Walk-In Closet Progress – Closet Rods & Finished Ceiling (Plus, Two DIY Tips)

I’ll begin with the closet rods. I completely love how these matte gold rods look towards the blue cupboards!

Putting in these rods was fairly easy. They got here with these mounting brackets which have these 5mm pins on the again, after which they’re held in place with a screw within the center. (Please excuse my gross fingers. I at all times say that it is best to by no means belief somebody who claims to be a DIYer and has clear fingers and ideal fingernails. 😀 )

To put in these brackets with the pins, I marked the place I wished them to go inside the cupboards.

However right here’s my first tip. For those who’re putting in a number of objects that every one should be put in on the identical peak/distance, fairly than utilizing your tape measure to mark and measure the position for every one individually, minimize scrap items of wooden to make use of for this course of. I wished all of my brackets to be 8.5 inches from the again of the cupboards, and 1.75 inches from the brace for the shelf above it. So I minimize two items of scrap wooden. I minimize the primary to eight.5 inches, and used that to rapidly mark the vertical line for my brackets…

After which I minimize one other piece of scrap wooden to 1.75 inches to rapidly mark the space from the shelf brace above it.

That method, I don’t need to rely on my accuracy in utilizing a measuring tape for each mark, which is nice, as a result of typically I make errors in my measurements. This can be a foolproof solution to get all the measurements precisely proper, and it goes a lot sooner.

And right here’s my second tip. When that you must drill holes for one thing like these mounting brackets which have pins in them, and people holes should be in very exact locations, don’t attempt to measure and mark that spacing utilizing a tape measure. Simply use one thing like paint or lipstick on the backs of the pins and press that to the wall or cupboard the place that you must drill the holes. For these, I used the darkest lipstick I’ve (and barely put on).

After which I lined up the highest pin to the purpose the place my two marks crossed, and lined up the underside pin on the vertical line, after which I knew precisely the place I wanted to drill the holes. No guesswork. No measuring with a tape measure and hoping that I bought the measurements precisely proper.

Each match completely as a result of the marks got here straight from the pins on the bracket.

So I very simply pushed that bracket into these completely spaced holes, after which I used to be in a position to safe it with the screw that was supplied with the bracket.

I’m all about taking the guesswork out of processes that I must repeat again and again and discovering methods to repeat these processes that don’t depend on me utilizing a tape measure to mark every particular person placement. And doing it this manner makes the method go a lot sooner.

So the excellent news is that that course of went very easily. I bought the brackets put in for all 4 rods, and I bought three of the 4 rods minimize and in place.

The unhealthy information is that there was no such foolproof methodology for chopping the bars. Each was a barely completely different measurement, so I needed to measure, mark, and minimize them individually. And on the final one, I managed to chop it one inch too quick. 😢

No drawback. I can simply order a brand new one, proper? Flawed. They’re out of inventory on the one I would like. *Sigh* In fact they’re. I’m so pissed off with myself for this. Measure twice, minimize as soon as, proper? I didn’t do this, and now I don’t fairly know what I’m going to do. I can’t discover a solution to contact the vendor on Amazon to see when or in the event that they’ll have extra, so I could need to likelihood it with one other model. I can’t imagine I did that. I needed to minimize a complete of six rods for this closet, and I managed to do 5 of them excellent and tousled on the final one.

After I went to mattress final night time, the ceiling was nonetheless utterly moist from the second coat of paint. However right here’s the way it regarded early this morning after every thing was dry.

I used a satin sheen on the cupboards and flat on the ceiling.

It’s truly form of laborious to inform that the ceiling is blue except you’ll be able to see it subsequent to the white partitions.

However I’m actually pleased with how this turned out. Drywall is my least favourite factor to do, and I’m not nice at it. So after I needed to do repairs on the ceiling, I actually tried to take my time and never rush by that course of in order that I may get it as clean as potential. A professional may have carried out it significantly better than I did, however even at that, I actually don’t suppose that anybody would discover the repaired areas.

I believe that appears fairly darn good! In fact, utilizing flat paint helped. If you wish to disguise imperfections, flat paint is the way in which to go.

Right here’s a reminder of what the ceiling regarded like a few days in the past…

And right here it’s completed…

I ought to point out that it seems just like the room is a little bit darker now with the darker ceiling, however I don’t actually suppose it’s. I had turned down the brightness on the lights as a result of it was hurting my eyes to work on the ceiling with the lights turned as much as full brightness. I forgot to show them again up all the way in which earlier than taking the images this morning. With them turned to full brightness, the room continues to be very vibrant.

In order that huge challenge is completed! New lighting…test. Repaired ceiling…test. Primed and painted ceiling…test. Closet rods put in…3/4 of a test.

That’s a reasonably ceiling, if I do say so myself. 😀