Our closets are such important parts of our homes. However, it’s easy to forget just how important they are until something goes wrong. Fortunately, if you need to replace damaged closet shelving in the Toronto area, Keystone Home Products has just what you need.

Damaged Closet Shelving

In old homes, especially, old shelves can sometimes break. This is common with thinner shelves that have had something big and heavy stored on them. Maybe you had a lot of heavy ingredients stored on a pantry shelf. Or, perhaps you put a heavy box full of old school papers onto the shelf in a bedroom closet. Regardless, you’re down a shelf, and we have plenty.

Additionally, shelves can be damaged from liquids spilling. This is especially common kitchen pantries. If a bottle of oil spills and isn’t noticed for many hours, your shelf can be completely destroyed after soaking up the oil. Hall closets are equally susceptible to things like spare shampoo or acetone nail polish remover. When accidents happen, you need a reliable home goods store to help you out of a jam. Keystone Home Products is exactly that for the people of Toronto.

Replace Damaged Closet Shelving

When you need to replace damaged closet shelving, Keystone provides you with options. 

We have wooden shelves that are typically part of closet organizers. However, these can also come in narrower sizes, as all of our wooden organizers are custom built with basic organizer parts. Therefore, if you need to replace some wooden shelves in a closet, we can provide you with the shelving to do so. Either buy individual, custom shelves to mount on existing side bars, or simply place a narrow organizer shelf into the closet.

Additionally, we have a lot of wire shelving. Wire shelving is a favorite, as it minimizes pest access, is spill-proof, and may bend under great pressure, but won’t break like wood. Wire shelving can also be bought in pieces or placed into a closet as a system.

Closet Organizers for Walk-Ins

If you’re struggling with shelving and organization in a walk-in closet, the solution is almost always a wooden closet organizer. These systems are completely customizable and will change your life. 

They come with ample shelving for boxes, bins, shoes, books, and whatever else you want to store on them. However, you can also opt for many hanger bars for storing clothes. Give yourself the room you need to hang clothes without wrestling just to hang a shirt back up. And, that’s not all. Our wooden closet organizers can also come with drawer space. This is essential for storing small accessories, or even other knick-knacks. 

No matter what your shelving needs, Keystone Home Products can help you replace damaged closet shelving with ease. We assure you, you’ll leave Keystone with confidence. Give us a call if you have questions about our products or how you can custom order them.

Some glass shower enclosures are prefabricated and can be bought and installed with standard dimensions. However, many homes have custom shower doors with no glass enclosure. These doors often block off a one-sided opening to an alcove shower and the dimensions may be customized to fit. The problem is, if one of these doors breaks, replacing it means more than a trip to the hardware store. If you need to replace a custom glass shower door in the Toronto area, Keystone Home Products is here to help.

Replace Broken Custom Glass Shower Door

If your custom glass shower door has broken and you’re looking to replace it, Keystone Home Products is the place to go. However, before worrying about a replacement, be sure to properly clean your bathroom and shower area. Shattered glass is incredibly dangerous and even the tiniest little pieces can cut deeply. Put on some protective shoes, sweep up the big pieces into a dustpan, then sweep the bathroom multiple times after. If you have a vacuum with a hose, use this to check corners and go over the floor once you’ve swept.

Once your bathroom is safe to traverse barefoot again, you can begin worrying about future showers and your need for a door. Give us a call if you need to replace a broken custom-sized shower door. We cut mirror and glass for our customers all the time in order to fit the dimensions of their homes. Let us know the dimensions your door should be and we can get you a new door to replace the one that broke.

Replace Outdated Custom Glass Shower Door

Broken doors aren’t the only ones that need to be replaced. Custom glass shower doors have been around for a long time. If you’ve got one that’s old and ugly, we’re here to help. Many old shower doors have unattractive patterns in them to prevent clear views into the shower. These textures have fallen out of style and no longer match modern interiors.

Not to mention, many old shower doors have metal frames. These are generally not in style anymore. With modern glass-cutting technology, it’s easy to mount a frameless glass door with strong, steel hinges – no frame needed. Replace your old, outdated custom glass shower door with one from this century.

Replace Enclosure with Custom Glass Shower Door

Another situation that calls for custom glass shower door shopping is when going from an enclosure to just a door. This is often the case during renovations or if you need a bigger shower door. Many people replace old, narrow shower doors with wider ones. Not only are these easier to step through, they’re also more accessible for people with mobility difficulties, with or without mobility aids.

If you’re looking to get rid of an old enclosure and invest in a wider, custom shower door, we can help you. Give us a call and let us know what you need and we’ll let you know what we can do.

We recently wrote a bit about the best uses for wire shelving at home. However, we know that a lot of the things considered home goods are also used in professional spaces. That’s why Keystone Home Products is here again to cover the best professional uses for wire shelving as well. Don’t worry, we didn’t forget those of you trying to improve your shop or work environment!

1. Folded Apparel Shelving

If you run a clothing shop, one of the best ways you can improve the shop is by storing folded apparel on wire shelving. Everyone has to go into a clothing shop now and again. If that shop includes folded apparel, getting it from a wooden shelf that hasn’t been cleaned in ages is really unsavory. More surface area means more germs, more dust, more dirt, and less appeal.

However, when you store folded apparel on wire shelving, you allow that clothing to breathe and remain fresh longer. The clothing is less likely to take on the smell of the shop. It’s also less likely to get dusty. The last thing you want is to trigger a customer’s allergies when they pull a dusty shirt on in the changing room.

2. Office Supply Shelving

If you work in an office, you know there’s no shortage of storage needs. Offices come with a lot of supplies. From paper to pens, ink cartridges and sticky notes, there’s a lot that needs somewhere to go. Putting up some wire shelving in a copy room or along a back wall gives you somewhere to store these things where they’re easily accessible. Employees can easily find what they need and knowing when something is running low is as easy as a glance.

3. Supply Closet Shelving

No matter what kind of business you work for or run, you almost certainly have a supply closet. If your supply closet is in need of a boost, if you’re moving your business to a new space, or if you’re renovating an old coat closet, you need wire shelving. One of the best professional uses for wire shelving is mounting it across an empty closet space. Then, your empty old coat closet can be used for storing all kinds of things. 

Dental and medical offices can use supply closet wire shelving for storing backstock of packaged supplies. Or, if you’re in a medical environment where patients stay for surgery or overnight observation, you can also use it for storing blankets, pillows, and gowns in more sanitary conditions.

4. Cubicle Shelving

Finally, the last of our favorite professional uses for wire shelving: cubicle shelving. Cubicles have a marked lack of storage space in them aside from the surface of your desk. If you need somewhere to store notebooks, binders, stationery, or boxes of small supplies, wire shelving is here for you. Wire shelving is lightweight, making it great for mounting on a cubicle wall. If your cubicle wall isn’t made for screws, you can also buy or create a wire rig that hooks over the top edge of the cubicle. This is especially stable and lacks the risk of screws coming loose.

Take your cubicle to the next level and reduce crowding your desk space with wire shelving from Keystone Home Products.

There are a lot of uses for wire shelving at home, but some of these uses are more practical than others. Keystone Home Products offers wire shelving to all of our lovely customers in Toronto and the GTA. We want you to make the most of them. Therefore, we’ve put together a short list of the best ways you can utilize these shelves at home. Let’s start with-

1. Kitchen Overflow Shelving

One of the top uses for wire shelving at home is in the kitchen as overflow shelving. Are you struggling to fit everything into your cupboards? Wire shelving is the solution.

You can use these shelves to store snacks, cereals, boxed goods, and more. The best part about the shelves being made of wire is that they’re pest resistant. Pests have a harder time traversing wire than solid surfaces and are less likely to get into your things or try making a home in them.

For that reason, and due to the shortage of space, wire shelving is especially useful in apartment kitchens. Without a full pantry, apartment kitchens often leave you with cramped cupboards. Storing some of your things on wire overflow shelving is a great way to give yourself more wiggle room when unloading groceries.

2. Garage Shoe Shelving

There are as many ways to store shoes as there are people to wear them. Everyone does it differently. However, one of the best uses for wire shelving at home is for just this. 

Setting up some wire shelves in the garage, beside the door to the house, is the perfect way to store shoes. The shelves offer a clear view of their contents because they’re not solid, like wood. Plus, because of those gaps between the wire bars, any dirt on your shoes will simply fall through instead of gathering on the shelf. That means a neater appearance in the long-run.

3. Supplementary Closet Shelving

Closets are made for storing things, but isn’t it curious how they so frequently lack the necessary storage fixtures? If your closet has plenty of extra space and you’re struggling to make use of it, put in some wire shelving. These shelves can be used for storing dress shoes, boxes of seasonal clothes, decorative baskets of accessories like scarves, and more.

Plus, if you have no built-in shelf above your clothing bar, you can use wire shelving there instead. The space above your clothing bars is extremely useful and would be terrible to let go to waste. A long stretch of wire shelving would be just the thing to salvage it. Use this shelving to store boxes of knickknacks, accessories, notebooks you need semi-regularly, hats, and more.

4. Patio Plant Shelving

Finally, one of our favorite uses for wire shelving at home is as patio plant shelving. So many of us love keeping plants. They add a bit of life to our homes and give us something to do in our free time. If you enjoy keeping plants on your patio, wire shelving is the ideal display solution for them.

Wire bars allow loose soil to fall through instead of gathering on a surface. This open design also means watering them is no stress, as you won’t have to worry about warped wood or pooling. Plus, because plants will drain excess water, you can even set up your shelf so that you only need to water the plants on top. They’ll then drip unneeded water to the plants below, creating a wonderful trickle-down system that’s both practical and relaxing.

Keeping your kitchen cupboards organized is the first step to enjoying using your kitchen. However, it’s not an easy step for everyone. Organization is a skill that takes practice. Furthermore, kitchen cupboards involve fitting many differently-shaped items, all with different uses and levels of importance. It’s not as straightforward as packing things into a box for later; the contents of your cupboards need to remain accessible by priority. So, here are some tricks for organizing your kitchen cupboards.

Keeping Useful Backstock Only

The first step in organizing your kitchen cupboards is to only keep backstock that’s useful. What is backstock? It’s all of that food you keep around because you’ll use it one day, but not all today. Canned veggies and bags of rice are great backstock for when you want to make soup one rainy day.

However, a huge chunk of people’s cupboard space is often overtaken by backstock food items. If you can never seem to make room for new groceries, and you can’t really figure out why, there’s a good chance it’s that you simply have too much backstock.

To cut down on how much space is taken up by backstock, start by checking expiration dates. You’ll be surprised how many things have been sitting untouched for 5 years.Yes – even when you swear you didn’t buy them that long ago.

After removing expired foods, if you still have quite a few boxes of instant food or canned items, pull some of it out for use this week. Make 3 recipe piles on your counter and pile some backstock food into them. This week, you can surely use some of it up by making soup, chili, a rice dish, or some other food that uses lots of preserved food.

Separating Spices

One of the biggest mistakes people make with their cupboard space is keeping their spices with everything else. Separate your spices. No matter how you cut it, spices do not stack well. Trying to find what you’re looking for will lead to knocking over stacks and making an organizational disaster.

Instead, opt for a wire spice rack that can be mounted on the pantry well. Another option is a countertop spice rack – maybe one that swivels. But, perhaps our favorite method of storage: use a drawer. A shallow drawer that isn’t big enough for much else is great for storing spices. Lay them down so their labels face up and line them up in your drawer. Finding spices will become easy as pie and they won’t fall all over while you look.

Storing Appliances Outside the Pantry

Another mistake that’s commonly made is storing appliances in the pantry. Organizing your kitchen cupboards becomes way easier when you don’t have to navigate around a crockpot. If you have a tall pantry as well as cabinets, store appliances in lower cabinets or on a wire rack instead of in the pantry. The pantry is easier to access than lower cupboards, so it should be used for food, which you need more often.

Managing your closet space can be really tricky, especially if you don’t have a lot of it. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution to managing closet space no matter how big your closet is. The trick is deciding whether your closet should be in your closet, or somewhere else. Let us explain.

Space Is Space Is Space

Many people struggle with managing closet space because they have more clothing than can fit inside of their small closet. Getting rid of clothing you don’t wear is a great idea, but it only works for people who don’t wear a notable amount of their clothing. If you have the kind of job that requires work-specific clothing, or if you keep clothes specific for workouts, you may have a lot of clothing that you wear regularly. Work clothes, everyday clothes, formal wear, gym clothes, and seasonal clothes can be a tight fit together. This is especially true if your closet isn’t even a walk-in. Fitting all of this into a shallow closet with sliding doors is a real struggle.

So, instead of trying to prune down your clothing until it fits easily into a closet that’s too small, perhaps we should expand. Creating a closet space somewhere other than the closet is an easy solution that works for many. You don’t even have to have a mansion to achieve this. If you have a spare room, or even just some unused space in your bedroom, you can expand your closet outside of its current boundaries. That is, if it’s even necessary.

Using a Closet Organizer

If you have a walk-in closet that you’re struggling to manage space in, you might just need some help. A wooden closet organizer from Keystone Home Products  may be just the thing. Our closet organizers have brought life and organization back to countless walk-ins. Our organizers have shelf space, drawer space, and hanger bars as well. That makes them ideal for a variety of clothing and accessories.

If you don’t have the kind of closet that can accommodate a wooden organizer, you can install the organizer somewhere else. Anywhere that could accommodate a large bookshelf could take on a closet organizer. Really, when it comes down to it, it’s not much different from a fancy bookshelf. It just comes with a few extra storage options made for clothing.

If you don’t have free space anywhere, you can switch out something else with the contents of your closet. Put up some affordable wall-mount bookshelves and store books in your sliding-door closet. Put your organizer where the bookshelves were before. Space is space is space. A closet doesn’t have to have clothing in it.

Organization Accessories

While a closet organizer offers a great place to store many items, organization accessories never hurt. Consider a set of coat hooks for near the front door so that jackets don’t need to be stored with the contents of your closet. Maybe you could benefit from a door-hanging shoe carrier. Small shoes like sandals and heels store in these with ease. Plus, when you store these awkward shoes in a door hanger, you don’t have to worry about keeping them in place on a shelf or regular shoe rack.

So your vanity mirror has cracked. Now you’re probably desperately searching online for a solution. The good news is, it’s actually not too hard to repair a cracked mirror! Mirrors are one of our most popular products here at Keystone Home Products. Therefore, we know a thing or two about them and want to share that knowledge with you. 

Repair a Cracked Mirror with a Kit

The most common and easiest way to repair a mirror is with a mirror repair kit. These can be bought online or from most hardware stores. You may also find them at auto stores, since this is the same method used to repair windshields and other types of glass.

A mirror repair kit will come with a syringe, a small tube of epoxy, and a stability film. While each kit will come with its own unique instructions, they usually go something like this:

1. Wash your mirror to remove any dust particles or skin oils.
2. Put down your stability film to cover the crack. This should be put on carefully and smoothed as it’s placed to prevent any air from getting trapped.
3. Next, use your syringe to extract epoxy from the small tube included in the kit.
4. Stick the needle of the syringe very carefully through the film and into the crack.
5. Slowly push the plunger on the syringe down to inject the crack with epoxy. Don’t do this too fast or it may cause bubbling of the film. Give the epoxy enough time to spread so the pressure doesn’t end up on the film.
6. When the crack is filled with epoxy, you’ll need to leave it for 10-20 minutes to set.
7. After the epoxy is set, you can remove the stability film.
8. Then, put a drop of the epoxy cure on the crack and cover it with the curing film.
9. After the epoxy has cured, you can scrape any residue off with the flat edge of a razor blade and wash your mirror off.

Use Epoxy Without a Kit

While a kit makes this easiest, if you have some epoxy lying around and don’t feel like hunting down a kit, you can follow these steps with your own epoxy, syringe, and adhesive film. We recommend getting a kit for most people, since the average person doesn’t have a syringe or adhesive on hand.

Replace Cracked Mirrors

Trying to repair a vanity mirror with a mirror repair kit is honestly only worth it if you’re on quite a tight budget. We can’t wholly recommend it to anyone with some pocket change. Instead, it’s much easier, much faster, and has much better results to just replace your cracked mirror.

If you need to replace a cracked vanity mirror, you can get a new vanity mirror of any size from Keystone Home Products in Toronto. For help installing a new mirror, check out our guide here.

Whether you’ve just got poor quality glass or you bought a home with intentionally fogged or frosted glass shower enclosures, we believe you can do better. Foggy shower enclosures might offer some privacy, but how much privacy do you really need when you have a bathroom door you can lock? Let’s take a look at some of the reasons to replace foggy shower enclosures with clear glass.

Replace Old Shower Enclosures

Sometimes, when your shower enclosure is really old, the glass starts to get foggy. This can happen for a number of reasons. If you clean the enclosure with a brush and chemical cleaner, it can be abrasive enough to scratch cheap glass. Years of little hairline scratches can leave glass looking less than crisp. 

Additionally, if you have hard water, you can get a buildup on your shower enclosure. If your water has something like calcium in it, this buildup will be white and leave your glass looking slightly opaque. While this kind of buildup can usually be removed with special cleaner, those cleaners can be abrasive as well and may have a hard time getting into corners.

If you think it’s time to ditch the old shower enclosure that’s been in your house for the last 20 years, you’re in the right place. Keystone Home Products considers glass shower enclosures one of our specialties.

Replace Frosted Glass Shower Enclosures

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, frosted glass shower enclosures were a big thing. Nowadays, high quality, clear glass is preferable. This is for a number of reasons.

• Clearer glass allows more light flow.
• Completely transparent glass allows you to see into the shower which makes the bathroom look and feel bigger.
• Frosted glass is often frosted because the opaque nature of it hides imperfections that make the glass weak. That means it’s more likely to break.

If you want beautiful, crystal clear glass that will last longer, look better, and feel nicer to shower in, replace foggy shower enclosures with clear glass shower enclosures from Keystone Home Products.

High Quality Glass Shower Enclosures

When buying a shower enclosure, you don’t want to buy from a disreputable store, but you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg either. Big name home products stores will charge way more than their products are worth, just so you can say you bought it from them. If you want quality at a reasonable price, rely on Keystone Home Products. We’ve been serving Toronto homeowners for years and haven’t left them disappointed.

If you need more information about what kind of shower enclosures we have available, give us a call. Or, visit our store in person and take a look at what we have in stock. You can also custom order shower enclosures from us if you need something with unusual dimensions.

Clothing stores have a lot of unique needs when it comes to storage and hardware. For one thing, they need storage that people won’t see, but also additional storage that displays products visibly. One of the most invaluable solutions is wire shelving for clothing stores. Let’s take a look at why.

Lets Fabric Breathe

One of the #1 reasons to opt for wire shelving is that it’s so breathable. A lot of boutiques and clothing stores go for wooden shelving because it’s sturdier and looks high quality. However, the way it treats clothing doesn’t make those perks worthwhile.

Wooden shelving allows little breathability. The clothes on the bottom of a stack will absorb that wood smell, pick up dust from the shelf surface, and can even grow mildew if in a humid shop or environment.

Wire shelving, on the other hand, allows lots of air flow. Moisture and smells won’t get trapped in your clothing fabrics. Plus, wire shelving has minimal surface area for collecting dust, which means your clothes won’t pick it all up when stacked atop it.

Prevents Pests

Clothing stores don’t always change stock frequently, which means a stack of shirts may remain in the same place for many months. New shirts may be added to the stack, but they may not be fully removed for a while.

Solid surfaces, like those of wooden shelving, offer a great place for pests to hide or make their home. If you have a row of clothing stacks with a solid surface up against the wall behind it, you’re making pest real estate. Bugs that eat fabric, mice looking for a warm place to build a nest, and more can make home behind your clothing. This may be easy to notice on lower shelves, but higher up, you can’t see what’s going on without deliberately checking.

Constantly checking for signs of pests (which are pretty good at not being seen) takes more time than a clothing store owner wants to spend on such a task. A better, easier, and quicker solution is to opt for wire shelving. Without a solid surface to hide them from view, from light, and from falling through, most pests will steer clear.

Allows Stacking and Hanging

Wire shelving isn’t just better for the longevity of your clothing products, it’s also better for display practicality. Wire shelving can accommodate stacks of clothes as well as hangers. This presents 3 great options for displays:

1. You can display more clothing variety by stacking shirts above hung shirts of a different type.
2. Stacked clothes can provide quick stock for the hangers below. This makes it easy for customers to see the shirt without unfolding it. If they take the product on the hanger, staff can quickly put a new one in its place.
3. Outfits can be paired vertically. Shirts that go well with a set of jeans can be hung below that stack of jeans. This is great when you have an outfit on display. When someone falls in love with it, they can get the whole thing in one place.

Affordable from Keystone Home Products

If you need wire shelving for clothing stores in Toronto, Keystone Home Products is the place to get it. We offer high quality, affordable wire shelving for clothing stores. Buy storage and display solutions that will last. Contact us if you have any questions and we’ll be happy to help.

If you’re planning to renovate your basement, there are some things you’ll need. While many department stores offer the cushy furnishings you’ll need, or the bathroom towels, Keystone offers something different. We have less thrilling, but incredibly vital, parts, like shelving, mirrors, and closet doors. Here’s a little bit about what we offer in terms of home goods for your basement renovation.

Shelving

Every basement needs some shelving. Well, any room needs some shelving, really. Your basement is no different. And, after you’ve renovated it, it will be completely bare and in need of some vital shelving additions.

Display

First off, you’ll need display shelving. Most basements have some need for display. Whether you need shelves for books, video games, decor, or something else, we’ve got you covered.

Our wooden organizers are great for these purposes. While they’re usually marketed toward closet storage, there’s nothing about them that dictates they’re strictly for closet use. Our wooden organizers are great for visible storage and displays as well.

In fact, they can even be used as entertainment centers. What sets them apart from other entertainment centers is the abundance of storage. Many TV stands offer the very least in terms of storage. For someone with a movie or game collection, a set of gaming consoles, or the desire to border the TV with bookshelves, standard TV stands don’t cut it.

Storage

Display shelving is important, but storage shelving may be even more so. Home goods for your basement renovation must include shelving in places like closets and bedrooms. While the aforementioned wooden organizers are great for closets, we can’t ignore our wire shelving. This shelving is great for smaller closets that don’t have room to accommodate an entire organizer. It allows fabric to breathe, preventing mildew, closet smell, and pests.

Closet Doors

Once the structure is built, you may come to realize your closet is a bit… open concept. That is to say, you’ll need some closet doors. Keystone Home Products has a variety of closet doors. We offer sliding doors as well as bifold doors. Either style can be bought covered with mirrors as well. Mirror closet doors allow comfort while dressing and help to make a space feel bigger. This is vital if your basement bedroom is a small guest room.

Mirrors

While mirrors on the backs of closet doors are one way to offer you or your guests a reflection, we can’t forget the vanity. If you’ve added a bathroom during your basement renovation, a vanity mirror is one of the home goods you can’t do without.

Here at Keystone, you can get a mirror in any size or dimensions. Check out our handy installation guide to see how you can install it yourself.

Shop Keystone Home Products

If you’re shopping for home goods for a basement renovation in Toronto, Keystone is the local home goods store for you. We’re right next door and offer everything you need to turn an empty, finished basement into part of your home. Give us a call if you need help or have questions about our products.