Walk-In Closet Progress, An Apology, and A Maniac

I wish to begin right this moment’s put up by issuing a public apology to my mother. 🤣 In Friday’s put up, I discussed that she had advised me to color stripes on the ends of my island, and I mentioned that we didn’t discuss in regards to the particulars of the stripes, so I simply went with the final concept of “stripes in colours from the wallpaper” and did this mockup and credited the thought to her.

So I’d wish to take this chance to supply a public apology to my mother for misrepresenting her artistic concept and impugning her artistic imaginative and prescient and inventive eye. After which yesterday after church, I spotted that I had missed an electronic mail from my mother the place she issued a public assertion. Oh my gosh, y’all. I used to be laughing so exhausting I had tears streaming down my face. However as per my mother’s needs, I’ll put up her public assertion right here…

Oh my goodness!!!  These stripes are positively NOT what I had envisioned!  They draw all consideration away from the wallpaper.  Discuss CLASH!!!  My first alternative was darkish blue with a white high.  I solely recommended stripes since you have been so decided to make use of pink.  I believed massive darkish blue stripes with small and even tiny pink stripes.  Your footage and mockups don’t appear to point out how very massive that island is.  If you happen to paint it pink, it’s going to scream “LOOK AT ME” whenever you stroll in quite than directing the attention to the wallpaper.  I feel darkish blue would make the wallpaper pop.  However it’s your home, and you’ve got the proper to be fallacious.  😊

🤣🤣 So once more, Mother, I challenge this public apology to you. (She did need me to emphasise that that is all in good enjoyable. We’ve a really enjoyable relationship, and we joke round loads about our artistic variations and differing opinions.)

So with that behind us, I do have a strong plan. However I didn’t get as far with it as I had hoped this weekend as a result of…effectively…I’ll get to that. However right here’s what I did get carried out.

First, I bought the toes on the island moved out. If you happen to’ll bear in mind, I had connected the toes earlier than including all the trim. And I made the error of not accounting for the trim after I marked and measured the position for the toes. So as soon as the trim went on, the toes have been barely noticeable.

So whereas my buddy was nonetheless on the town, I had her and my mother assist me flip the island over on its high in order that I may transfer the toes. Since I had glued them on with wooden glue, I had to make use of my Dremel Multi-Max to get them off. Then I reduce six items of 1/2-inch plywood to connect to the underside in order that the toes may very well be moved out sufficient for the reason that trim caught up 1/2-inch from the plywood base.

With these plywood items offering a stage space with the trim, I used to be then capable of measure, mark, and drill the brand new holes for the toes.

After which I re-attached them (once more, utilizing wooden glue) about 1/4″ from the sting of the trim.

And with that, it regarded so a lot better and extra balanced. You’ll be able to really see the toes now.

And now the toes might be clearly seen from all 4 sides of the island.

After that, I spent fairly a little bit of time on the highest. I sanded it down fully to get that reddish pink paint off, after which sanded all the way down to 220-grit to get it as easy as attainable. I additionally crammed in that deep groove within the trim across the edge with wooden filler all the best way round and sanded it easy. Since I’m going to color it to appear to be a really gentle marble, I didn’t need that deep groove as a result of that’s sort of a useless giveaway that it’s wooden trim. With out that deep groove, it seems extra like an actual edge profile that you just would possibly see on actual marble. After which I bought it primed and sanded all the way down to 220-grit in order that it’s as easy as attainable.

Simply with these two adjustments, it seems so a lot better. Regardless that the highest is simply primer proper now, I like the brightness that the white provides to the room.

I’ll perform a little bit extra sanding to ensure the corners are as seamless as attainable on that edge trim, after which I hope to get the highest completed right this moment.

I additionally bought all ten drawer bins painted. I hadn’t deliberate on portray them, however I very clearly purchased the fallacious plywood to make my drawer bins. I mistakenly purchased a 1/2-inch plywood that’s primed on one aspect and veneer on the opposite. I didn’t understand I used to be shopping for a primed plywood. However the veneer aspect doesn’t appear to be veneer, both. It doesn’t have that pure heat brown coloration that plywood usually has. I imply, it did after I purchased it, however because it sat in my workshop, it developed this vintage (yellowed) white coloration, which is fairly ugly. So I made a decision to color the within of all the bins white. That was a time-consuming and unplanned step on this island venture, however I didn’t need these yellowish drawer bins.

After which, quite than utilizing wallpaper on the ends of the drawer bins, I made a decision to only paint them a enjoyable coloration. I searched by my stash of paint and located this one which I believed would work. That is Behr Watermelon Punch, and it’s one of many 15 colours I used on the house fitness center partitions. I feel it’ll be a pleasant punch of coloration when the drawers are open. I solely painted the ends as a result of the backs received’t present, and the fronts can be coated with drawer fronts.