Holy Crap, The Closet’s Done

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For any of you that have been following the ongoing saga of The Closet, you’ll know why this is such a big deal. For the rest of you, imagine this: Your master bedroom walk-in closet, completely unusable as a place to store clothes for over a year. Terrible, right?

I started working on the closet over a year ago – it was one of the first projects I tackled, at the same time as I started working on the master bedroom. The master bedroom was finished rather quickly, but I never got the closet finished. Something always ended up being a higher priority – the yard needed mowed, we needed to get part of the hallway ready so that we could put up our bookshelves and unbox our books, the guest bedroom needed to be finished so I could have office space for exams, the nursery needed to be finished so we could have someplace to put Rayleigh, etc.

I finally bit the bullet and decided to get the closet finished, despite Kelsey’s completely valid point that there were many other projects in more urgent need of my attention – but I’d had it; I had to get the closet done for my own sanity. My dad was a huge help – over multiple visits, he helped me hang drywall, prime, make shims for the closet rack system, etc., and Kelsey went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of the closet mounting gear we needed this week. I’ve got all of our clothes moved in to the closet, and now the few remaining still-packed boxes in the upstairs are confined to the laundry room (which we had been using as a makeshift walk-in closet).

This is what the closet looked like when we toured the house and it was still full of the old owners' stuff - very cluttered and not very usable. We decided to improve on their layout.
This is what the closet looked like when we toured the house and it was still full of the old owners’ stuff – very cluttered and not very usable. We decided to improve on their layout.
This is a photo of my dad working on hanging drywall in the closet. The old plaster walls were cracking and crumbling, so we hung drywall to smooth out the walls. Dad did the bottom 2/3, I did the top 1/3.
This is a photo of my dad working on hanging drywall in the closet. The old plaster walls were cracking and crumbling, so we hung drywall to smooth out the walls. Dad did the bottom 2/3, I did the top 1/3.
The right hand side of the finished closet, with all shelving and clothes bars up, waiting to be filled. The clothes bar on the right will contain tall clothes (dresses, suits, etc).
The right hand side of the finished closet, with all shelving and clothes bars up, waiting to be filled. The clothes bar on the right will contain tall clothes (dresses, suits, etc).
The left side of our closet, ready to be filled with clothes. This side has two clothes bars, spaced so that shorter items (shirts, pants folded over, etc) can fit in two rows.
The left side of our closet, ready to be filled with clothes. This side has two clothes bars, spaced so that shorter items (shirts, pants folded over, etc) can fit in two rows.
This is a view of the right side of the closet. You can see the middle shelves mostly filled with clothes, and the high bar on the right holding our tall hanging clothes (suits, dresses, etc).
This is a view of the right side of the closet. You can see the middle shelves mostly filled with clothes, and the high bar on the right holding our tall hanging clothes (suits, dresses, etc).
This is a view of the two bars and shelf on the left side of the closet full of clothes. The top bins contain things we don't use very often (hats, swimsuits, etc); the top rack of clothes is Kevin's, and the bottom rack is Kelsey's.
This is a view of the two bars and shelf on the left side of the closet full of clothes. The top bins contain things we don’t use very often (hats, swimsuits, etc); the top rack of clothes is Kevin’s, and the bottom rack is Kelsey’s.

The next project is going to be getting a more solid and weather-proof door on the basement entrance, followed by finishing the doors upstairs, followed by Rayleigh’s closet, followed by the upstairs hallway, followed by the guest bedroom closet.

3 responses to “Holy Crap, The Closet’s Done”

  2. Gotta feel good having that one off your back, onward and upward to the next porject! 🙂 Ah, the joys of home ownership.

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