Closet Redesign: The Plan
| December 20, 2011 | Posted by Jessie under Closet, Inspiration |
You may remember me sharing some closet inspiration way back in October. Well, we’re finally getting around to starting the closet redesign and I couldn’t be more excited. Our closet is embarrassingly disorganized, cluttered, and just plain unattractive. We currently have cheap, white wire shelving, baskets of shoes, and a very old, barely functioning dresser shoved in the corner. Now that I have you all grossed out by our dressing situation, here’s the plan for the redesign {with plenty of eye candy inspiration to go along with it-click on pictures for source}.
One of the biggest projects we will be doing is adding new shelving. We drew out what we wanted and are building the shelves out of white painted wood. Imagine open shelving similar to these:
We’re going for an industrial look with our hanging area and will be doing a double hang on either side similar to this, with storage in between the his and hers sides:
We’re also DIYing some storage bins. After scouring the internet for some afforadable storage solutions and coming up over budget on everything we looked at, we came up with a plan to build {yes, build} some fun, functional, and very organized boxes. Imagine organizaton like this:
We’re going with a neutral color pallet, using leftover gray from our bedroom, shiny white shelves, and some muted charcoalish brown storage bins.
We’re also doing a super fun fabric wall a la’ the Real Housewives of Bucks County. Can’t wait to show your our take on it and the pretty fabric we chose.
I also plan on DIYing a roman shade for our long, plain window.
The final piece of this design is a chunky wood mirror {similar to the West Elm mirrors below} we scored at Menards on our supply shopping trip over the weekend for $15! Gotta love a good sale.
Are you as excited as we are? I started painting the wood over the weekend and Mike will hopefully get to work on cutting some of the boards this week. Since I’ve got plenty of time off over the next two weeks, I’m hoping to knock quite a bit of this project out. I’ll be sure to keep you posted on the progress!
Great Ideas Jessie! You guys did your homework!Thanks for sharing,I will look forward to using your ideas in the cottage! An organized closet puts me in a great mood!
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
It sounds perfect! I desperately need a closet re-do, too; I’ll look forward to your implementations!
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