The project within a project

Project 1 for 2010 - Master Bedroom

We started to tackle our latest project during the Christmas holiday, which was our master bedroom. And we are still working on it. The most time consuming part of it was tackling my closet. Here are a few pictures of the closet project, which is now almost complete. Next we have to tackle Jesse's closet where we will be installing the same closet system we did in mine. Then we have a few more doors to paint and hang, and pictures to put up on the walls, and the room will be complete. I would expect to see pictures of the completed project sometime in February.Originally closet system made of white painted boards haphazardly put up on the walls, to include the old owners clothes. I believe the man of the house used this closet, which I, Kristen will now be using. We tore out this system the week we moved in so we could install new carpet.

And this beautiful wall is what we found under the closet system. This particular closet must have been two separate rooms that they combined, and they never bothered to finish the back wall and instead put a piece of particleboard in front of it. Which we didn't want up, so now we were left with trying to make the wall presentable and getting a nice smooth finish out of it.

Here is the same wall with our new closet system in front of it. Jesse did a great job with the wall, and together we tackled putting up the system. It only took us 2 days to install the closet, and only a few choice words were exchanged. Mostly due to the fact that even though the wall got smoothed out, it was so very uneven we probably should have torn the whole thing out and replaced it before trying to put a very unforgiving system in place. But it looks great now, just don't peak behind my clothes where you will see shims installed almost near 1" in thickness, it's our little secret.