I’m working on the project this week while Steve is gone. I want to surprise him and I don’t worry about him reading my blogs; he rarely has time for it. I’m remodeling the master bedroom closet. I’ve never painted it, not since I built the house. Never had time for it before the builder put in the finishes. And the closet hardware wasn’t designed for optimum space requirements.
Ever since Stevie moved in, space in the closet has been kind of tight. Steve is a bit of clothes guy, and the kind that would appreciate a little bit of extra closet space.
Here’s the closet the way it looks like now. I have been assigned the left side of the closet, with the two racks, and Steve had the right side of the closet, with the one rack.
I figure with some adjustment, I can get about another 14 feet of rack space into it. I’ll let you know. I hate the wire rack system, but it is affordable. You’d be amazed at how much closet hardware costs. For this particular project, I spent $140 plus $35 for paint. I’m using some left over paint from the guest bathroom for the ceiling, and Graceful Gray for the walls.
The worse part of the job, I think, is removing the clips from the walls. Not all of the clips mind you. I’m not touching the clips that I plan to leave in place. It’s the ones that would interfere with the closet installation that I’m removing now, and this is a big hassle to do without removing drywall or unnecessarily damaging drywall. I use a combination of a flat head screw driver, and a flat putty knife to remove the clips. I try not to damage the clips and wall supports when I remove them. You never know what you might need tomorrow. Then I follow up with some drywall putty.
Here’s the new closet. Done just in time for father’s day.
With the modifications made to this closet and the second smaller one, “the man” closet, Steve is getting an extra 13 feet of rack space and I’m getting 2 more feet of rack space.
















