So today, my sweet, wonderful, amazing, fabulous, hubby broke out my Christmas present and said I could have it early. (Ok, sheesh, that's a lie. I saw a debit on our checking account, tried to play dumb like I didn't know what it was, he knew I was on to him, so he let me have it early. But all the nice adjectives describing him are the God-honest truth!) Squeals! I love my new laptop! I'm blogging again!!!
So do you wanna see what I've been up to? I don't have too many pics to show you, since I thought it was going to be for. ev. uh. before I could blog again. I did a few projects without taking any. Gasp! But there have been a few things going on that I can show you. I can only take credit for one, though.
First, my daughter's bedroom closet drives me insane, like, everyday! We organize and re-organize and do the fling boogie thing that Fly Lady recommends, but she just has TOO much! I honestly do not know where it all comes from! I should have taken the before picture with all her junk in there so you could get the full effect. But here's a shot after about 95% had been removed.
She had one clothing rod and one shelf and the rest was just a bunch of wasted space. It's not a bad size closet, but we needed it to work! So I went to Lowe's and bought a nice little closet system and enlisted the help of my incredibly amazing son to install it. Below is not the finished product because I took the picture before we put all her stuff in. But I am loving it! It was so easy to do.
Next, we went to work on the master closet. Only, that was a project I knew I couldn't handle, so we called in the professionals. Our closet is probably the tiniest closet ever built for two people. (Disclaimer: I don't mean to sound like a complainer. I realize that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who don't even need closets because they don't even own rags to wear. Their children are starving and they need clean water. I pray for those people daily and my husband and I support charities that are working to effect change! I am so thankful for the many blessings that we, as Americans, almost always take for granted.)
That being said, we "stole" our son's closet from him to make ours bigger. His bedroom is actually the formal living room, which didn't have any storage space, so he was using this hall closet. (Can you say old house?) We are buying him a wardrobe for his room instead. So here is the pic of his I-only-use-this-when-mom-makes-me-hang-my-clothes-up-closet:
Seriously, 14 year old boys do not value space whatsoever. He could care less that we took it from him.
Here is my "roomy" side of the master closet before:
And here is hubby's side:
No, that nice white tank top isn't his, my stuff began to migrate, ok?
Once the contractors busted through my sweet son's closet, we had one long space that looked like this:
They put a wall in place of the door like this:
Then I got to add some new decor to our hallway:
Ignore the brown paper and painter's tape people, construction is still in progress! And by the way, you will never, ever in a million years guess how much I paid for that 7 foot mirror (which the contractors need to mount for me). Did you guess? $59!! That's no typo. Got it at the Home Depot for exactly that much. It wasn't broken or scratched or beat up or missing anything anywhere. That was just the awesome stinkin price. Can you believe that?? How could I leave it at the store when I had a bare wall begging for something to be hung on it?
Ok, back to the closet. So in our bedroom they took out the 30 in. door and created a 4 ft. opening like this:
And once all the paint was dry and the shelves were hung and the doors were up, hubby and I got to put our clothes in this!
Sing with me "Laaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!"
That, my friends, is a picture of my side of the new closet. Hubby has a side that looks identical. I can't even believe how great it turned out. I'm so excited to have so much room to store all our extra sheets, pillows, or whatever else. Plus, looks like I have room for some new clothes! And I do realize that by today's standards, this is still a tiny master closet. But for a home built in 1969, this is some pretty sweet space!
We're almost done. Next are two pics of our shower, which, SIX years ago had a leak. Again, not a typo. First hubby said he was going to fix it himself, so he busted up about 10 tiles before he decided that was enough. Then we had my sister-in-law come and take a look because she's done some tile at her house, but we found there was a floor pan issue. Then we had a hurricane (and even if you don't live in Texas, I'm sure you saw the mass exodus from Houston on TV.) The aftermath wasn't so bad for us, but there was still damage and the shower got put on the back burner. Then we had illness, then - sheesh - I'm getting bored just typing it. So I'm skipping over the rest of my excuses. We procrastinated, ok?
The contractor guys are too fast, so I didn't get a before picture with all the tile we still had in there that needed to come out. But here is one with our new can light that they installed and the ceiling that they raised two feet so my
And here is what they did today. I just love the subway tile and the octagon pattern on the floor. I can't wait for it to be finished! By the way, do you think the ladder and painter's tape mean I shouldn't go in there? I wonder if the contractors were trying to hint since I kept coming in to check on them and see if I could snap more pics. Ha ha!
Ok well that's all for now. More to come soon. Especially now that I actually have a way to access, post, and edit my blog!
Thanks for visiting, and Happy Homemaking!
