The Closet

Ah, my friends, and now we have entered the final post of this phase of the remodeling project. I am afraid that, at least at this point in time, I have no other news to share, no other photos, comments, witty interludes, alas, for those times have not yet come, as this is the progress we have made to date.

The problem here is that we had a useless closet (again, my apologies for the lack of pre-photos) with one high shelf that went all the way around the closet and two hanging bars that went one side to the other. No other shelving, no drawers, no clever double hangers. And the best part about it all was that the shelving was installed into the drywall, not into the studs. I am not even sure that drywall anchors were used, so the shelving all sagged at precarious angles and everything stored on top of the shelf would come tumbling down if a door was slammed or, as we are in California, an earthquake were to strike. So, it all had to go.

The first task was to fix the holes with drywall patches, tape, and a couple of layers of joint compound. SPF managed most of this before we went to Canada. Upon our return, we completed the afore-blogged tasks, which brought us to the point of texturing the walls. In this image, SPF is in the process of knocking down the orange peel texture to create the appropriate matching texture for the rest of the walls.


After the texture had been applied and knocked down, we had to let it dry, which took longer than either one of us anticipated. We were, however, busy with other tasks, so that didn't really matter. Once it was ready, though, I began the process of priming the walls with the deep gray primer to take the dark paint that we had chosen for the space.


Here I am, priming away. You can see on the right the aforementioned electrical box. This should give you a sense of where the closet butts up into the shower room, as the back of this box was eventually covered with two layers of concrete board. You can also see evidence of the texturing spray that SPF did, just in case you didn't believe he was that amazing.


All primed and ready to go!


The up close image of the plastic sheet over the electrical box, the taping, the texturing, and the priming.


At this point SPF went back to his day job and I was left with the duty of painting the closet with the same Antique Photograph paint that we had used in the shower room. We bought more, but it turns out that was a mistake because I was able to do two full coats with the remainder of the gallon that we had previously purchased. Sorry that there are no intermediate stage photos on this part, I was covered in paint.


Similar image above, but this one is painted as well!


I hope to return in a week to give you a new update. I am not even entirely sure what it is we will be doing next. We do need to investigate getting new closet shelving and fixtures, but I am not sure if we are going to go through California Closets or what. We did, however, order a custom door for this space to keep the cats out. They had a tendency to pee on offensive items in the closet in the past. The problem is, I don't really know what a cat finds offensive, so we couldn't remedy the problem. Answer: door.