A customized closet desk that fully reworked the way in which I work at home.
Once we moved into our home years in the past, there was just one room that may work as a house workplace area for me: the third bed room. And whereas I wished my very own area for work, I additionally actually wished to have a visitor bed room, in hopes of family and friends visiting typically. To not point out, the visitor bed room was actually darkish, solely getting solar within the early morning for like an hour.
So, we made that third bed room a visitor bed room and I used our eating room desk as a desk for all of my laptop work for shut to three years. On the time we had a really massive eating room desk, so it principally labored okay. However after we had individuals over, I’d need to clear off my piles of stuff that had accrued, and so on.
Ultimately having no actual / devoted workplace area grew to become fairly annoying and possibly even irritating at occasions. So after we had skylights put in within the visitor bed room, I began to see that spare bed room in a different way. With a lot pure gentle (really considered one of my favourite qualities in a house), it didn’t matter that it was only a closet in our spare bed room. I used to be glad to provide it a try to carve out an area only for me.
So, we eliminated the previous shelving that I put up some time again, from the unique closet makeover. Since, because it seems, we don’t have friends come to go to all that often. I beloved the previous shelving, however the want for my very own workspace received out, ultimately. And constructed out a DIY closet desk for me within the visitor bed room.
I wished one thing much like what we have now in one other room. So, identical to the built-in DIY bookshelves which are within the indifferent workplace, it’s white oak ply and Jeff made it from scratch. I helped slightly towards the top.
We talked by the design and got here up with one thing that may give me some hid storage, however would nonetheless be fairly and add to the room as an entire. I wished it to appear like a cross between a bit of furnishings and a built-in. And protecting with a few of my desk group concepts from the previous, I included just a few facets of my minimalist desk DIY on this new construct. Just like the open shelving for books.
One other precedence was hiding the waterline on the again closet wall, that was meant for a washer and dryer.
Once we purchased the home, we determined to depart the waterline the place it was, moderately than take away it, in case we ever wished to reconfigure our laundry setup. Or maybe the subsequent one who buys our home, would need the laundry room in the home. Who is aware of.
We at present have our washer and dryer setup within the storage. So we may hold each sq. inch of inside area for every part else. In a small home, it’s important to weigh these sorts of issues out.
Evolution of the visitor bed room closet
This third bed room seemed fairly completely different after we purchased the home. For starters, the closet was really two separate areas, with no doorways. Neither one of many closet niches appeared massive sufficient on their very own to be useful for us. So after we changed the previous flooring with hardwood, we additionally had the closets demoed to develop into one bigger closet, moderately than two tiny ones.
Above is what it seemed like with the 2 tiny closets. After which it grew to become this (beneath)…
After which ultimately this…
I beloved the white cabinets – it made the entire room really feel greater and simply nicer generally. However ultimately, we accrued an excessive amount of stuff to maintain it wanting good. No storage in the home keep in mind.
And that’s proper across the time that I noticed I wanted a extra devoted workplace area, so we pivoted once more and made it useful for my wants. And now, it appears to be like like this…
The closet desk
As I discussed earlier than, the method was similar to the diy bookshelves. All the things was made, dry fitted within the area, after which taken again outdoors for staining / sealing, after which introduced again in and put in.
We labored on it slightly bit at a time… Jeff constructed the cupboard bases and we acquired these in first.
Then got here the matching wooden prime. This was the one approach we may make sure that every part would correctly, since there’s a lip / indent on either side of the wall, like a closet would sometimes have.
DIY bulletin board
I made a easy bulletin board from a giant piece of thick cork, that I coated in linen cloth, leftover from my DIY spherical headboard.
After which I made a wooden body for it with some scrap wooden and hung it on the wall.
Floating shelf
I additionally wished some vertical storage, so we did a thick floating shelf that spans the whole size of the closet. Works nice for the felt baskets I already had, for storing craft provides and different issues I need to have the ability to get to simply, however don’t want on a regular basis.
We used (and actually like) brackets from Shelfology (you’ll find these sorts of floating shelf brackets many different locations as properly although).
And that’s it for my closet desk / mini workplace area. We might now not have a standard visitor bed room closet, however we did achieve a really useful area for my work within the course of. And I’m so pleased with the way it turned out.
Have you ever ever transformed a closet area in a bed room to one thing else totally? I’d love to listen to about it, in that case.
