Walk-In Closet Progress: Redoing Shelves And Adding Shelves

Nicely, one other weekend has handed, and I nonetheless don’t have the closet primed and painted. However that doesn’t imply that I didn’t get a complete lot of needed work accomplished! I spent the weekend not solely including the final two cabinets to 2 of the closet sections, but in addition redoing the ten cabinets within the two cupboards that flank the doorway to the closet.

I had initially deliberate so as to add cupboard doorways to the 2 closets flanking the doorway in order that I’d have some closed storage within the room. However after giving it some thought, and seeing how these two sections seemed with the open cabinets, I made a decision to forgo the closet doorways and go away these sections open. I most popular the cohesive look of getting all the closets lining the partitions open. I’ll have all of my wanted drawer storage within the middle island.

Since I had deliberate so as to add inset doorways on these cupboards, I minimize and put in the unique cabinets in order that they sat again from the entrance of the cupboard about 1.5 inches. As soon as the entrance trim piece was put in on the cabinets, they sat simply behind the entrance trim on the cupboards, leaving simply sufficient room for inset cupboard doorways. You may see what I imply in these photos…

However entrance trim on all the remainder of the cabinets within the room sits flush with the trim on the entrance of the cupboards. So now that I made a decision to go away the doorways off of these two cupboards, I had to determine methods to carry that entrance trim on these ten cabinets ahead in order that in addition they sat flush with the entrance trim on the cupboards. There’s no manner I might go away the doorways off of these cupboards and have them look utterly totally different from the remainder of the cupboards.

I initially thought I might simply take away the entrance trim items, add a plywood extension to the cabinets, after which reattach the trim. That plan didn’t work out. Even when I had used a complete lot of wooden filler to fill within the joint between the primary shelf and the plywood extension, after which sanded them as easily as potential, I feared that it could nonetheless be apparent that these extensions had been there. I didn’t need that form of “make do” afterthought in my customized, built-from-scratch closet.

I lastly determined that the one manner I’d get that clear look that I need could be to chop all new plywood for these ten cabinets. In order that’s what I did. I eliminated all ten cabinets, minimize new plywood for these cabinets, after which needed to wooden fill and sand them easy earlier than I might add them to the cupboards. (As a reminder, I used a lesser grade of plywood on this complete closet to economize, so a few of the items are form of tough and want wooden filler and many sanding to make them easy.)

After which I made a decision to chop all new entrance trim items quite than reuse the items that I had eliminated as a result of within the technique of eradicating them, I form of gouged the perimeters of a few of these items.

Anyway, that complete course of took up all of my Saturday, however I acquired all ten new cabinets put in, trimmed, and wooden crammed. They nonetheless must be sanded, however right here’s how these finish cupboards look now.

They now have cabinets that match the remainder of the cabinets within the closet, with the entrance trim of the cabinets sitting flush with the cupboard trim.

It was a number of work to redo all of that, however it’s necessary for me to get it proper. I by no means need my initiatives to seem like apparent DIY initiatives, and I believe it’s necessary to do it proper with the intention to get an expert completed look. Imagine me, I didn’t need to redo all of that. I had hoped that I might both reside with the inset cabinets or discover a shortcut, however I knew I’d by no means be happy if I left these shorter cabinets that seemed totally different from all the remainder of the cabinets. And shortcuts in a customized closet that I’m constructing from scratch didn’t set effectively with me. If I’m going to go to the difficulty of constructing a customized, built-from-scratch walk-in closet, I need it accomplished proper. No shortcuts.

I additionally acquired the opposite two cabinets put in that I’ve been needing so as to add. I added the center shelf to separate the 2 bars the place I’ll be hanging shirts. That piece of plywood had an apparent bow to it as soon as I put in it, so I sat two weights on it in a single day (45 kilos in all) to take away that bow.

That’s the one shelf in your complete room that I had this downside with. Just a few others had slight bows to them after I put in them, however these had been simply straightened out as quickly as I added the entrance trim piece. However this one was unusually cussed, so it required weights in a single day. The weights took care of the problem.

And eventually, I acquired the underside shelf put in the center part on the other wall…

I really put in that one twice. The primary time, I had it 4 inches greater in order that it was even with the decrease cabinets on the 2 sections on both facet. However the part simply above that shelf might be my necklace storage, and I doubted that I had left sufficient room for the necklaces. So I eliminated the shelf, lowered it 4 inches, and reinstalled it.

So whereas I did get a complete lot of labor accomplished this weekend, it wasn’t precisely the work I wished to do. I’m so anxious to see paint on these cupboards, however I can’t rush the method. The excellent news is that I simply have one shelf left so as to add. The final remaining shelf that must be added is the glass-top shelf that can cowl my earring/ring drawer, however I don’t need to begin constructing that till I’ve that piece of tempered glass in hand. It’s purported to arrive tomorrow, so as soon as that will get right here, I can add the framing items and entrance trim piece for that shelf, after which all the constructing for the wall cupboards will formally be accomplished.

Each massive undertaking tends to have a degree the place I’ve to take a couple of steps again earlier than I can transfer ahead once more. That’s what this weekend was all about, however I’m so glad I took the time to redo these cabinets and be sure that they matched the remainder of the room. Now they appear intentional, like they had been designed to be open cabinets from the start, quite than wanting like an afterthought.

Right here’s how the entire room appears to be like at this level…

It’s getting there, y’all! I’m formally on my fifth week of engaged on this undertaking, and whereas it’s going decrease than I had hoped, I’m so extremely enthusiastic about the way it’s turning out. There’s nothing higher than one thing like this and feeling that delight of figuring out that I constructed every part with my very own two fingers. It positive would have been a lot simpler to make use of IKEA Pax wardrobes to create my closet, however it simply wouldn’t have been the identical. They wouldn’t have match the room as effectively, and I wouldn’t have that very same sense of, “I did that!” once I seemed on the closet. This one is all my very own creation and all my very own work, from the very starting. And I’m so near being prepared to color!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.