Only you can decide that, based on taking an inventory of all your clothes. Nobody knows how much of what items you have.

Agree with tatts, although to your question re wire baskets - I can't personally stand them. They leave imprints on folded clothing which I find irritating. Not every knit is impervious to wrinkles, LOL.

I prefer adjustable shelves. My DH just stacks his folded clothes; I like using bins.

I prefer adjustable shelves with movable dividers in between stacks of clothes. Wire shelves and wire baskets is bad on the fibers and will ruin folded clothing.

I like bins on my shelving for storing socks and the like. A separate bin for athletic socks, dress socks, lounger puffy socks. A bin for cotton undies and sexy panties. A bin for sports bras, comfy bras, and specialty bras. You get the idea.

Shelves with dividers. Bins on shelves.

Forget baskets. Shelves work best for casual. Decide what needs to be hung and make the rest of the space shelves.

How about making a test area for shelving? I make a mess with shelves and have turned most of the ones into my house into faux drawers by putting things into baskets or boxes that slide out.

I had thought the same regarding the baskets. I just see them in every closet design, so I wasn't sure if there was a use I hadn't thought of!

Pax has so many options I love the system but you need to sit down and make a list of what you want to store and how you store them now. I do not like wire baskets or shelves . But really go through all the options with Pax to make this work. The only place I would use the wire baskets is for socks

A closet is the only place in the home to hang clothes, so make sure that is priority first. Leave some extra space of hang for future. Have a lot of double hang, some long hang, then adjustable shelving for rest. Fold your clothes the way you prefer lay them out side by side measure, that's the measure of shelf width you'll need. You can always buy baskets to put on shelves. Avoid wire baskets.

We like wire baskets for some things (socks & undies). Everything else is better on solid shelves. Our custom closet has adjustable shelves & regular drawers. Hanging is most important. We have lots of double hanging. It was the best money we ever spent.

Baskets or small bins are good for some things, like corraling all your underwear or socks. I load clean ones to the rear and pull from the front.

But for anything else they are a pita because you can't see the stack of clothing and have to take it all out to find the teal shirt you wanted. Plain stacks on shelves with dividers or open-fronted bins are great.

I use the wire baskets and really like them for smaller things like simple knit shirts and turtlenecks. These are the kinds of things that do not stay folded well on a shelf. I roll them and stand them up, mostly. Drawers are labelled for cool colors, warm colors, black/white/grey, etc. This minimizes ferreting around.

It's easy to get around the "wire imprint " problem. Just line the bottoms with rubber shelf paper. The roll I bought does not have adhesive.

I prefer drawers or pull out shelves to fixed shelves, makes it easier to find stuff. Also I’d rather shallow-ish drawers over tall shelves - I put folded items in the drawer on end like a filing cabinet, so I don’t have to move half the stack to get the item I want.

I’m also not fond of wire baskets - I use them mainly when I want more airflow, like a drawer of less frequently used items so they don’t get a stored-too-long stale smell. Or while I have large hampers for everyday, I do have a wire basket for dry cleaning/hand wash items. The wire means things can air out properly after being worn (even if stuff doesn’t feel damp to the touch it has moisture from your body) while things wait to be laundered. Since it can take a bit for enough stuff to collect to be worth a dry cleaning trip, I want stuff to be able to dry out well in the basket waiting.

That is a great point regarding the dry cleaning. I do the same, but with clothes that are "not dirty/not clean". Maybe 1-2 wire baskets at the bottom would be helpful.

Had wire shelves & baskets; did NOT like the grid imprint they left on clothing, would never again get them.

For the wire shelves I just laid a sheet of cardboard on them. No more wire imprint, plus folded clothes slid out better. Mine came with the house, more trouble than it was worth to replace them.

I actually love the Ikea wire baskets. we've used them for over twelve years. tee shirts, socks, underwear, shorts, etc. if you use the pullout baskets for high turnover items, you'll never see impressions, at least I haven't.
we fold tee shirts into 1/8 s, and stand them up. organize baskets for casual and work clothes. roll underwear and socks. a lot fits.
we also have the real interior drawers for finer items. double hanging rods in other areas.
the great thing about Ikea pax is that you can rearrange and change it up. the bad news is, it's not cheap to change, but it can be done.

my advice would be to us the almost 40 inch cabinets where you can. especially for hanging space.
in dead space on one side of the closet, I added kalax shelves. floor to ceiling for out of season storage, and one vertical row of everyday wear, neatly stacked .
good luck. I live the pax systems.

The Algot is pretty nice too, if you have concealed space for it, since it isn’t super attractive. We put a bunch of it in our basement and are going to redo our linen closet with it soon because it’s much cheaper than the similar options at other stores, and feels very solid once it’s installed properly.

Our not clean/not dirty usually just ends on top of the dirty dry cleaning when it’s between wearings - we could use an extra basket for it but no space. (Mostly stuff like lounge wear that my SO changes into when he gets home from work - sweatpants and so on, so it doesn’t get wrinkled or wire imprints or if it does no one cares. Nicer stuff that will be worn again like suit jackets get hung up properly outside of the closet overnight - we just hang the hanger on a hook - so it can really dry out well and get some air.)

Yeah, when did everything have to be in a closet? Dressers are still the best way to handle most folded clothes...

We like having dressers, but will need to choose between a dresser or this wardrobe system in order to fit a king bed in our room. A dresser just doesn’t hold enough.

You can totally put drawers in the wardrobe system to act like a dresser, though. I’d do that and only have fixed shelves where it’s too high for a drawer to be sensible. I hate bending down to look on low shelves, though.

We have decent closet space and we still have a dresser - the dresser is for super casual stuff and exercise clothes and pajamas, and the closet is for normal and nice clothes (most of which are hung up) and stuff that goes with them, like special undergarments and pantyhose and so on. Also some specialty gear like long underwear, that kind of thing. (There’s built in drawers in the closet, but they’re not large, so it’s just enough space for what we keep there.) We could probably get everything in the closet, but we found this arrangement works best for us.

Erin m, we have no dressers. just the slide out baskets and drawers in the pax system. I don't miss dressers and chests.

Check out under-the-bed storage for your shoes -- keep shoe smells away from your clothes. Alternately, consider a vertical drawer -- preferably with level shelves -- for most of your shoes and purses and other accessories.

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/77/cb/28/77cb287ba48b1523307c9d87cf7acda1--shoe-shelves-shoe-storage.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fc/e4/c4/fce4c4e15fc74bb77dcd43eeba786464--wardrobe-design-shoe-cabinet.jpg

If you don't have a lot of shoes and/or boots, something like this could be useful.

https://www.interdesignusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1000_Square_JPG-04481-Environment-870x870.jpeg

If you have a pair of sweaty running shoes that you don't want near your bed, you could put a shoe holder on the back of your bathroom door.

If closet space is limited, you may want to invest in or build storage space for your clothes and/or shoes.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cf/9a/55/cf9a55ce3042e5f438cfb7273c68b367--shoe-storage-cabinet-entryway-shoe-storage.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjYyWDEwMDc=/$T2eC16Z,!wsE9suwyRubBRQpC99!2Q~~48_20.JPG

If you don't have a chest of drawers or high boy for all your folded clothes, choose shelves but don't waste money on baskets -- they shrink the room you have -- except, possibly, for a really high top shelf and/or a bottom shelf where seeing what you're reaching for and/or pulling out one item could become a chore.

If you are interested in a DIY project: There are a lot of older (analog) tv cabinets in used furniture stores, thrift stores, Habitat for Humanity Restore Stores and some of them are quality pieces of furniture with doors that, by replacing the plywood on the back (where holes for wiring are usually located) and adding a couple of shelves could be made into an excellent cabinet for storing folded clothes.

Good luck w/your project.