Countertop Options For The Walk-In Closet

I’ve to confess that I didn’t get a lot precise work on the closet finished this previous weekend. I wanted some relaxation to gear up for the work that must be finished this week — putting in the remainder of the molding and trim, shifting the washer and dryer into the room, and beginning the construct for the island. I did get the within of the washer and dryer cupboards painted, although. That’s not terribly thrilling, however I made a decision the within of those cupboards wanted to be painted to match the washer and dryer as an alternative of being left white.

However aside from that, any of my closet-related work was all in planning and attempting to make selections. And the most important determination I’m attempting to make proper now’s what countertop materials to make use of on the washer and dryer cupboards, in addition to on high of the island.

Initially, I had meant to do wooden counter tops utilizing the identical purple oak hardwood flooring that’s on the ground. I had plenty of it left over, so I believed I might put it to good use. Actually, I had already lower all the items for the washer cupboard countertop means at first of this closet challenge.

So I’m fairly positive that I’m going to do one thing totally different, and I narrowed it down to a few choices. I would like a complete of 30 sq. toes, so actual stone, quartz, and so on., is just too costly, even at remnant costs. I don’t need to pay near or greater than $1000 for counter tops for a closet. I’ll save the good stuff for our future new kitchen, however not for a closet.

The primary possibility is laminate. Laminate has come a great distance up to now few years. There are methods they will do the perimeters now which makes some laminate counter tops fairly exhausting to differentiate from actual stone counter tops…till you contact it, after all. However I believed laminate is likely to be an ideal possibility for the closet since I don’t want something that’s actually exhausting carrying in a closet like I might in a kitchen.

The one pattern I actually appreciated was this one from Formica known as Manhattan Marble. And naturally, it’s not low cost. I feel the set up worth got here to about $900 or so. I simply don’t need to pay that a lot for closet counter tops. It’s loopy to me that the set up worth for Formica today is just a bit lower than the set up worth for strong stone remnants.

The subsequent concept I had was to do concrete. I do know, I do know! Been there, finished that, proper? I’ve concrete counter tops in our kitchen, and I’ve vowed by no means once more to have concrete kitchen counter tops after they stained so badly the primary time round.

However that was a few years in the past, and after I had them refinished (which you can read about here), they seemed so a lot better. And for probably the most half (aside from the world the place I spilled isopropyl alcohol on it and didn’t understand it till two days later, so it ate by way of the end), the counter tops have held up remarkably effectively and nonetheless look actually good.

And I’ve a sense that concrete countertop sealers have come a great distance since my very first try. However once more, I received’t be doing something in a closet which may stain the counter tops. I don’t convey mustard or turmeric into my closet 😀 , so I feel it might end up a lot better getting used as closet counter tops. I priced it out for all the concrete, edge kinds, and different supplies. The value got here to about $450, together with delivery. However then I’d need to have somebody come assist me as a result of I can’t elevate and pour all of that concrete on my own. And sadly, my brother wouldn’t be accessible to assist me this time round due to his job.

So this leads me to the one possibility that I’m actually tempted to strive. I did a faux paint treatment on my living room coffee table to make it look like marble. I do know, a few of us cringe once we hear (or learn) these phrases “fake paint remedy”, proper? It takes us again to the 80s when that stuff was all the craze.

However I feel I did a reasonably good job on my espresso desk! And individuals who have really been inside my house have thought that it was actual marble…till they touched it. 😀