Closet Reno

I know I promised that the very next post would be the closet reno, then, well time slipped away and other thoughts grabbed my attention. This reno was really, really simple. Made simple by not having had the amount of money necessary to buy the "optional" windows when we built the house, so there was space to expand the closet. My least favorite term, in house construction, "upgrade". My house is well built, but there were a lot of things that the builder didn't do to best advantage. The kitchen, for one, and the Master Bedroom closet for another.

The closet was laid out in an L shape, with a long wall of double rods, a worthless shelf area and a small section for long hanging. It had a rather poor 33 square feet. The shelf held one and one half pairs of shoes or three-quarters of a sweater per shelf. I tried hand bags, they fell off of either side.

To reconfigure the closet the only thing needed was to move a wall one foot and move the wall from the bedroom side to the adjoining wall, which made it face the hall. This gave us the ability to have three walls of hanging space rather than just one-ish. The other change, not evident from the plan, was to move the light fixture back so that the hanging space below was illuminated. Previously, it was closer to directly over the clothes, thus the clothes on the top rod had to be pushed out of the way in order to see the clothes on the bottom rod. Replacing the door would be nice.

Something antique or at least antique in appearance.

Then there is the door knob. Again, antique in appearance or antique.

At least the function is improved, which is the important piece!

Be sure to head back to Susan's for more metamorphosis Monday!