Y’all, it has been an exhausting previous few days, however my mother and I received every part executed that wanted to be executed to ensure that the work to begin on the visitor bed room that may quickly be was my closet and laundry room. I did take off on Thursday, and we had a beautiful and stress-free Thanksgiving Day. However on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, it was pedal to the metallic making an attempt to get every part executed by final evening.
The primary order of enterprise was to show our breakfast room into our short-term bed room. We’ve executed 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 in addition these stacks and stacks of hardwood flooring that might be utilized in our bed room suite.
I received all of these packing containers moved and stacked in opposition to 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 deliver the entire unboxed items in and stack these neatly on prime. My thought was that by the point I attain this wall throughout the flooring set up, I gained’t have a lot to maneuver out of the way in which (relying on how precisely I did my calculations) with a view to end up the previous few 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 which you can 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, but it surely did the trick. It took me about an hour to construct from begin to end. The development may be very primary, and it price about $80 utilizing two metallic 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 sneakers. There was no room within the sunroom for these, so I introduced all of them into my studio and lined them up in opposition to the lengthy cupboard. Possibly I can discover a higher answer, however this was one of the best I might do in a pinch.
I needed to snigger as a result of a number of commenters have stated 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 rest room, into the hallway, and into the brand new closet which is technically a separate bed room. However after dwelling quickly like this, with my garments within the laundry room, my sneakers in my studio, and my jewellery within the rest room, 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, it will likely be a really welcome change, and can really feel so handy, having every part organized in that one location comparatively near the toilet and bed room.
Anyway, after the closets have been emptied out, my mother and I began eradicating every part else from the room, from issues that Matt and I exploit day by day (which needed to be organized within the breakfast room) to the furnishings that I in all probability gained’t preserve (which we moved to my workshop till I’ve time to take footage and listing on Market).
After which it was time for the closets to come back out. And let me inform you, once I constructed these closets, I constructed them to final. I clearly by no means supposed 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 received 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 venture.
I beloved these closets, they usually served us (or me) very nicely. But it surely fully modified the look of the room getting them out of there.
Anyway, we labored our tails off, and we received it executed. I believe 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 venture 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 nicely, it was fairly small for our liking (the closets made the usable ground area smaller), and there wasn’t almost sufficient closet area. 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.
