The closet planner is a free online tool for designing your closet and wardrobe layout in minutes. Drag and drop hanging rails, shelves and wardrobe units, check dimensions, and share your plan — completely free, no download required.
No steep learning curve. No subscription. Just a fast, accurate closet layout planner that lets you get on with designing.
Place hanging rails, shelves, drawer towers, and wardrobes with a single click. Snap to walls and to other units automatically.
Set your exact room size in feet and inches (or millimetres) and every unit is drawn to scale. See instantly what fits before you buy anything.
Open the closet planner and start designing immediately. Nothing to install, no account to create, no credit card required.
Download your closet plan as an image to share with your carpenter, joiner, or closet company. No reformatting needed.
Single and double-hang rails, shelves, shoe racks, drawer towers, and freestanding wardrobes — including IKEA PAX frame sizes.
Every item can be rotated, resized, and labelled. Test multiple closet layout ideas in minutes without measuring the real room twice.
Enter your closet or room dimensions in feet and inches to create an accurate to-scale floor plan.
Drag hanging rails, shelves, drawers, and wardrobes from the library into your space.
Move, rotate, and resize items until the layout works. Snap to walls for precision.
Download your plan or share a link directly with your carpenter, joiner, or closet company.
Whether you're fitting out a reach-in, designing a walk-in, or lining up a run of IKEA PAX wardrobes, Free Room Planner gives you the tools to plan it properly.
Map out exactly where hanging, shelves and drawers go before the carpenter arrives. Check the walkway down the middle actually clears before you commit to storage on two or three walls.
Behind a reach-in's doors, every inch of the standard 24-inch depth counts. Try single-hang against double-hang, add a shelf stack, and see how much you can fit on one wall before you order parts.
Use it as a free IKEA PAX planner alternative — drop in 50, 75 and 100 cm frames and line them up along your wall to see how a run of wardrobes fits the space before you place the order.
Arrive at your design appointment with a plan already drawn up. Save time, communicate clearly, and get a more accurate quote from the outset by handing over a dimensioned drawing.
All items are sized to standard dimensions. Resize freely to match your exact products.
Draw with the standard dimensions first, confirm the layout works, then match items to specific products — resizing a unit in the planner takes seconds.
Most closet planning problems start with guessed dimensions. The good news is that storage is more predictable than it looks: reach-in closets are almost always 24″ deep, hanging rods sit at a handful of standard heights, and wardrobe systems like IKEA PAX come in a small set of fixed frame sizes. Get the depths and rod heights right on screen and the rest of the layout tends to fall into place — because in a closet, it is the clearances between the runs, not the runs themselves, that decide whether a plan actually works.
24″ deep is the near-universal standard — enough to hang clothes on a front-to-back rod without them brushing the doors.
| Standard depth | 24″ |
| Common widths | 4′–8′ |
| Minimum useful width | 4′ |
| Clear space in front | 24″ |
A walk-in needs enough width for storage on the walls plus a walkway you can actually turn around in.
| Minimum size | ~5′ × 5′ |
| Comfortable size | ~7′ × 10′ |
| Walkway between runs | 24–36″ |
| Storage on | 2–3 walls |
Rod height is measured from the floor. Double-hang two rods where you only need shirts and folded items.
| Single-hang rod | 66″ |
| Double-hang (upper) | 80″ |
| Double-hang (lower) | 40″ |
Shelf depth is the number to get right — too shallow and folded stacks overhang, too deep and things get lost at the back.
| Shelf depth | 12–16″ |
| Shoe shelf depth | 12″ |
| Reach-in depth | 24″ |
PAX frames come in a fixed set of sizes — pick the width and depth, and the run follows. All figures in centimetres.
| Frame widths | 50 / 75 / 100 cm |
| Frame depths | 35 / 58 cm |
| Frame heights | 201 / 236 cm |
Drag any of these items from the library and it lands in your room at exactly the size shown here. Found the specific product you want to buy? Select the item and type in the manufacturer’s dimensions to match it precisely.
Open the storage library in the planner →Almost every storage project is one of three types, and each one plans slightly differently. A reach-in is a shallow cupboard you stand outside; a walk-in is a small room you step into; a freestanding wardrobe is furniture you can move. Work out which you are building first — it sets the depth, the doors, and the clearances you need to leave.
A shallow closet, standard at 24″ deep and typically 4′–8′ wide, accessed through a doorway or a set of sliding or bi-fold doors. The whole thing is effectively one wall of storage, so the trick is stacking it cleverly: double-hang rods for shirts, a single-hang section for coats and dresses, and a shelf run above. Sliding doors save the floor space a hinged door would swallow, but remember they only ever open half the closet at once.
A small room you step into, with storage on two or three walls. It needs about 5′ × 5′ as a bare minimum and feels genuinely comfortable at around 7′ × 10′, once you allow a 24–36″ walkway down the centre. The big advantage is full-height hanging and deep shelving on every wall; the big risk is a walkway that looks fine on paper but disappears the moment drawers are open. Draw it to scale and check the gap.
Standalone furniture — a single wardrobe, an armoire, or a run of IKEA PAX frames bolted together — that needs no building work at all. Perfect for a bedroom with no built-in storage: measure the wall, line up 50, 75 and 100 cm frames until they fit, and leave room for the doors to open (or fit sliding doors if the room is tight). Because nothing is fixed, you can re-plan it as often as you like.
A closet that fits on paper can still fail in person. Storage needs room to use it — space to stand back and see a rail, to pull a drawer fully out, to swing a door open — and it is the gaps between the runs, not the runs themselves, that decide whether a layout works. The most common closet planning mistake is a walkway or a door swing that vanishes once everything is installed. Check these distances on your plan before you commit to anything.
Leave at least 24″ between facing runs of storage inside a walk-in; 36″ lets two people pass and drawers open fully. Below 24″ the closet is usable but never comfortable, and deep drawers may not clear the opposite wall.
Allow around 24″ of clear floor in front of a reach-in so you can stand back, see the whole rail, and lift hangers off cleanly. This is on top of the closet’s own 24″ depth.
A hinged closet door needs its full arc kept clear — often the biggest space consumer in a small room. Bi-fold doors halve the swing, and sliding or pocket doors remove it entirely. Always draw the swing before you place furniture near the opening.
Set a single-hang rod around 66″ from the floor for long items — coats, dresses and full-length garments hang clear without pooling on the base. Leave a shelf above it for the space you would otherwise waste.
Where you only hang shirts and folded trousers, stack two rods at roughly 40″ and 80″ from the floor. Double-hanging effectively doubles the hanging capacity of the same wall — the single biggest space win in most closets.
Because the planner draws everything to scale, you can measure these gaps directly on your plan. If there is 30″ between the two runs on screen, there is 30″ in real life.
Check your clearances in the planner →Planning a different space? Use the planner built for it — same canvas, same free export.