Closet Island – Change Of Design Plan (Plus, The Final Closet Punch List)

First, I received the remainder of the crown molding up across the washer and dryer areas, and I received all the nail holes wooden stuffed and sanded. The cuts within the corners aren’t nice as a result of none of those corners are completely sq., and I didn’t take the time to precisely measure every angle and minimize exactly. I simply minimize every part at a 45-degree angle. However that’s why we have now caulk, proper? 😀

So all the trim on these partitions — crown molding, baseboards, window trim — nonetheless must be caulked and painted.

One merchandise that I had fully forgotten about was that this doorway nonetheless must be framed out. Ugh. I had gotten so used to seeing it this fashion that my thoughts stopped seeing it as unfinished. Have you ever ever had that occur?

It’s like whenever you set a field of one thing within the nook to take someplace, and you then overlook about it. Then your thoughts will get so used to seeing it there that you simply don’t “see” it anymore. However clearly, the room isn’t completed till the doorway is framed out and completed.

As soon as the doorway is framed out, I’ll want so as to add this one remaining piece of crown molding throughout that wall above the doorway. Plus, I would like so as to add small items of trim the place the cupboards meet the wall.

So far as I can inform, the three sections of cupboards on the proper aspect of the room are completed aside from the shoe molding that should go proper on the backside on the baseboards.

I actually need to get the doorway framed out earlier than I add the shoe molding since that shoe molding will wrap across the aspect of the cupboards flanking the doorway and finish at that wall on both aspect of the doorway.

The identical goes for the cupboards on the left aspect of the room. These are fully completed aside from the shoe molding.

After I say that the proper and left aspect cupboards are completed, I’m not together with the ends, which clearly nonetheless should be primed and painted. I contemplate these areas a part of the washer and dryer areas in my thoughts. 😀 However these areas will even want some small vertical trim added the place the cupboards meet the partitions.

I gained’t add that trim till after the counter tops are carried out. And naturally, I nonetheless must construct counter tops for the washer and dryer cupboards. I additionally nonetheless want so as to add that high piece of trim to every of these cupboards (you possibly can see the uncooked fringe of the plywood high within the image under) and set up baseboards across the partitions contained in the washer and dryer cupboards. All of that trim must be wooden stuffed, caulked, and painted.

And that brings me to the final two huge initiatives that I feel will take essentially the most time. First, the chandelier makeover. I’m nonetheless not 100% positive how I’m going to do it. This can be a kind of initiatives that I determine as I am going alongside. However one way or the other, I’m going to remodel the chandelier from this quite easy brass-colored chandelier…

…into one thing impressed by this magnificence that can coordinate with my white flower sconces…

I’ve by no means tried my hand at soldering, so this can be my alternative. I purchased a soldering gun final 12 months, considering that I’d use it after I made the pendant mild above my desk within the studio, however I ended up not needing it. So this could be the time for me to be taught a brand new ability.

After which that leaves the final huge mission — the closet island. I’ve gone forwards and backwards on this design so many occasions. I’ve tweaked the design, modified my thoughts, tweaked it once more. However this previous weekend, I made a decision that I’m simply going to maintain it easy. I’m going to maintain all the drawers and cupboards on the lengthy sides of the island. The aspect that faces my jewellery/wallpapered cupboard part could have 4 drawers and two cupboard doorways. The cupboards might be near the washer, and that’s the place I’ll preserve additional detergent and no matter else must be near the washer and dryer.

And after contemplating all the choices for retaining the island moveable (in case I ever must get the washer and dryer out of the room), I’ve determined to design it like a double-sided dresser with turned wooden toes. That method, if it ever must be moved, it’s not hooked up to the ground. If it’s too heavy, I can simply take away the drawers, after which it’ll be simply movable. And I like the thought of it wanting like a separate piece of furnishings quite than being one thing constructed into the room. The aspect dealing with the hanging garments might be all drawers.

In the event you prefer to see lists in precise checklist kind, that is what my punch checklist seems like:

• Caulk and paint the remainder of the crown molding, window trim, and baseboards across the washer and dryer,
• Prime and paint the ends of the cupboards by the washer and dryer,
• Set up and paint the baseboards contained in the washer and dryer cupboards,
• End the trim across the washer and dryer cupboards — wooden fill, caulk, and paint,
• Work out the best way to transfer the washer and dryer into the room and get them connected,
• Work out what to do with the window for privateness,
• Body out the doorway,
• Trim out the doorway — wooden fill, caulk, and paint,
• Add the crown molding above the doorway — wooden fill, caulk, paint,
• Make the counter tops for the washer and dryer cupboards,
• Add the vertical trim the place the cupboards meet the partitions (by the washer and dryer, and by the doorway)
• Set up all the shoe molding and paint,
• Paint and set up the wall sconces above the washer and dryer,
• Hold the paintings above the washer and dryer,
• Remodel the chandelier into flowery goodness,
• Construct the middle island,
• Discover storage baskets for the cabinets on the tip cupboards (that don’t break the bank).

I feel that’s it. That’s rather a lot, however I can do it!