I live in a Philadelphia row home that was build around the 1890's. Closets are pretty much non existent in these homes unless they were added later which was not the case in my home. Not only is storage hard to come by, the rooms can have odd pop outs like the one I have in my bedroom. This wall used to house the fireplace that was unfortunately covered up at some point in the past and converted into the ductwork for heating and air conditioning. After 7 years of having this spot basically wasted space I decided to build a tasteful built in.
I spent a lot of time looking for inspiration for this closet and finally took measurements and went off to the hardware store. I decided on Iron pipe for the hanging racks which wasn't sold in the length I wanted so ended up making some design alterations on the fly and decided I would be building some small shelves up the left side of the wall and would utilize the high ceilings and put in two poles for hanging clothes.
Construction took about a day, and the biggest expense was the iron pipe and adapters. I used a cheap pine for the shelving and stained it with a dark walnut stain to give it a more high end look. Then it was off to ikea to buy nice wood hangers to hang all the clothes.