Still Undecided On How To Use This Space (Plus, The Details I Obsess Over)

I’ve gone by way of a number of thought. You’ll keep in mind that my authentic plan was to construct cupboards above each of them. That’s what I confirmed on this mockup from some time again.

Right here’s a visible of simply how tall the washer and dryer cupboards are. I’m solely 5 ft tall, so the counter tops on these cupboards actually come to the highest a part of my higher arm. (Please excuse my unbrushed hair and paint-covered shirt. 😀 )

My attain on this countertop is about to the entrance of the shallower closet cupboards.

If I actually stretch and attain again so far as I can, my fingertips are nonetheless about 10-12 inches from the again wall.

So my newest plan that I got here up with a number of weeks in the past was to place a pulley-style drying rack above the washer. I’ve discovered some on Amazon, and the pulley system is connected to the ceiling with one thing like a rope connected to a aspect wall that may enable me to decrease and lift the drying rack. However once more, to ensure that that to be helpful to me, it must be put in in direction of the entrance of the washer cupboard moderately than be tucked into the realm beside the shallower shelf unit subsequent to it.

The extra I give it some thought, the extra I don’t like that concept as a result of (1) with a purpose to use the pulley drying rack, I’d should decrease the rack so low that it will virtually be sitting on high of the washer countertop for me to put issues on it, and (2) y’all know the way obsessed I’m about symmetry, and having a drying rack hung in order that I may really attain it will make it seen from the doorway of the room, which might not solely throw off the symmetry across the window, however it will simply look ugly in entrance of that wallpapered wall. However actually, simply from a sensible standpoint, I can’t think about it being that helpful to me with me being so brief.

I considered placing open cabinets above the washer and dryer, however I’m proper again to the identical downside. If I’m having to succeed in over and up, I can solely attain as far as the entrance of the shelf unit subsequent to it. So something I retailer on these cabinets would both be issues that I virtually by no means use (wherein case, why even have them?), or they might be merely ornamental.

I’m telling you, being solely 5 ft tall is an actual ache typically. 😀 I do know being tall typically presents its personal set of issues (like discovering pants which can be lengthy sufficient), however there are occasions I want I may swap my brief woman issues for tall woman issues. 😀

So I’m type of feeling caught in planning this space. I believed the answer would have introduced itself by this level, but it surely hasn’t. And except somebody has an incredible thought for me, I believe I’m simply going to make or purchase some fairly art work to hold above the washer and dryer and go away it at that.

Or I may put up some very shallow cabinets that may serve an ornamental goal solely, type of just like the cabinets I’ve within the breakfast room.

After which I may add some colourful art work to these cabinets. However I actually don’t see these areas being of any sensible use to me in any respect.

And I’m probably not unhappy about it, to be sincere. This closet already has extra storage than I’ve ever had in my total life. And I nonetheless have an island to construct, which may have a great deal of drawers in it. I’ll have extra storage than I’ll know what to do with.

And so far as hanging garments to dry, I believe I’ll have loads of room on this part of the closet…

That part is just about my “overflow” part. The opposite two hanging sections have particular functions. The middle one is for shirts (one bar for brief sleeve, one bar for lengthy sleeve), and the part on the fitting is for pants and clothes.

And I deliberately put the one for pants and clothes on the fitting aspect moderately than having it on the left aspect up towards the cupboard flanking the doorway. So I may use the “overflow” part for hanging moist garments to dry. They’ll be proper out of the washer, so it’s not like they’ll be dripping moist.

Anyway, except somebody has an excellent thought of how I can use that area virtually, I believe I’ve resigned myself to the truth that it’s simply going to be fairly area moderately than helpful area.

One other element I’m attempting to work out in my thoughts is the wallpaper. I discussed above that I’m hoping to have the middle part of the cupboards wallpapered by the top of the day at the moment, or tomorrow on the newest. And now I’m questioning in regards to the sample. So right here’s my query.

The wallpaper has a really particular 27″ vertical repeat. Does the sample on the wallpaper within the cupboard part have to line up completely (or as completely as attainable) with the wallpaper sample on the again wall? If it’s hung a bit decrease within the cupboard part in order that the sample doesn’t line up completely with the again wall, will that look off? Will it appear like a mistake?

It should make a distinction in how a lot wallpaper is required, and I’ll have to determine if I’ve sufficient wallpaper if it must be hung in each areas at the very same top in order that the patterns line up precisely.

And likewise, ought to I wallpaper the aspect of those cupboards in order that the wallpaper appears to be like extra balanced when these areas straight on? Or ought to I simply hold the wallpaper to the wall areas, and paint the aspect of the cupboard and go away it at that? I type of suppose that may look lopsided.

*Sigh* These are the small print that I stress over and obsess about. It all the time helps me to make these choices if I can see examples of it carried out each methods, however up to now, I haven’t been capable of finding any examples to assist me resolve.