Thursday, April 5, 2012

I Need a Closet

The house is not too horrid in paint choices from the prior owners,

The first to be painted: Master Bedroom Closet

There was a cheesy flimsy white wire shelf unit in the master closet, it had to go, and since I am a pack rat I have an expensive closet unit that I removed form my former home in 2008. Yes, I took the closet system with me when I left!!! That unit and I have history, I had to go to the hospital because I got a piece of metal in my eye when I was custom fitting it; have you ever had a Dr. remove metal form your eye with a "flick" of a hypodermic needle!?!?! Anyhoo...the orientation of the closet was all wrong, and no room for my "Wall-O-Shoes". Holes in walls patched and I had a small amount of ceiling white (as if I ever paint a ceiling or anything white) that my mom gave me, it was enough to cover the top half of the closet - figured the white would freshen it up. Then I stripped the paint on the molding, patched some hook holes and went out to get some real paint. I decided to only paint the bottom half cream, the white is nice, but way to bright. 

As you can see the other woodwork and built in need to be stripped...eventually, but for now they are fine. Three tones of white, how lovely...meh.

I also added window tint to the window - weird?!?!? No not really; I do not want the UV light to damage my clothing & shoes, plus it give me some much needed privacy form a front facing window.  

Shortly after the closet was painted my friend Mark Rinn shot a movie at my house and my big empty white closet was featured as a safe room. - lol

I found these two book shelves in one of the attics, cool thing about old houses, you often find neat things that were left behind. They will work great stacked for a temporary solution for the "Wall-O-Shoes" until a proper shelf can be made.