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Nailing the exact double hang closet rod height is the difference between a high-capacity custom wardrobe and a daily struggle with wrinkled shirts overlapping each other.
If you get the closet rod distance from wall wrong by even an inch, you will spend the next ten years listening to the sound of plastic hangers scraping against your drywall every time you put a shirt away.
Most people grab a tape measure, look at an empty wall, and guess. This usually results in hanging a shirt, closing the door, and watching the door aggressively scrape the shoulder off a jacket.