C.O.P. – I Have A Shoe Closet! (A Fast, Straightforward, and Very Satisfying Group Challenge)

It’s been fairly a very long time since I’ve finished a C.O.P. undertaking (cleansing, organizing, purging). However in the previous few days, my persistence ran out with my closet state of affairs in our bed room. Proper now, Matt and I exploit the visitor bed room as our fundamental bed room, and we’ll proceed to try this till we construct our addition. That addition can have a a lot larger bed room with a big walk-in closet, and one other smaller closet.

I constructed these closets figuring out that we’d be utilizing this bed room briefly as our fundamental bed room, and I simply assumed that Matt would get one closet, and I’d get the opposite one. However Matt doesn’t really want a whole closet for himself. In actual fact, he doesn’t want a closet in any respect.

Since Matt has M.S., and was homebound for over a decade, he didn’t want a wide range of garments and sneakers. And even now, he nonetheless doesn’t. Matt wears very comfy garments, and he solely has one pair of sneakers that he can tolerate being on his ft. So all of his garments can match within the dresser within the bed room.

However for some motive, after I realized that Matt wouldn’t want a closet, I didn’t take over the opposite closet for my stuff. As an alternative, I used it to retailer issues just like the comforter that we use within the winter, the quilt and huge ornamental pillows that go on the mattress on this room, and plenty of different issues that don’t really want to remain on this room.

And since I used to be making an attempt to drive myself to make use of one small-ish closet, this was my shoe state of affairs…

There’s no approach all of my sneakers would match contained in the closet together with my garments, so I’d line up the remainder of my sneakers neatly exterior the closet. However that neat lineup would solely final just a few days earlier than my sneakers would find yourself in a mound like this. And simply think about making an attempt to step over and thru that mound with a view to open the closet and select an outfit or put garments away!

So on Monday, I needed to go to Lowe’s to select up some issues for the studio, and I made a decision to take a stroll down the shelf and closet group aisle to see if they’d any small cabinets that I might use below the TV within the studio. And whereas I used to be on that aisle, I bought impressed to go forward and buy what I wanted to prepare that different closet. I didn’t need something costly or elaborate, so I discovered a quite simple closet group answer that may work inside this closet to create a shoe closet.

So final evening, I made a decision to take a few hours and resolve my shoe storage drawback. I began by clearing out every part from this closet in order that I used to be left with nothing however an empty field..

I began by including these two Closetmaid ShelfTrack steel tracks for adjustable shelving. Since I used to be screwing these onto a strong plywood backing, this course of took about 5 minutes. The tracks are available varied lengths, and these 84-inch tracks have been excellent for my closet.

These shelf brackets slip into the notches on the tracks, so the cabinets are absolutely adjustable to any peak wanted.

For the precise cabinets, I made a decision to not use the Closetmaid wire cabinets which can be made to go together with the ShelfTrack system as a result of I don’t actually like wire cabinets, and I figured I might discover one thing cheaper.

I ended up utilizing stair treads! I used to be fairly enthusiastic about discovering this feature. Not solely are they one of many least expensive choices (cheaper than 1″ x 12″ x 8-foot lumber, cheaper than pre-primed MDF, and so on.), however they’re thicker than most traditional lumber. The stair treads are literally one inch thick, whereas commonplace lumber known as 1-inch, nevertheless it’s truly three-quarter inch thick. These stair treads even have a pleasant bullnose on the entrance edge which I feel appears to be like very nice.

So I purchased seven stair treads, reduce them to size with my miter noticed to suit contained in the closet on the brackets, after which sanded them earlier than placing them within the closet. As a result of I wished to get this undertaking completed shortly, I opted to not stain or paint the cabinets. I didn’t clear coat them, both, however I’ll find yourself doing that later. For now I simply wanted to get this finished shortly in order that I might get my sneakers organized and out of the way in which. I’m so ridiculously enthusiastic about this shoe closet.

I ended up being one shelf quick, which is why the underside of the closet appears to be like a bit cluttered. I have to get yet another stair tread and make room for yet another shelf in order that these sneakers at present occupied the center a part of the underside of the closet can have their very own shelf.

Within the strategy of organizing, I ended up eliminating six pairs of sneakers that I don’t put on anymore. So this was not solely an organizing undertaking, but in addition a purging undertaking! I’m so excited to have this taken care of now. And when Matt and I are completed utilizing this room as our fundamental bed room, the cabinets are fully adjustable, so I’ll have the ability to retailer something I need to on this closet.

That is a type of organizing initiatives that appears insignificant. I imply, it’s only a shoe closet. And but, going from this earlier than to this after can have a big impact on my life.

With the ability to stand in entrance of that different closet to place garments away or select an outfit with out having to stumble over sneakers goes to be a dramatic enchancment in the way in which I exploit these closets, and will certainly enhance my temper when I’ve to get able to go someplace. I can’t consider how fast ship simple this undertaking was, and I can’t consider I put it off so lengthy!!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.