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 an entire lot of obligatory work executed! I spent the weekend not solely including the final two cabinets to 2 of the closet sections, but additionally 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 appeared with the open cabinets, I made a decision to forgo the closet doorways and depart these sections open. I most popular the cohesive look of getting the entire closets lining the partitions open. I’ll have all of my wanted drawer storage within the heart island.
Since I had deliberate so as to add inset doorways on these cupboards, I reduce and put in the unique cabinets in order that they sat again from the entrance of the cupboard about 1.5 inches. You possibly can see what I imply in these footage…
However entrance trim on the entire 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 the right way to deliver that entrance trim on these ten cabinets ahead in order that additionally they sat flush with the entrance trim on the cupboards. There’s no approach I may depart the doorways off of these cupboards and have them look utterly completely different from the remainder of the cupboards.
I initially thought I may 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 an entire lot of wooden filler to fill within the joint between the principle shelf and the plywood extension, after which sanded them as easily as doable, I feared that it could nonetheless be apparent that these extensions have been there.
I lastly determined that the one approach I’d get that clear look that I would like can be to chop all new plywood for these ten cabinets. In order that’s what I did. I eliminated all ten cabinets, reduce new plywood for these cabinets, after which needed to wooden fill and sand them clean earlier than I may add them to the cupboards. (Once more, I used a lesser grade of plywood to economize, so a few of the items are type of tough and want wooden filler and plenty of sanding to make them clean.)
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 type of gouged the perimeters of a few of these items.
Anyway, that complete course of took nearly all of my Saturday, however I obtained the entire ten new cabinets put in, trimmed, and wooden stuffed. 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 sitting flush with the cupboard trim.
It was a whole lot of work to redo all of that, but it surely’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, however I knew I’d by no means be happy if I left these shorter cabinets that appeared completely different from all the remainder of the cabinets.
I additionally obtained 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 the complete room that I had this downside with. A number of others had slight bows to them after I put in them, however these have 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 at last, I obtained the underside shelf put in the center part on the other wall…
I truly put in that one twice. The primary time, I had it 4 inches increased in order that it was even with the decrease cabinets on the 2 sections on both facet. However the part simply above that shelf will probably 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 an entire lot of labor executed this weekend, it wasn’t precisely the work I needed to do. I’m so anxious to see paint on these cupboards, however I can’t rush the method. The excellent news is that all the things is now proper, and I simply have one shelf left so as to add. The final remaining shelf that must be added is the glass-top shelf that may 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 alleged 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 the entire constructing for the wall cupboards will formally be executed.
Each large challenge tends to have some extent the place I’ve to take just a few 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 make it possible for they matched the remainder of the room. Now they appear intentional, like they have been designed to be open cabinets from the start, quite than trying 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 challenge, 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 taking a look at one thing like this and feeling that delight of realizing that I constructed all the things with my very own two palms. It certain would have been a lot simpler to make use of IKEA Pax wardrobes to create my closet, but it surely simply wouldn’t have been the identical. They wouldn’t have match the room as properly, and I wouldn’t have that very same sense of, “I did that!” after I appeared 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!
The A2D Every day:
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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 possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
