No 01 The Portfolio

A quiet kind of beautiful.

Tidy is easy. Lovely is harder. The work below is what Ricki delivers when a client wants a space that feels like a private room — every jar in its place, every heel in its cubby, every square inch working the way it should.

PantryCase File 01
ClosetCase File 02
ShoesCase File 03
GarageCase File 04
Ricki's signature spice wall, every jar matched, every label hand-set
Cover Story
The Spice Wall, fully set. Forty-plus jars, one quiet font, no improvising.
Inside this dossier
01The Pantry 02The Closet 03The Shoe Wall 04The Garage
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The Pantry

Four plates · Fully set
A full pantry view showing labeled shelves and grouped categories
Plate No. 01 — The Walk-In

Every category in its lane. Front-facing, beautifully labeled, no second-guessing.

From spice jars to canned tomatoes to the arborio reserved for Sunday risotto. A pantry that finally behaves itself — and stays that way past the first week.

Build Time 3 days
Plate No. 02 — Side Profile

The unglamorous shelves, made presentable.

Canned goods stacked in pairs. Cereal boxes that face forward. The shelf nobody photographs — until Ricki touches it.

Storage Reset Top to floor
A walk-in pantry from the side
Close-up of the custom spice wall
A corridor view down the full length of the pantry
Plate No. 03 — The Spice Wall, Closer

One typeface. One jar size. Forty-plus stories.

Star anise next to saffron next to seven kinds of seasoning blend. A Saturday of work, paying back every weeknight.

Jars Set 40+, matched
Plate No. 04 — Down the Corridor

Top to bottom. Not a square inch wasted.

Door rack to back wall, floor tile to ceiling shelf. The space the family actually uses, finally working as hard as it should.

Coverage Wall to wall
02 —

The Closet

Custom built · Season-ready
A custom walk-in closet built out for a working wardrobe
Plate No. 05 — The Working Wardrobe

Everything hung. Everything visible.

Matched wood hangers, colors grouped light to dark, tops separated from bottoms. The closet you can actually get dressed in — without opening three doors to find one thing.

Hangers Matched set
A closer view of the built-in closet system
A detail of hanging tops, tanks, and layering pieces
Plate No. 06 — The Build

Every section on purpose.

Suitcases up top where they belong. Blazers on one wall, day dresses on another. Folded stacks where folded things go. Nothing improvised.

System Custom sized
Plate No. 07 — The Detail

Tops in order. Whites, neutrals, the fun ones.

Color-run left to right, on a shared height so the eye reads the whole row at once. Small choice. Big daily difference.

Method Color run
03 —

The Shoe Wall

Every pair · On display
A custom shoe wall with individual cubbies and a handbag column
Plate No. 08 — The Full Wall

One cubby per pair. Handbags front-row.

Individual cells so heels don't kiss, don't scuff, don't disappear. A dedicated column for the handbags, upright, visible, respected. This is what a shoe collection is supposed to look like.

Cubbies Custom built
Plate No. 09 — Closer In

Jimmy Choo & friends, all accounted for.

Every pair displayed like a small piece of art. The reds with the reds, the blacks with the blacks, the ones you save for the night out on the shelf you can reach.

Method Cubby, one pair each
Close-up of the shoe cubbies with heels and flats
04 —

The Garage

Space, given back
A fully organized garage with epoxy floors and wall storage systems
Plate No. 10 — Floor Reclaimed

The car can finally come home.

Overhead storage for the bins. Slat wall for the brooms, the ladder, the step-stool. Cabinets for the unglamorous. Epoxy floor because you deserve to walk in and feel it.

Systems Overhead · Wall · Cabinet
Side view of the organized garage showing overhead bins and slat wall
A view showing the open floor and ceiling storage in the garage
Plate No. 11 — Wall Systems

Every tool hung, every bin labeled.

Slat wall for the daily-drivers, ceiling shelf for the seasonal. The red totes for Christmas, the green for spring. You know where everything lives, because it lives somewhere.

Storage Ceiling-mounted
Plate No. 12 — The Open Floor

Room to breathe.

A garage that isn't fighting you. Nothing on the ground that shouldn't be. Just space — the kind you forgot you were paying for.

Result The car fits
From the Client
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Ricki spent three days in my pantry and I have not stopped showing it off. Every jar has a name, every shelf has a logic, and three weeks later it is still — to my astonishment — exactly the way she left it.
Margot S.
Greenwich, Connecticut  ·  The Spice Wall & Pantry Reset  ·  Spring 2026
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A pantry is not a storage problem. It's a decision you only have to make once — if you build it right.

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