Son's Bedroom Closet Makeover

This one is a long post. 

My Son's room is the smallest bedroom of all the 4 bed rooms, so his closet is also small comparatively. We had kept two bookshelves in the closet as a temporary arrangement (which lasted for good two years)  along with the builder provided one long shelf with the rod. His closet was bursting with his clothes, toys and books. Like any tween, he started using ‘No space’ as the excuse for an un-kept room. 

we started looking at the various closet making companies, didn’t want to try Ikea as closet needed to be really strong to endure the teenager’s (then 11 yr olds) (mis) handling. Quotes we got were much higher than we expected, so we decided to take matters in our own hands (literally). 

Here is how it looked before ( couldn't find the one original ) and after :)

My son’s (ok, ok….my) requirements :) for the closets were

• Lots of Hanger Space
• Lots of shelves to store the out grown clothes (to be donated) and board games
• Easily accessible books
• Drawers to hide all his paperwork 
• Drawer for the dirty laundry (bottom drawer which is big has removable laundry bag)

While Hubby dear worked on the specifications for the closet to make use of every inch, I started to take down the single shelf provided by the builder (this was reused in the same closet, you will find the details below) and the baseboard in the closet. 

Here is how it looked during the process. I like the white background so decided to not to paint ;) lol...read it as..I was soo excited with closet building that I even forgot to paint behind :) ( I know… I know… I am little crazy, little weirdo)  

 

With angled top shelf (middle one in the above pic), we could increase the height of the closet and also put the big items on the top shelf easily. The builder provided shelf  was reused as the top shelf. Third one in above picture is before we built the drawers. 

I wanted to buy the dresser and put it in that space but he wanted to build it. This was little tedious task as the bottom of the drawer should be strong enough to hold the weight of things inside.  Also requires lots of patience.

Here is another After picture.

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