Remodeling older Florida home. Lucky enough to have new drywall and studs, but I can now see how I would install this on older walls in other closets.
I took the time and drew out my designs on the provided graphing tools. It made all the difference as we did a walk in close, not a straight run. We bought two towers and two closet systems. With only one tower wall left upon completion, we creatively used every linear foot of shelf and had plenty of rod space. If I had to guess, we tripled the capacity of the close with this system.
It took my husband and I about three days to mount and hang everything. Not 3 8 hour days, more like 3 5 hours days. The best thing we did was to have a plan. Once we put in the first tower (shelf unit) we had a system down. A $ stud finder was a big help, too.
While you can do this with basic tools, if you plan on going rouge from the supplied designs, rent or borrow a chop saw. That made very fast work of the shelving cuts. Bars we a little tough to cut with a hack saw, but easy. We took advantage of all the extra hardware to reinforce everything. And, Great Offer Stock and another big box retailer sell extra hardware, accessories and shelving a la carte. YOU MUST GEt ThE VALET BAR! TOO COOL. One of those things that makes you say, "Why didn't I have one of these for years?"
I can say with 100% certainly that we LOVE the results. We paid attention to detail and design and our closet could easily be worth 3-4 times what we spent in resale value. We WILL be adding an additional system to our guest bedroom closet once we move.
Lastly, if you are not comfortable with anything above basic tools i.e. using a level, anchors etc etc, get some help or hire a handyman. We learned a lot but had the time and resources to do so. Good luck and enjoy your new closet! :-)