Ultimately, she found a job at California Closets in Hawthorne.

California Closets sends a consultant to your home, and will build a new storage system.

But we're coming out of the California Closet.

It looked to us like off-the-shelf software and was packed in a box marked California Closets, 1996.

In 2005, California Closets had a revenue of $241 million, a 16 percent increase from the prior year.

California Closets moved from its two-story brick building to a temporary site several doors away.

California Closets returned in January to its 55,000-square-foot building, which has a showroom, a warehouse and an office.

California Closets (www.calclosets.com) was among the first companies to offer sleek storage for those doing without an architect, and it showed in the presentation.

California Closets uses its own crew, which provides the most streamlined solution.

A 6-foot-long closet installed and designed by California Closet for $525 to $625 would cost $180 more in cedar.