This entry has been a long time coming. It is actually what
spawned the idea for a blog. We did a closet renovation lasting five months;
from August 2015 to August 2016. In this time we combined the master closet
with the adjacent master bathroom closet. We moved the entrance from the
bedroom to the bathroom to keep it functional as a bathroom closet as well.
There were many, many obstacles but we completed it in the
end and have more space than ever before. Now I will share the steps, thought
processes, and complicated issues for your consideration or entertainment.
There will be many more posts to follow since this was a large project for us.
You can see that we were lacking space, shelving, and storage. We even had a door opening into the closet which really cut down on space. And, yes, that is a picture frame hung without a picture inside.
So step one is to empty out the closet so that we can assess the situation and begin work. If I've ever learned anything about construction, it's that no matter how simple a task is, it is actually harder.
So you'd figure that putting all the stuff from one closet into another would be a good, temporary solution while the renovation is going on. Normally that would be sound thinking unless the guy that built the other closet built our closet. Apparently the construction workers who put the other closet together didn't have stud-finding technology or just didn't care because they hung the support brackets for the closet straight on to dry wall, not the studs. You see the result.
Excellent, now there was a mess in the spare bedroom. We just lost ANOTHER closet. This renovation is costing us THREE closets now. It was solved by turning the spare bedroom into another closet with clothes laying everywhere. Luckily I had still kept the wardrobe boxes from previous moves. After pulling them out of the attic, that gave us some more room but now we had all of the winter clothes boxed up but whatever it is August, right?
Before the first demolition even took place there was a disaster but the master closet is now empty and the first shelves have been removed. Now it is time to begin.
