A reach-in closet system in New Jersey runs about $1,500 to $3,500 installed in 2026. A walk-in lands between $3,500 and $8,000, and a built-in primary closet with drawers, glass fronts and lighting can run to $12,000. Most closets are installed in a day; a big walk-in takes two.
We're carpenters, not a catalog. Your closet gets measured in your house, cut for your walls, and screwed into studs — which is why our shelves don't sag in year three and our hanging rods don't pull out of the drywall.
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A reach-in closet system in New Jersey runs about $1,500 to $3,500 installed in 2026. Typical price: $1.5K – $12K. Licensed & insured, written itemized price before work starts, no deposit, one dedicated crew. Serving all 21 New Jersey counties from Paramus. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free estimate.
Wall-hung systems hang from a single rail near the top and float above the floor. They're faster, cheaper, and easy to vacuum under. They also put every pound of your winter coats onto one horizontal rail, which is fine in a house with real studs and a problem in an older home with plaster over lath and studs that aren't where they should be.
Floor-based systems stand on the floor with a toe kick, like cabinetry. They carry weight through the floor instead of the wall, they look built-in, and they take drawers and doors properly. They cost more. In pre-war Bergen and Essex houses, where we're often working against plaster, uneven floors and walls that are an inch out over eight feet, floor-based is usually the honest answer.
We tell you which one your room needs at the estimate, and why. Sometimes it's a mix — floor-based towers with hanging sections between them.
A pantry lives or dies on pull-outs. Deep fixed shelves turn into an archaeology dig. We build roll-out trays, a door rack for cans and spices, and one tall zone for the sheet pans and the stand mixer. If the pantry is a repurposed closet, we check for a plumbing stack in the wall before we promise depth.
Mudroom lockers are the highest-value 30 inches in a New Jersey house. Each person gets a cubby, a hook at their own height, a bin at the bottom for boots, and a bench with a shoe shelf under it. Kids' hooks go low — not at adult height where a six-year-old can't reach them and drops the coat on the floor forever.
Laundry rooms want a folding counter over the machines, a rod to hang what comes out, a tall cabinet for detergent, and a place for the broom and the vacuum. We check the dryer vent run while we're in there, because a crushed flex duct behind a machine is a fire risk we're not going to build a cabinet in front of.
We measure the space, count what has to fit, find the studs and check for plumbing or HVAC in the walls. You get a layout and an itemized price on the spot.
Components are cut to your dimensions. Two to four weeks on most jobs, faster on a simple reach-in. No deposit — you pay as work gets done.
Old wire shelving out, anchor holes patched, walls repaired and painted before anything new goes on. The paint behind a closet system matters, because you will never paint it again.
Anchored into studs, leveled, doors and drawers adjusted, lighting connected, site vacuumed. Then an item-by-item walkthrough before you release final payment.
Paramus-based, building closets, pantries and mudrooms across all 21 New Jersey counties. Design visits same-day or next-day when you call before noon.
Text photos of the closet to (201) 676-3099 or email your measurements to info@firstcallcontractingnj.com and we'll bring a layout to the design visit.
typical fixed-price range — your exact number goes in writing after a free visit
How we beat the big chains: Closet franchises send a designer with software, a tablet and a discount that expires tonight. The install labor is buried in a per-foot number you never see broken out. No franchise fees, no commissioned salesmen, no rented subcontractors — that's typically 15–30% under national-brand quotes for the same or better spec. Bring us any written quote and we'll match the scope line by line.
“The whole system pulled out of the wall with a year of coats on it.”
“The designer measured with software from a photo and the units came three inches short on one side.”
“They installed it right over the old paint and the gouges from the wire shelving.”
You found a crew that is actually near you. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus, in Bergen County, and our own licensed techs handle closets & storage in all 21 New Jersey counties — no call center, no subcontractor sent from two states away. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies go to the nearest crew, 24/7.
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Call (201) 676-3099, text us a photo, or book a free in-home estimate — you get a written price before any work starts.
A reach-in system runs about $1,500 to $3,500 installed. A walk-in is roughly $3,500 to $8,000 depending on drawers, doors and finish. A full built-in primary closet with glass fronts, drawer banks and lighting can reach $12,000. Painting and drywall repair before install is a separate written line.
Two to four weeks from design visit to install day while your components are built, then one day on site for most closets and two for a large walk-in. A pantry or mudroom usually runs a day and a half including the paint work.
No, not for shelving and cabinetry. If we add closet lighting or an outlet, that's electrical work under the NJ Uniform Construction Code and it gets a permit and an inspection, which we pull. Framing a new closet into a room can pull a building permit — your township decides, and we handle it.
Yes, and it's most of what we do in Bergen, Essex and Hudson County. Plaster over lath doesn't hold anchors, walls are rarely square, and floors slope. That's why we favor floor-based systems with scribed fillers in pre-war homes — it looks built-in instead of fighting the house.
A primary walk-in and a mudroom drop zone both show well and buyers notice them. A wire shelf in a reach-in doesn't. That said, we'd rather you build it because you'll use it for ten years — the resale is a bonus, not the reason.
Yes. Same crew, same schedule, one price. Doing the paint first and the closet second is the right order and it saves you a second mobilization — that's usually a few hundred dollars right there.
If you're anywhere in New Jersey, yes. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus and handles closets & storage across all 21 counties with our own licensed crew. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies are dispatched to the nearest crew 24/7. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free in-home estimate.
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