Immediately is Could 1st. I formally began engaged on this closet on March twelfth. That signifies that I’ve been at this challenge for seven weeks. The entire bed room suite has been underway for longer than that, clearly. It was on the finish of final yr that the final work started.
It was on the finish of final yr that my mother and I cleared out all the bed room objects, tore down the 2 closets that flanked the window, and received it prepared for the contractor to do his half. So the room went from this…
And after we had been carried out, it seemed like this…
Then I handed it over to the contractor to do his half. After having contractor issues (which I wrote about right here) and needing a while to regroup, I turned my focus to my workshop for some time. After I was lastly prepared to show my consideration again to the bed room suite, I employed out the set up of the flooring within the bed room suite. So this room, and the entire bed room suite, has been below development because the finish of final yr.
Seven weeks looks like a extremely very long time to me, so it could be straightforward to be disillusioned with my progress. However I knew going into this challenge that this may be my largest construct but. After I look again at different massive tasks that I’ve carried out, seven weeks doesn’t seem to be very lengthy compared.
My pantry, which I constructed from scratch, took me about 3.5 months from starting to finish, and it was about half the dimensions of the closet.
And my studio…properly, that challenge took 17 months from the day I began sanding the ground to color it, to the day that it was fully completed. It’s a a lot greater room, but it surely didn’t require fairly as a lot constructing since I used IKEA cupboards in there, and I simply custom-made them with trim and paint. However being a a lot greater room, it did require extra tasks usually that had to enter that room so as to end it.
So I assume seven weeks isn’t actually that dangerous. At the start of this yr, this room seemed like this…
And on the finish of the day on March twelfth, the day I take into account the official begin date of this walk-in closet challenge, it seemed like this…
And over the course of the final seven weeks, I’ve constructed all the cupboard containers…
Added all the cabinets…
Trimmed out all the cupboards…
Added all the ornamental molding and corbels…
Constructed the glass-top jewellery drawer and pull-out necklace bar…
Primed, caulked, sanded, and painted all the cupboards…
And hung the wallpaper, mirror, and sconces.
And alongside the best way, there have been all types of different time-consuming issues I needed to do, like sanding the ground across the perimeter earlier than I might connect the baseboards to the cupboards, putting in the vent for the dryer, and so on.
Throughout a giant challenge, it may be straightforward to start out feeling disillusioned with the velocity at which the challenge is progressing. I’ve type of hit that time with this closet. So I feel it’s vital to take a minute, look again on the progress that has been made, and understand simply how a lot has been carried out.
That’s why I all the time encourage folks to take footage alongside the best way. Take a lot of footage earlier than and through a challenge. When you’re doing a giant challenge like transforming a kitchen, take a lot of footage, as a result of I can virtually assure you that you’ll hit some extent throughout that rework whenever you marvel if issues are literally getting achieved, and if the challenge will ever come to an finish. It may be an encouragement to look again at precise footage (reasonably than relying in your reminiscence) to the very starting and be capable of see the precise progress via a collection of photographs.
And whereas I’m very able to be carried out with this closet, and I might very simply be disillusioned that it has taken this lengthy to this point, I’m additionally extremely inspired once I examine how this room seemed firstly of the yr and what it appears to be like like now…
I don’t understand how for much longer this room goes to take me, however I’ve determined to remain targeted on this room till it’s completed. Matt and I’ve talked over the choices, and he didn’t like the thought of me leaving the closet unfinished and beginning on the bed room in any respect. We’ve provide you with two different choices (primarily based in your options) for the place we will put his recliner — the studio or the bed room whereas I’m ending the closet. He says he will be snug in both place, and each locations have a TV, so we’ll check out each of them and see which one he likes higher.
So so long as he’s on board with me engaged on the closet till it’s fully completed, that’s what I’ll do. I nonetheless have fairly a listing of issues that should be carried out in right here, however the largest and hardest half is behind me. I’d like to get it completed by the top of Could, so we’ll see how that works out. The one factor left on my listing that will throw a wrench into that plan is the island. I’ll be constructing that from scratch, and it’s been some time since I’ve constructed one thing with a lot of drawers from scratch. I really feel assured that I can do it, however it might take me longer than I feel it would.
Aside from that, the remainder of the objects are fairly small compared. However I’m going to remain targeted and see simply how shortly I can get all of it completed. Immediately is lighting day. I’ll be including all the recessed lights, eradicating the ceiling fan, and hanging the brand new chandelier. I’ll must take it down sooner or later and provides it a makeover, however I can use it as is for now to provide extra mild to the room.
So right here’s to a profitable month of Could! Let’s see if I can get this factor completed by the top of the month.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
