Bedroom Closets
So, when you build your own house and do a lot of the work yourself, sometimes things get left to do for later after you move in. Like... closets. The past two weekends were spent building closets. We built three. We still have two more to do on the main floor but that is for another day.
We built the inside of Brian's closet soon after we moved in as he needed to have his work shirts hung. We learned a lot from that build, and tried something different when we did the mudroom closet.
Then years later after living out of laundry baskets for way too long, came the great bedroom closet build. First we did Hadley's closet, then Easton's, and then mine. None of them are fancy, they all just have a shelf and a pole for hanging clothes, but they are all functioning. This is HUGE! At first I had dreams of all kinds of fun shelving, which may still happen one day, but life happens and well, after years of doing without a closet, I am happy to have a shelf and a pole.
I spent much of the weekend cleaning out closets and while most of the stuff went back in, there were boxes from each closet that I still have to go through. Easton has one box left, Hadley has about three, and I have four. Fun fact... I had a small box of clothes that I fit before I had Hadley that were in my closet... now, they fit Hadley and I just moved them to her closet. I had a box that was perfectly her size. This includes fun shirts with Fragle Rock on it and a cabbage patch shirt to name a few. I have one more box of clothes the that are a little bigger and will likely fit her in the next few years.
Cleaning out a closet is a lot of work! However, I am happy to say that the stuff that is back in the closets are organized!
I think it will take me some time to work my way through the other boxes, but I will get there.