Archives: June 2026

Coquitlam doesn’t have one kind of home, so it doesn’t have one kind of closet problem. A new build on Burke Mountain might have a primary suite roomy enough for a boutique-style walk-in, while a condo near the Burquitlam SkyTrain station is fighting for every square inch. An older character home in Maillardville probably came with a single shallow closet that hasn’t changed since the day it was framed. What ties all of these together is that the closet the builder gave you is almost never the closet you actually need. That gap is exactly...

Open the closet in most Pitt Meadows bedrooms and you’ll find the same thing: one rod running the width of the space, a single shelf above it, and everything else piled on the floor or crammed onto that one shelf until it topples. It’s the builder-grade default, and it wastes more than half of the storage you’re actually paying for. The good news is that a reach-in closet — the shallow, door-fronted closet that came with your home — has far more potential than that lonely rod suggests. With the right layout, the same footprint...