Our new closet

Z and I redid our closet yesterday and it's great! It's a small walk-in, about 5' by 6', and we installed shelving on all three sides (not including the side with the door.)

We started with a very basic closet. Zs side had two hanging bars.

My side had one bar, but at two heights.

I used the ClosetMaid Shelf Track system. I started with their flexible and helpful online closet design application, the Visual Storage Planner. It lets you enter the dimensions of your space and design your closet using their parts. You can see both elevation and interactive 3D views of the closet to make sure that you like the design. Then you can print out a parts list to take to the store.

Home Depot will cut the shelving for you, and because we had the detailed parts list, we were able to have our cuts made at the store, which saved a lot of time.

The demo of the existing closet was a pain, because there were layers of paint over wood shelving pieces (click on photos to get full horror!).


We had to do a lot of spackling to fill holes and ripped drywall paper, and then we primed everything
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We decided not to put a finish coat of paint on the walls because we were running out of time and our clothes were all over the place. It's nice a bright white though, and looks just fine.

With the new shelving, we should be able to get most of the stuff off these open storage units in our bedroom.

The shelving used to be in our garage in Atlanta(!) but they're headed for my basement room that I'm organizing this month.