Wednesday, August 21, 2013

DIY Walk In Cloffice


I love my cloffice. That's code word for closet office and she is beautiful. 


Fred and I live in a three bedroom house. One bedroom for us, a guest room and a room we throw our crap in. One day Fred said to me, why don't you make that junk room a walk in closet for yourself. 

At first I was like no, I'll have myself a giant craft room, yeah a craft room! That lasted all of two seconds and I was back to cloffice.


Yay, craft room? NO
The other thing is, given my history of changing and moving and rearranging everything all the time, I didn't want to do built ins in the cloffice but I still wanted it to look nice. Now I don't know if I just suck at googling or not but really the info for that was so limited on what people had done and HOW they did it. There are a ton of search results that say add crown molding! put in a dresser! Im like okay but really what to use for the shelving and hanging without breaking my piggy bank on something I may change anyway?



So here's what I came up with-I bought two of these cabinets at Big Lots. Frickin perfecto for shoes. Cabinets Big Lots -
http://www.biglots.com/p/c/bookcases-and-office-storage/dark-russet-5-shelf-bookcase


Then I knew I wanted -around the room- shelving to keep things up high and away from the animals so I went to the Home Depot and got enough shelving to go along the long wall and its perpendicular wall on the left side.  http://www.homedepot.com/p/Rubbermaid-12-in-x-48-in-Black-Shelf-FG4B8100BLA/100118601#.Ucx9IOt4XdQ
Then on to Target where they have a plethora of racks and storage items for all kind of DIY closet making and organizing. (it can be overwhelming so take your time so copy and paste at your own risk)

http://www.target.com/ssearchTerm=closet&category=0%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Call+categories&lnk=snav_sbox_closet


Once, I got the layout down, I started arranging clothing, shoes, purses, etc. Really, it's a personal space so you gotta do what works for you. Of course adding a table in the middle for aiding in packing for trips, folding laundry to be put away and, in my case, for crafting, is absolutely necessary.




For the actual office workspace, I started by taking off the closet doors. Who needs those guys anyway? Then, I went to work adding this rad wrapping paper I found at World Market. You have to do math here to make sure you get enough. Then, when you buy enough, buy four more rolls. Just saying. I attached the "wallpaper" by using french furniture nails I got off of ebay. 3000 of those suckers for $9.99. What a deal. I painted the trim in a gold leaf color to match the wallpaper.





After all of that was said and done, I pretty much used what I had laying around the house. The white dresser was left over from the move and just needed some touch ups. The white desk tops/shelving came from the five second stint the cloffice was just a craft room and the rest is just organizing and pleasing yourself.

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