house garage is left for vehicles, tools and household overflow, so wall cabinets and a sturdy bench stop the two from mixing.
• Mission Grove: tracts built mostly since the 1980s, where the northern streets often have three-car garages and large side yards. That third bay is ideal for full-height cabinets and overhead racks, leaving the other two for cars.

Across Riverside, the garage often does three jobs at once: parking, storage and a workshop or exercise corner. Giving each job its own wall, with cabinets on one side, a workbench on another and the floor left clear for the third, keeps any one of them from taking over.

How your Riverside visit works

Riverside is part of our Inland Empire service area, served by Closet World Southern California in Whittier. Your designer heads out for a free design visit, measures, settles the layout with you and leaves a complete in-home estimate, with installation in as little as 9 days. Every system is built in our own City of Industry, CA factory and installed by our own crews, never subcontractors, and most closets and garages are completed in one day. Each installation is backed by a 7+ year warranty. Request a design visit.