Y’all, it has been an exhausting previous couple of days, however my mother and I bought every little thing completed that wanted to be completed to ensure that the work to begin on the visitor bed room that can quickly be was my closet and laundry room. I did take off on Thursday, and we had an exquisite and enjoyable Thanksgiving Day. However on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, it was pedal to the steel making an attempt to get every little thing completed by final evening.
The primary order of enterprise was to show our breakfast room into our short-term bed room. We’ve completed this earlier than again in 2019 and 2020, and we’re doing it once more. I needed to empty the room not solely of the furnishings (simply the chairs, actually), but additionally these stacks and stacks of hardwood flooring that might be utilized in our bed room suite.
I bought all of these containers moved and stacked towards the furthest wall within the space the place the brand new flooring might be put in (I’m operating out of room to place issues), after which my mother helped me carry all the unboxed items in and stack these neatly on high. My thought was that by the point I attain this wall throughout the flooring set up, I received’t have a lot to maneuver out of the way in which (relying on how precisely I did my calculations) in an effort to end up the previous couple of rows.
Subsequent, I wanted to empty out my closets. I had nowhere to hold my garments, so I checked out a number of freestanding choices you could purchase and assemble. Sadly, those that have been sufficiently big for what I wanted both regarded fairly flimsy or have been about $200 or extra. So I made a decision to construct my very own. It’s not fancy, however it did the trick. It took me about an hour to construct from begin to end. The development may be very fundamental, and it value about $80 utilizing two steel hanging bars and some items of lumber from Lowe’s.
As soon as that was constructed, I moved it into the sunroom near the washer and dryer, after which moved all of my garments in right here and hung them up.
Then I wanted a spot for my footwear. There was no room within the sunroom for these, so I introduced all of them into my studio and lined them up towards the lengthy cupboard. Possibly I can discover a higher resolution, however this was the very best I may do in a pinch.
I needed to chortle as a result of a number of commenters have mentioned on previous posts that it’s going to be very inconvenient for me to make use of a separate bed room as my closet as a result of I’ll must go from our toilet, into the hallway, and into the brand new closet which is technically a separate bed room. However after residing briefly like this, with my garments within the laundry room, my footwear in my studio, and my jewellery within the toilet, and actually having to go from one finish of the home clear to the opposite simply to place an outfit collectively and prepare to go someplace, will probably be a really welcome change, and can really feel so handy, having every little thing organized in that one location comparatively near the lavatory and bed room.
Anyway, after the closets have been emptied out, my mother and I began eradicating every little thing else from the room, from issues that Matt and I take advantage of each day (which needed to be organized within the breakfast room) to the furnishings that I most likely received’t maintain (which we moved to my workshop till I’ve time to take footage and checklist on Market).
After which it was time for the closets to return out. And let me let you know, once I constructed these closets, I constructed them to final. I clearly by no means meant for them to be taken aside as a result of I assumed I used to be by no means going to get these items out. However I lastly bought them aside, and we hauled all of the items out of the room and into my workshop the place I now have a pleasant stack of supplies that I can repurpose into one other constructing undertaking.
I beloved these closets, and so they served us (or me) very effectively. But it surely fully modified the look of the room getting them out of there.
Anyway, we labored our tails off, and we bought it completed. I feel we completed up at about 7:30 final evening.
So, goodbye, bed room. It was good whereas it lasted.
So let’s take one final look again at this bed room. It was a enjoyable undertaking to place collectively, and it was a comfortable bed room for us for the final 4 years.
Whereas it was good, and it served us effectively, it was fairly small for our liking (the closets made the usable ground house smaller), and there wasn’t practically sufficient closet house. It was a pleasant bed room, however we’re on to greater and higher issues now.
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 may study extra about me right here.
