Laundry Room Before and After

I have been so excited about the Laundry room, and I wanted to explain all that we did to it, but I just haven't found time.  So I will go ahead and just post before and afters.

Before

After

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After

Master Closet Redo

Whoops! Long time no post!

Notice the Bay Window on stilts. Eek... We had our handyman since then fix that...

We moved into our new home this past summer, and we have loved it!  We have had such a fun time painting, tearing things down, and putting new things up.  Actually, painting is terrible, but we love the outcome.

One of the first things we did when we moved in was redo our Master Closet.  Here's why... (these pictures were taken before we moved in)

Unpainted shelves and supports

Supporting L brackets with Rod supports, but no rods,

1x6's as shelf supports

A random desk...

...with bare plywood as a top.

Another problem was that someone must have added carpet to the room, but didn't sand down the doors so that they would easily open.  Our solution was to just take off the doors.  We haven't decided if we will ever put them back on.

Next we took out all of the shelves and supports, which was actually a lot harder than anticipated since they drove the biggest nails I have ever seen into the studs.

Then we saw this... :(

We filled holes holes with spackling, sanded, and then painted the walls and the baseboards, and it felt gooooood!  (sorry, I don't have a picture)

After measuring the closet and creating a design we liked, we went to Lowe's and got all of our boards cut by Warren the most patient Lowe's guy I have ever met.

Those are Pine 1x12's if anyone wants to know.

Then came the painting and installing.

Somehow I miscalculated, and I am down one shelf (I don't want that huge open top shelf.  There is supposed to be another in there).  I still haven't put it in.  Painting the shelf was on my January home goals, but it didn't even get done...

Anyway, after installing both sides, we filled them with our stuff!

Margy's Side

Margy's Side

Kyle's Side

Kyle's Side

This was our first big project, so I didn't know things like fill the knots in the wood with wood filler, or use countersink screws to hide your screws, or even put trim on the front to finish it off.  Oh well, we love it!

Some things we still want to do:

Do something with the blank back wall

Put in a new light fixture (it was broken when we moved in)

And put in the top shelves on both sides of the closet.

Maybe this month I will be able to at least paint the shelves, then install them in March!