Well, another weekend has passed and I haven’t prepared and painted the closet yet. But that doesn’t mean that I have not done a lot of necessary work! I spent the weekend to add two of the cabinet sections not only to add the last two shelves, but also to absorb the ten shelves in the two cupboards that flank the door to the closet.
I originally planned to add the two cupboards to flank the door so that I had a closed storage space in the room. But after I thought about and saw what these two sections looked like with the open shelves, I decided to do without the closet doors and leave these sections open. I preferred the coherent look of opening all the walls of the walls. I will have all my necessary drawer stores on the middle island.
Since I planned to add these cupboards in insertion doors, I cut out the original shelves and installed them so that they lean back from the front of the closet. As soon as the front ornamental plant was installed on the shelves, they sat directly behind the front of the cupboards and left just enough space for Inset barrel doors. You can see what I mean in these pictures …
However, the front cladding on the rest of the shelves in the room is flush with the cladding on the front of the cupboards. Now that I decided to leave the doors from these two cupboards from the intention, I had to find out how I could bring this front to these ten shelves so that they were also sitting flush with the front cladding on the cupboards. Under no circumstances can I let off the doors from these cupboards and make them look completely different from the remains of the cupboards.
At first I thought I could simply remove the front decorative pieces, add a plywood extension to the shelves and then repeat the cladding. This plan did not work. Even if I had used a lot of wood fillers to fill the joint between the main shelf and the plywood extension, and then sanded them as smoothly as possible, I feared that it would still be obvious that these extensions were there. I didn’t want this type of “make-do” to be subsequently built in my custom, which was built by a wardrobe.
I finally decided that the only way I would get this clean look that I want would be to cut all new plywood for these ten shelves. So I did that. I removed all ten shelves, cut new plywood for this shelves and then had to fill them and grind them smoothly before I could add them to the cupboards. (As a reminder, I used a lower plywood quality in this entire cabinet to save money so that some of the pieces are somehow rough and need wood fillers and a lot of grinding to make them smooth.)
And then I decided to cut all the new front panels instead of using the pieces that I had removed because I somehow emitted some of these pieces when I removed the edges.
Anyway, this whole process recorded my whole Saturday, but I installed all ten new shelves, shortened and filled wood. They still have to be sanded, but here is what these end cabinets look like now.
You now have shelves that correspond to the rest of the shelves in the closet, with the front of the shelves sitting flush with the cabinet cladding.
It was a lot of work to repeat all of this, but it is important for me to do it right. I never want my projects to look like obvious DIY projects, and I think it is important to do it right to get a professional finished look. Believe me, I haven’t done it want Repeat all of this. I had hoped that I could either live with the Inset shelves or a abbreviation, but I knew that I would never be satisfied if I looked like this shorter shelves that looked different from all other shelves. And links in a custom closet that I build from scratch did not do me well. If I want to take the trouble to build a custom, built -up wardrobe, I want it to be done right. No abbreviations.
I also installed the other two shelves that I had to add. I added the middle shelf to separate the two bars where I would hang shirts. The piece of plywood had an obvious arch when I installed it, so I set two weights overnight (a total of £ 45) to remove this sheet.
This is the only shelf in the entire room with which I had this problem. A few others had light arches after I had installed them, but these were slightly aligned as soon as I added the front of the tip. But this was unusually persistent, so it required weights overnight. The weights took care of the problem.
And finally I installed the lower shelf on the opposite wall …
I actually installed this twice. For the first time I had it four inches higher, so it was even with the lower shelves in the two sections on both sides. But the section directly above this shelf will be my necklace storage, and I doubted that I had left enough space for the necklaces. So I removed the shelf, lowered it four inches and reinstalled it.
While I did a lot of work this weekend, it wasn’t exactly the work I wanted to do. I am so excited to see color on this cupboards, but I can’t rush the process. The good news is that I only have to add one shelf. The last remaining shelf that has to be added is the glass-top shelf that covers my earring/ring drawer, but I don’t want to start building until I have this piece with temperature in my hand. It should arrive tomorrow. As soon as this arrives here, I can add the frame pieces and the front pull piece for this shelf, and then the entire building is officially done for the wall cabinets.
Every big project tends to have a point at which I have to take a few steps back before I can go forward again. That’s what things went this weekend, but I’m so happy that I took the time to repeat this shelves and ensure that they correspond to the rest of the room. Now they deliberately look as if they were open shelves right from the start, instead of looking like a subsequent thought.
This is what the whole room looks like on this point …
It arrives there, all of you! I am officially working on this project in my fifth week, and although it is lower than I hoped for it, I am so incredibly excited about how it develops. There is nothing better than looking at something like that and knowing this pride that I built everything with my own two hands. It would have been so much easier to use IKEA PAX wardrobes to create my closet, but it wouldn’t have been the same. You wouldn’t have fit the room either, and I wouldn’t have the same feeling: “I did it!” When I looked at the closet. From the beginning, this is my own creation and all my own work. And I’m so close to painting!
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