It’s been fairly a very long time since I’ve carried out a C.O.P. challenge (cleansing, organizing, purging). However in the previous couple of days, my endurance ran out with my closet state of affairs in our bed room. Proper now, Matt and I take advantage of the visitor bed room as our important bed room, and we’ll proceed to do this till we construct our addition. That addition could have a a lot greater bed room with a big walk-in closet, and one other smaller closet.
However for now, we’ve got these two closets flanking the window…
I constructed these closets realizing that we’d be utilizing this bed room briefly as our important bed room, and I simply assumed that Matt would get one closet, and I’d get the opposite one. However Matt doesn’t actually need a whole closet for himself. Actually, he doesn’t want a closet in any respect.
Since Matt has M.S., and was homebound for over a decade, he didn’t want quite a lot of garments and footwear. And even now, he nonetheless doesn’t. Matt wears very snug garments, and he solely has one pair of footwear that he can tolerate being on his toes. So all of his garments can match within the dresser within the bed room.
However for some purpose, once I realized that Matt wouldn’t want a closet, I didn’t take over the opposite closet for my stuff. As a substitute, I used it to retailer issues just like the comforter that we use within the winter, the quilt and enormous ornamental pillows that go on the mattress on this room, and many different issues that don’t actually need to remain on this room.
And since I used to be attempting to power myself to make use of one small-ish closet, this was my shoe state of affairs…
There’s no means all of my footwear would match contained in the closet together with my garments, so I’d line up the remainder of my footwear neatly outdoors the closet. However that neat lineup would solely final just a few days earlier than my footwear would find yourself in a mound like this. And simply think about attempting to step over and thru that mound with the intention to open the closet and select an outfit or put garments away!
So on Monday, I needed to go to Lowe’s to select up some issues for the studio, and I made a decision to take a stroll down the shelf and closet group aisle to see if that they had any small cabinets that I might use beneath the TV within the studio. And whereas I used to be on that aisle, I acquired impressed to go forward and buy what I wanted to prepare that different closet. I didn’t need something costly or elaborate, so I discovered a quite simple closet group resolution that might work inside this closet to create a shoe closet.
So final evening, I made a decision to take a few hours and resolve my shoe storage downside. I began by clearing out every thing from this closet in order that I used to be left with nothing however an empty field..
I began by including these two Closetmaid ShelfTrack steel tracks for adjustable shelving. Since I used to be screwing these onto a stable plywood backing, this course of took about 5 minutes. The tracks are available in varied lengths, and these 84-inch tracks have been good for my closet.
These shelf brackets slip into the notches on the tracks, so the cabinets are totally adjustable to any top wanted.
For the precise cabinets, I made a decision to not use the Closetmaid wire cabinets which might be made to go along with the ShelfTrack system as a result of I don’t actually like wire cabinets, and I figured I might discover one thing cheaper.
I ended up utilizing stair treads! I used to be fairly enthusiastic about discovering this selection. Not solely are they one of many most cost-effective choices (cheaper than 1″ x 12″ x 8-foot lumber, cheaper than pre-primed MDF, and so forth.), however they’re thicker than most traditional lumber. The stair treads are literally one inch thick, whereas normal lumber known as 1-inch, however it’s really three-quarter inch thick. These stair treads even have a pleasant bullnose on the entrance edge which I feel appears very nice.
So I purchased seven stair treads, lower them to size with my miter noticed to suit contained in the closet on the brackets, after which sanded them earlier than placing them within the closet. As a result of I wished to get this challenge completed shortly, I opted to not stain or paint the cabinets. I didn’t clear coat them, both, however I’ll find yourself doing that later. For now I simply wanted to get this carried out shortly in order that I might get my footwear organized and out of the best way. I’m so ridiculously enthusiastic about this shoe closet.
I ended up being one shelf brief, which is why the underside of the closet appears a bit cluttered. I must get yet one more stair tread and make room for yet one more shelf in order that these footwear at present occupied the center a part of the underside of the closet can have their very own shelf.
Within the strategy of organizing, I ended up eliminating six pairs of footwear that I don’t put on anymore. So this was not solely an organizing challenge, but in addition a purging challenge! I’m so excited to have this taken care of now. And when Matt and I are completed utilizing this room as our important bed room, the cabinets are utterly adjustable, so I’ll have the ability to retailer something I wish to on this closet.
That is a kind of organizing tasks that appears insignificant. I imply, it’s only a shoe closet. And but, going from this earlier than to this after could have a huge effect on my life.
Having the ability to stand in entrance of that different closet to place garments away or select an outfit with out having to stumble over footwear goes to be a dramatic enchancment in the best way I take advantage of these closets, and will certainly enhance my temper when I’ve to get able to go someplace. I can’t consider how fast ship straightforward this challenge was, and I can’t consider I put it off so lengthy!!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
