Although you love looking at the drool-worthy luxury boutique celebrity custom closets on the Internet, you know the size and crazy-expensive budget of these projects IS NOT in your future.

And although you’ve seen the ‘budget-friendly,’ off-the-rack, home center store modular closet systems, you also know their quality, lack of options and uncompromising sizes will not work for you.

No, you’re looking for that needle in a haystack. You not…

I bet you’ve all heard of FOMO (the Fear of Missing Out). But I’ll give you another ‘acronym’ which is far more paralyzing when you’re thinking about buying something. This ‘acronym’ is FOSU. Don’t know what FOSU stands for? OK – here it is….

It’s the Fear Of Screwing Up

And this FOSU problem is a huge worry when you’re buying something (like a custom closet) for the first time. You haven’t been down the road before. You’re not sure who(m)…

I’ll admit right up front I have no stock in Ikea and (crazy as it may seem) I don’t like they’re Swedish meatballs (although I do LOVE their crispy oatmeal chocolate cookies!).

And I’ll even admit on a few occasions my custom closet design and installation company has lost sales to our Columbus Ohio Ikea mega-store (and I’ll even share an example in this article why Ikea made more sense than buying from my business – bummer).

And while there…