Sandi brought with her into our marriage a love for all things 'Elfa.' Elfa is a closet organizing system sold through the Container Store. Every January, they have a 30%-off sale. For us the timing was perfect. We had someone stay with us for a couple weeks in December and we were surprised how displaced our belongings were as we made room for her in our guest room. Certainly, there has got to be a better way to store our stuff.
Notice on the right the 'linen closet' is used to store Sandi's clothes (not that I ever used the linen closet as a linen closet as a bachelor).
It took us a few hours to rip everything out. We decided to permanently remove the doors to give better access. That included the trim. (As an aside, someday I would love to either replace or paint over the dark-stained trim in the house. It's dated.)
Here is Sandi painting over 35+ years of patching
Now comes the fun part: installing the shelves
We did it!
We almost emptied one guest room closet and part of an other into our updated closet.
(For the record, I still get my 1/3 of the space.) We reclaimed the linen closet and were able to convert the guestroom dresser back to it's intended purpose.
We finished this in one day. Phase II was a little more time-consuming. We wanted to visually blend the closet into the rest of the room.
I still have left-over drywall from when I finished the garage.
I used an entire bucket of mud to patch the drywall and blend it to the existing wall. I'm sure a professional would have used 1/2 that amount.
Texturing drywall is an art and a skill. I'm getting better at it with each project but it still is a nerve-racking experience. Painting the textured wall went pretty quickly. And now, for the trim:
To be dramatic, here is the before and after:
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