More Closet Continuation

Wow! The closet has made progress.

You saw Lando & D working to close in the HUGE window in what was once Maddie's room.

You saw the room begin to get framed in.

You saw the door get punched through,

Since that time, D put up all the the drywall, hung the door, textured, and painted,
He rewired the electricity, moved the light switch and added a new overhead light (a little bit of a retro feel :)

We finally decided that we could get what we wanted for a price we could live with at Ikea. We are not huge fans of Ikea over all, but their "Pax" closet system fit the bill well enough for what we were doing. We were quite happy with our choices & design.

The night the cabinets finally arrived, Jade & Sara came over and Jade worked with his dad for 4 hours, sweating and being manly... They put together all the big "boxes" (frames) for the closet. They put them together in out bedroom, then slid them out into the main room and the hall, then had to bring them all back in, one x one and bring them into the tiny closet and stand them up and put them in where our design placed them.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T GET ANY PICTURES!!!

But here is a photos of their handy work, the next morning:

The next morning, Deevs got home from spending the night at his friend's house and jumped in to work (trying to earn money to put toward a "fixie" bike) to assemble and install drawers and shelving and hanging rods, and baskets.

More Home Updates

I took a gamble on Etsy and got a pair of vintage pinch pleat drapes originally from Sears & Roebucks. Do you remember these from your Grandma's house?

We went and bought the traverse rod and put the hooks into the pleats and hung them up.

I thought it would be complex and difficult, but it was actually VERY self-explanatory.

I am pretty happy with how they look.

I think they will look even better with the new paint color - when we finally choose it!

Here is a little vintage kitsch - the napkin holder.

AWESOME!

(You can also see some paint possibilities taped to the wall behind... not sure what we are doing... we shall see.)

The closet is continuing to shape up day by day.

We picked a light and D installed it.

SO EXCITED!

I told D "it is all turning out better than I could've imagined it!

I can't believe it is actually happening!

PS

Dining booth is ordered.

Won't be here for 5 weeks.

Now that I have decided, I am IMPATIENT!

Sooooooooooooo excited!

Closet Continuation

As D progresses on the closet renovation, I simply MUST gush a little!

His expertise and work ethic have made this probably the cheapest renovation on the face of the planet. It has taken VERY little in the way of supplies to create this room... it has take WAY more time and knowledge and sweat equity. He has saved us a fortune (like he does on SO many things like car maintenance and repair etc.).

It is moving along at QUITE a steady pace, especially considering he is also running his own business and going out on appliance repair calls!

New door cut into wall between our bedroom & new closet.

View of framed in new wall with drywall still to be hung.

View from other angel - looking in at what USED to be a huge, floor to ceiling window that has now been framed in and covered with drywall.

View from our room of what USED to be our closet - with all the shelving & hanging rod removed - into the new closet.

New Closet in Process

Our Master Closet is finally beginning. I know it will be a long process since D is doing it while trying to run a business and do appliance repair calls, but it has BEGUN! Today Lando & Dad took out the big, old window and framed it in and are putting on the ___________ (I have no idea what it's called, but it is like chicken wire over black paper or something).

Sad to lose a big window (even though it was ancient and needed to be replaced) and all the sunlight that went with it, but we do not need a whole wall of our closet to be a huge window... we need shelves and drawers and hanging space.

outside views

from inside

macro view from inside

Great start, men!!!

Still a lot more to do:

* Dry wall over old window area

*Wire for electrical so both the new closet and new storage areas have lights & switches

* Divide the room in half with a new wall which will separate the new closet from the new walk in pantry/storage/laundry kind of area.

* Bust an opening (doorway) through our master bedroom wall into closet (frame it in?)

* Fix the gap in the flooring where there was previously wall.

* Design what closet space will look like

* Put in all the shelving, drawers and hanging bars for which we designed the scheme

And that is just the closet (and only what I know about it... I am probably over-simplifying it!)... then onto the storage/pantry area.

EXCITING!