I love the clean, modern look of these shelves (in my opinion). It was so nice to find shelves that had good supportive brackets and legitimate closet rods as well. I'm clearly not a professional interior decorator. I'm not even a true diy person of any sort. However, even I was able to figure these things out for a decent set up in two simple closets (one of which I uploaded a picture for). If you want to hang the closet rod portion on a shelf, you can do so easily. If you decide that you don't want to utilize the closet rod portion on a shelf, you don't have to, and the shelf will still look normal. The closet rods can be installed separately, placed on a wall, without the shelves as well. So, everything is very versatile which is great. I am really happy with my purchases which arrived early and in excellent condition.