This previous weekend, I got here to the belief that I could have to show my consideration to our visitor bed room before I had anticipated. The state of affairs in right here (particularly, the closet and storage state of affairs) has reached a degree the place I simply can’t cope with it for much longer. Or reasonably, I don’t need to cope with it for much longer.
On Saturday night time, as I used to be looking for one thing to put on to church the following morning, I used to be turning into increasingly more pissed off, kicking sneakers out of the best way, tripping over hangers, digging by way of a pile of garments, and many others. One thing positively wants to alter, and I would like to seek out time to implement these modifications very quickly.
As a result of I had eliminated the one tiny authentic closet within the room, I wanted so as to add storage some other place within the room. So I made a decision to construct these two closets flanking the window.
In deciding what sort of doorways to placed on the closets, I opted to do sliding doorways. I used to be afraid that swinging doorways might require an excessive amount of area on this small room, they usually wouldn’t have the ability to totally open. So the sliding doorways appeared like a intelligent answer.
We’ve lived with these closets for 2 years now (since this visitor bed room is at the moment getting used as our essential bed room till our addition is constructed), and the closet state of affairs simply isn’t figuring out. The closets aren’t organized properly, and the sliding doorways aren’t serving to the state of affairs in any respect.
Right here’s the state of affairs. I don’t have sufficient shoe storage. As you’ll be able to see within the picture above, that one shelf unit is all I’ve for sneakers. Since all of my sneakers don’t match on these cabinets, and I actually don’t have anyplace else to place them for now, I are likely to toss the sneakers that don’t match contained in the closet in entrance of the closet. After which they pile up like this…
And because the closet opens by sliding the door to the suitable over the window, and I’m solely 5 toes tall, that pile of sneakers in entrance of the closet (which I tidied up earlier than taking the image 😀 ) makes it very tough to succeed in and slide the closet door open to entry garments.
So, as folks often do when coping with a constant pain-in-the-neck problem like that, I began taking the trail of least resistance. As an alternative of preventing the pile of sneakers to open the door and hold my garments up, I began tossing and piling my garments onto the highest of the desk between the closets (the desk the place I really used to sit down and skim each night time, so now I can’t do this anymore, both). However the desk isn’t that huge, in order the pile will get larger, a number of the garments fall off the again and onto the ground. Others begin getting piled on the little stool.
And as soon as the pile begins falling to the ground and spreading to the stool, I can not push the stool all the best way below the desk, which signifies that even on these events after I do stretch over the pile of sneakers to attempt to open the closet door, it solely opens midway as a result of now the stool is obstructing the door from opening all the best way.
It’s an absolute mess, and making an attempt to reside with this for for much longer is solely not going to do. The underside line is that I would like to tug every thing out of those closets (each of them…the opposite one is sort of as ineffective), and simply begin over. And all of it wants to start out with extra shoe storage since that’s the primary domino that results in all of this different mess.
I saved considering I might simply reside with it, and making an attempt to persuade myself that it could be a waste to spend time engaged on this room once we’re going to have an even bigger, higher, extra organized bed room sooner or later. Nevertheless it might nonetheless be a 12 months earlier than we have now our new bed room…or extra. I simply don’t know proper now.
So I have to get this below management. It’s not nearly aesthetics. I imply, sure, it seems horrible and messy. I don’t like having to have a look at this mess on a regular basis, or reside with it. Nevertheless it’s additionally about creating peace in our house. And if I’m having to combat this mess each time I have to get able to go someplace, that impacts my angle and my temper (like after I search and seek for a specific black sweater for half-hour and might’t discover it anyplace within the pile), and that impacts the peace in our house. I’ve received to get this below management, and shortly.
I could must discover a short-term storage answer outdoors of the bed room (maybe within the sunroom) for my shoe storage. If I can transfer all of my sneakers out of the bed room, that may briefly remedy the issue. It wouldn’t be very handy to have my sneakers in a totally totally different room, however there’s nothing handy about having them piled in entrance of the closet and never with the ability to use the closet, both.
So I need to get this accomplished quickly, however I additionally don’t need to cease engaged on the studio. I particularly don’t need to waste days like we’re going to have this week, with the temperature within the higher 60s and low 70s. This may be the proper week to be outdoors and get the remainder of my studio cupboard doorways and drawer fronts trimmed out, primed, and painted! So I don’t precisely know after I’ll have the ability to work within the closet group, however hopefully I can discover a time within the very close to future.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 can learn more about me here.
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